- Experience of working in community safety or on the areas of work this post covers (essential).
- Ability to manage multiple projects and workstreams (desirable).
- Experience of and ability to build and maintain effective partnerships with organisations, partners and agencies including statutory and community organisations (desirable).
- Knowledge of relevant legislation for Community Safety and the work of Community Safety Partnerships. (desirable).
- Ability to collect, analyse and interpret data and information to understand trends, patterns and draw conclusions (essential).
- Ability to use council and police software to upload and extract information (desirable)
- Be able to positively inform and Influence decision-making by partners at appropriate levels (desirable).
- Good written and verbal communication skills including the ability to present at meetings and write reports / briefings (essential).
- Understanding of the local government context, the role of elected members and officers, and politically aware (essential).
- Organised and confident self-starter, able to adapt and think creatively (essential).
- A team player (essential). Our Offer To You
- Generous annual leave entitlement plus bank holidays (pro-rata if part-time working hours apply)
- Flexi-time (Please note, this applies to roles at grades 1-9 only)
- Three volunteering days per year in Sutton
- Comprehensive learning and development programme
- Local and national discounts for shopping, eating out and leisure activities
- Interest free season ticket loans
- Local Government Pension Scheme
- Car parking scheme
- Bicycle loan facilities and cycle to work scheme
- Zip car scheme
- Free eye tests and contribution towards glasses
- Confidential wellbeing and counselling support
- Subsidised gym membership
Community Safety Officer - Sutton, United Kingdom - London Borough of Sutton
Description
About the Role
This role focuses on working in partnership with the community to identify outcomes and then to work with third parties and the community itself to design and commission services to best meet the needs of the citizens and communities in Sutton.
In order to achieve outcomes, this role is required to work collaboratively with others, the most common example being commissioning staff that will monitor local partner activity in order to ensure the delivery of high quality results.
At the lower levels, this role will undertake specific commissioning for discrete services. At the higher level, these roles set commissioning outcomes across a broad range of thematic services.
The Community Safety Officer will be part of a team of Community Safety Officers who work across a range of community safety issues in Sutton. Individuals may have particular areas of focus or work across a range of issues. These include but are not limited to:
Violence against women and girls and domestic abuse
Hate crime
Prevent and counter-terrorism
Integrated Offender Management (IOM)
Anti-social behaviour
Serious violence
Gangs
And other crime types that over time become an issue in Sutton
The Council's community safety team is dual based at Sutton Police Station / Sutton Civic Offices and this role will involve working closely with the Police and other partners and agencies to improve outcomes for residents.
About YouWe would like you to have:
As an organisation that values and nurtures talent, we're committed to helping you fulfil your potential and will offer you a supportive, friendly and collaborative environment to grow and develop your career and skills. We're constantly striving to improve our ways of working so putting your ideas across - however big or small - will be fully encouraged and supported by your colleagues and our dynamic and experienced management team.
In addition, we offer a modern and flexible working environment for our staff, supported by our IT infrastructure, including Google Chromebooks and Google Apps. Our Flexible Working - Smarter Working Scheme embraces new ways of working. It provides improved work life balance for our staff as it allows staff to work from a variety of locations and staff are not required to work within the office 5 days a week.
Employees have access to a wide range of benefits, some of which include: