Positive Employment is currently recruiting for a Community Safety Officer for our client local government organisation based in Brent.
The successful candidate will coordinate the activity of various partners and interventions to ensure that services are delivered effectively and communities protected from violence and vulnerabilities.
Support the Community Safety Manager with the Safer Brent Partnership (SBP) Priorities to reduce violence and vulnerability priorities, relating specially to Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) as well as gangs, serious violence, knife crime issues and related crimes, also other relevant priorities of the partnership which may emerge.
This is a 3 month starting contract with the possibility to extend. Hybrid working is available.
Duties and Responsibilities but not limited to:
- Working with the key stakeholders, namely: Police, Voluntary sector services, Probation (NPS, CRCs), Health Economy, Children's and Adult Social Care, Housing etc. to ensure the ongoing growth and development of Brent's VAWG, criminal exploitation and gang related priorities.
- Working with the key stakeholders and community leaders to continually monitor and assess local need and assess gaps in V&V provision.
- Liaising with Criminal Justice partners (Police, Courts, and Prisons) to ensure that robust and holistic action is taken to reduce offending relating to violence and vulnerablity related crimes, including VAWG and gang crimes and increase conviction rates for offenders.
- With support form the Community Safety Manager, coordinating, implementing and monitoring the violence and vulnerablity priority strategies and action plans.
- Coordinating the strategic delivery groups ensuring effective governance for the violence and vulnerablity issues, ensuring appropriate strategic direction is taken working collaboratively with the group chairs.
- Ensuring an annual review of the strategic assessment of borough violence and vulnerablity issues to help inform appropriate support and interventions; helping to address service and intervention gaps through effective commissioning.
- Coordinating effective cross departmental commissioning options for shared priorities.
- Identifying and working with intervention providers to ensure adequate service provision is provided using effective project/contract management.
- Commissioning a range of services for priority violence and vulnerablity related crimes, through the management and administration of the Community Safety Team violence and vulnerability budget.
- The preparation and planning for new commissions including tendering out for services where required to support the community safety manager, to ensure that a coordinated package of effective interventions and initiatives are in place.
Personal Requirements:
- Educated to equivalent of degree level or other relevant professional qualification.
- A degree or relevant professional qualification in criminology, criminal justice, social work, probation or any similar complimentary community safety subject area (Desirable).
- Understanding factors leading to violence and vulnerability related crime and influencing factors affecting offending and victimisation.
- Proven experience of working in and leading a multi-agency setting.
- Working knowledge of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 and other relevant legislation.
- Good working knowledge of current issues in criminal justice related to the VAWG agenda, including domestic abuse and other harmful practises (including knowledge of the MARAC).
- Good working knowledge of current issues in criminal justice related to gang and knife related crimes, including the link of girls and gangs, exploitation and county lines.
- Experience of managing a budget including grant allocations.
Working Hours: 09:00am - 17:00pm, Monday - Friday
Pay: £33.59 p/h
Please note this role is within the scope of IR35.