Grade H, scp27 £37,035 to scp31 £40,476, plus essential car user allowance
Permanent
Essential Requirements current full valid driving licence
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The Role
Do you want to make a difference and help achieve safer communities?
We are looking to recruit a forward thinking and committed Community Safety Officer (Communities & Anti-social Behaviour) to join a dynamic and experienced Community Safety Team. The post will play a vital role in how the council works with stakeholders to respond to community safety issues. Key areas of focus for this role include the following.
Providing a proactive and victim focussed anti-social behaviour service, ensuring a high level of presence and interventions in our communities. The role also includes providing preventative measures to help tackle and reduce harm that is caused by anti-social behaviour.
You will work with other agencies to ensure the best outcome is achieved, so you’ll be a great communicator and influencer and happy to engage at all levels. You will coordinate and lead on multi-agency responses and influence decisions to tackle crime and disorder issues. This will involve ensuring the effective development and delivery of a multi-agency strategy with the aim of preventing and tackling anti-social behaviour (ASB). Support effective coordination of the ASB Case Review process.
Duties include Investigating reported incidents of anti-social behaviour, develop and co-ordinate the multi-agency response and agree interventions, initiating enforcement tools and powers where necessary, identify risk and vulnerability and ensure victims are referred into appropriate support provision, where available. Interviewing complainants experiencing antisocial behaviour at the earliest possible stage to secure relevant evidence and to take statements of that evidence, including wider community engagement in neighbourhoods, e.g. street surgeries.
You will be required to attend, and provide evidence, at Court, as necessary, with your own hearsay statements and as a professional witness to antisocial behaviour and crime which you have witnessed personally.
About You
As a motivated and dedicated officer with demonstrable experience of dealing with both low level and complex anti-social behaviour casework, you will:
Be an effective communicator with excellent interpersonal and relationship building skills.
Have a pragmatic and flexible approach in all aspects of your work.
Have a problem-solving approach to addressing anti-social behaviour.
You’ll have previous experience/knowledge of tackling anti-social behaviour within the community and knowledge of the role of local government, and multi-agency working with partners like the police and the social housing sector. Your ‘can-do’ approach will help you to achieve the right outcomes.
You will be adaptable in your style, happy to work flexibly to meet the needs of our customers and positive in your approach. You’ll have strong administration skills, an attention to detail and previous experience in using system databases.
The role will require travel, so you will need a full clean driving licence and access to a vehicle for work.
About Us
This is your opportunity to join us at an exciting time as we have strong ambitions for the borough.
Bolton is a great place to work. We are a welcoming organisation that wants to contribute to a place where people feel active, connected and prosperous. We are passionate about improving the outcomes and experience of Bolton people. We want Bolton to be a vibrant place built on strong cohesive communities, successful businesses and healthy, engaged residents.
As an employer we want to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment, by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits, including discounts and exclusive gym membership prices and salary sacrifice schemes. In addition, we offer a generous annual leave allowance, flexible work opportunities, access to a Pension Scheme, as well as a range of employee wellbeing and support services.
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Ready to apply? Then please click Apply and upload your anonymised CV and covering letter discussing your relevant skills and experience and explain how you believe they make you a strong fit for this role.
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We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An Enhanced DBS with check of relevant barred list is therefore required for this post.
This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English as per the person specification.
This organisation has signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. That means we will recognise your continuous or ‘unbroken’ service in any Greater Manchester local authority or NHS organisation that has signed the commitment, Transport for Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service or Greater Manchester Combined Authority, giving you access to our service-related benefits. Please see the home page of greater.jobs for more information.
For more information about working for Bolton Council, please see greater.jobs; for advice and support with your application, contact recruitment@bolton.gov.uk