Senior Community Safety Co-ordinator

Vacancy Description Title

Senior Community Safety Co-ordinator

Service Area/School

Place - Neighbourhoods

About Us

Bexley is an outer London Borough with the best of both worlds, located between the hustle and bustle of London and the Garden of England, Kent. Within the borough we have award winning parks, open spaces and listed heritage sites.

The Community Safety Services Team is located within Communities Department. They have the responsibility of providing a multi-agency approach to reduce crime, disorder and anti-social behavior across Bexley and coordinating the Community Safety Strategy and delivery plan.

Community Safety brings together the relevant statutory Partners of the borough who have a responsibility for this work which includes London Borough of Bexley, Metropolitan Police, National Probation Service, London Fire Brigade and Health along with voluntary organisations and other key local authority based services who come together to develop plans and strategies to reduce crime, disorder and anti-social behavior.

About The Role

We currently have a vacancy for a 12 month fixed term contract for the Senior Community Safety Co-ordinator post which is responsible for overseeing and implementing the operational delivery. The post will sit within Community Safety Services and will be managed by the Community Services Manager. The post will lead on the implementation of our operational response which will include Serious Violence, Anti Social Behaviour, Prevent and Integrated Offender Management.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the busy community safety team. You will need to have experience of working within a multi agency setting and will need full understanding of both children’s and adults safeguarding processes and procedures. The postholder would need to have experience managing staff and understanding of ASB and Serious Violence duties.

Some evening and weekend attendance may be required.

We will offer you in return a package that includes a competitive salary, an excellent pension scheme and generous annual leave plus bank holidays. For more information on the benefits package on offer please refer to the Candidate Information document attached.

We reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date.

Candidate Profile

This Role Will Include

• Overseeing casework ensuring an appropriate response providing both support and enforcement where necessary.
• Overseeing the relevant action plans and delivery groups in response to BCSP priority areas.
• Raising awareness of the Operational multi agency meetings with key partner agencies both statutory and non statutory within Bexley Community Safety Partnership.
• Direct and in direct line management of operational staff
  
  
  

For an informal discussion about the role please contact

[email protected].

This is an exciting opportunity to join the busy community safety team. You will need to have experience of working within a multi agency setting and will need full understanding of both children’s and adults safeguarding processes and procedures. The postholder would need to have experience managing staff and understanding of ASB and Serious Violence duties.

For the full list of essential and desirable criteria for this role then please refer to the Person Specification within the Job Description attached.

Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

This authority is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

This post is considered by the authority to be a customer-facing position; as such it falls within scope of the Code of Practice on English language requirement for public sector workers. The council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the JD/Person Specification. These will be applied during the recruitment/selection and probationary stages.

How To Apply

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Additional Information

As a disability confident employer Bexley welcomes applications from people with all disabilities, including hidden disabilities and mental health conditions. We will interview any disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria. If you require reasonable adjustments to be made to any part of the recruitment process due to your disability, please contact us on [email protected].

Contract Duration

12 Months

Grade

BEXLEY14

Contract Type

Fixed Term

Employment Details Contract Hours

36.00

Salary

£41,217 - £47,448 pa

Vacancy Location Location

South East, London, Bexley Civic Offices

Attachments

Job Description

Job Description Senior Community Safety Co-ordinator JD.pdf (219 Kb)

Attachment 1 Candidate Information Document.pdf (167 Kb)