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SalaryCritical Incident Community Response Coordinator
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Full-time; 35 hours per week; Until 31/03/2025, with potential for further extension (subject to funding)
Location: The Woolwich Centre, Wellington Street, SE18 6HQ with potential for some home-based working
We need a versatile and enthusiastic officer to join our Safer Communities team to drive a range of activities in response to violent incidents that have a high impact on local communities. You will identify who has been affected (e.g. witnesses, at-risk demographic groups, nearby residents and workers) and establish the community’s concerns and needs.
You will then coordinate delivery of community engagement activity and the provision by partners of services targeting specific needs, to support the community to recover, build resilience and improve long-term confidence in police, council and partner services.
This is a fairly new post, enabling us to deliver more quickly to communities affected by serious violence. Your work will continue to embed the best practice delivery model across all community safety areas; providing support, visibility and reassurance in incident locations. using best practice developed from pilot locations; providing support, visibility and reassurance to developing area of work that the Safer Communities team has piloted; this new post will embed it and enable us to deliver more quickly to communities affected by serious violence. Your work will contribute to shaping the delivery model as we learn more about what works and you will have input to developing its direction.
Much of the role will depend on working successfully with partners so skills and experience in building strong partnership working are essential. Key partners will include the police, third sector services, business and community groups and social landlords.
As part of our lively and friendly Safer Communities team you will work alongside staff tackling hate crime, town centre issues, domestic abuse, modern slavery, prevention of extremism and varied crime reduction projects, giving plenty of opportunity for collaboration.
This role will give you chance to demonstrate the Council’s key staff values, especially: Taking Ownership – Doing Things Better – Working Together.
You will need experience of engaging with diverse communities, excellent communication skills and ability to work on your own initiative.
A successful DBS check will be required
For an informal discussion about this opportunity, please contact Kayleigh Thomas; kayleigh.thomas@royalgreenwich.gov.uk 07860 834469
Safer recruitment: Royal Borough of Greenwich is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. Any roles which involve working with children, young people or vulnerable adults, or roles in which the duties will involve access to sensitive information relating to children, young people or vulnerable adults, the Royal Borough will take up references prior to interview. You should provide details of referees including your current and previous employers, covering the last 5 years. Candidates can request for us not to send a reference request to their current employer prior to interview by emailing us at recruitment@royalgreenwich.gov.uk.
As part of our Safer Recruitment Policy, a full employment history is also required for this role. Please provide a full employment history, together with a satisfactory written explanation of any gaps in employment. Unless otherwise stated, a Basic DBS check will be undertaken as part of the pre-employment checks for successful candidates.
Diversity Statement: Royal Borough of Greenwich values the diversity of its community and aims to have a workforce that reflects this. We therefore encourage applications from all sections of the community.
High Volume Applications: Royal Borough of Greenwich reserves the right to close any vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date should there be a high volume of applications received.
Standard DBS: This role requires a Standard DBS. (This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act,1974).
Advert Close: All vacancies close at midnight unless otherwise stated.
Full Employment History: A full employment history is required for this role. Please provide a full employment history, together with a satisfactory written explanation of any gaps in employment.
How Applications are Scored: Each application is scored according to how well the supporting statement addresses each point on the Person Specification for the role. Candidates will be short-listed for interview on the extent to which they meet the specific points within the Person Specification. The Person Specification is supplied with the job advert. When completing your application, please use the supporting statement section to tell us how you meet each of the points on the Person Specification. We need to have this information in order to consider your application.
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