Recruitment Process
The recruitment process consists of an online application, interview and assessment. These are expected to take place on at 102 Petty France, London, SW1H 9AJ. The assessment will take place on the 18th August 2026 and the interview will take place on the 1st September 2026.
We ask you to complete an assessment as part of the recruitment process for this role. We will provide details immediately before your assessment.
Please note, you must successfully pass the assessment in order to be invited to interview.
A member of our recruitment team will be in touch with guidance. If you have any queries about this, contact [email protected]
You should keep these dates free or notify us if you're not available. We'll make every effort to accommodate your date preferences but we can't guarantee it.
Information Session
We will hold information sessions where you can ask us any queries about your application, the process, or the role. This will take place on Microsoft Teams on 21st July 2027. You must register for the session before 3pm on 20th July 2026 by emailing [email protected].
Personal statement
We ask you to complete a personal statement of no more than 1,250 words. You need to address the core behaviours for this role, which are:
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Making Effective Decisions
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Communicating and Influencing
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Delivering at Pace
You also need to demonstrate the following experience/technical skills required for this role:
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Post qualification experience
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Law Degree or Common Professional Examination.
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Legal Practice Course or Bar Vocational Course and have completed the relevant pupillage
The panel has the right to assess the lead behaviour Making effective decisions first. If the standard on this behaviour isnt met, the other behaviours wont be considered and your application wont progress. The panel also has the right to raise the minimum standard pass mark. The panel may also refer to the lead behaviour at the interview stage to determine merit order.
Interview/Assessment
We use behaviours to help us understand your experience, to see if you're a good fit for the role. You are assessed against SCP in the Civil Service success profiles behaviours framework. We are assessing 4 behaviours at interview / assessment stage:
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Making effective decisions (assessment and interview)
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Communicating and influencing (assessment and interview)
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Delivering at pace (interview only)
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Working together (interview only)
Essential Experience/Technical Skills - assessed at interview and assessment
CV
Please upload an up-to-date CV which should include:
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three years employment and/or academic history
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skills and experience
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achievements
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qualifications.
You need to attach your CV as an anonymised document of no more than two A4 pages, to provide the panel with an insight into your work history and experience. We ask that you do not provide personal details which could identify you like name, age, home address.
Its your responsibility to provide the specified application information in the requested format to ensure that youre considered for the post.
If youre unable to cover three years through employment and/or academic history, you need to provide a character reference for clearance purposes. The reference will be required at onboarding if youre offered the role.
The CV section will be used as supporting evidence, it wont be assessed
Strengths
Strengths are tested at interview stage - the strengths tested are not shared before the interview.
Other
This is a full-time post. We do consider requests for flexible, part-time working and job share, always considering the operational needs of the department.
Please note that the CPS is unable to offer visa sponsorship. Therefore, if you require visa sponsorship to work in the UK, you will not meet the eligibility criteria for this role.
Clearance
If successful, you are required to secure a Security Check clearance, for which you must have a current valid UK address.
To be cleared to Security Check clearance level, you have to be able to meet the residency requirement in the Cabinet Office guidance. For the Crown Prosecution Service, this is three years within the last five years.
If successfully appointed, we ask you to complete a character enquiry form, nationality and immigration questionnaire and national security vetting form.
If you're a Crown Prosecution Service member of staff, you wont need to do a Disclosure and Barring Service check as you already hold this clearance.
The job youre applying for is covered by Article 3(a) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975, consequently Section 4(2) of that Act doesnt apply. Youre required to disclose all previous convictions and cautions including spent convictions. Failing to make a full declaration will result in withdrawing your offer of employment if our checks reveal convictions that havent been disclosed.
Reserve list
If you're recommended by the selection panel but not appointed to the current vacancy, youre put on a reserve list for 12 months. You may be offered another Senior Crown Prosecutor post in the CPS if a vacancy comes up during this period. We may also approach candidates on the waiting list to fill other roles that require similar knowledge and experience.
Fraud check
The Crown Prosecution Service provides a Fair Processing Notice to all new applicants after theyve been successful at interview. These candidates are informed that, as one aspect of pre-employment screening, their personal details name, National Insurance number and date of birth are checked against the Internal Fraud Database. We won't employ anyone included on the database unless they can demonstrate exceptional circumstances.
The Strategic Resourcing team in the Crown Prosecution Service will, on behalf of the vacancy holder, inform applicants when they are refused employment because of their inclusion in the Internal Fraud Database.
Civil Service Commission
If youre dissatisfied with the recruitment process and wish to make a complaint, please contact [email protected] with your concerns.
If you remain dissatisfied and wish to make a further complaint, please click on the following link to the Civil Service Commission complaints page Recruitment Complaints - Civil Service Commission
Civil Service Commission Recruitment Principles can be found at https://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/recruitment/
Details of the Civil Service Nationality Rules are located at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nationality-rules
Candidates are subject to UK immigration requirements. For the most up-to-date information on the requirements of working in the UK, please go to the UK Visas and Immigration website at https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
