Community Safety Manager - Castle Point Borough Council

Community Safety Manager - Castle Point Borough Council

Castle Point Borough Council

Permanent, Full Time

Grade 9 SCP 37-41 (£45,441-£49,498)

Location: Benfleet

Closing Date: 20th October 2024

Why Castle Point? Castle Point Borough Council is a statutory body responsible for employing nearly 350 staff, and delivering over 150 council services, both statutory and for the community's well-being and benefit. Castle Point Borough Council aims to provide high-quality and financially sustainable services while prioritising outstanding customer service, transparency in decision-making, and promoting local democracy. Additionally, the council seeks to transform, modernize, and improve its performance, as well as support and enable the communities within its jurisdiction to be strong, healthy, and thriving.

Our values: Trust, Respect, Improving and Learning, and Customer Focus

The Opportunity

This newly created opportunity, working within the Housing, Health & Partnerships Services will involve managing the community's safety to ensure all of the Council's statutory requirements are met in line with the Safeguarding of Children and Vulnerable Adults.

Accountabilities

• Manage the day-to-day functions of the Council's Community Safety and Safeguarding workstreams.
• Assist in the development and implementation of Service Plans and Highlight/Exception reports which embed community safety as a corporate priority.
• Lead in Castle Point Borough Council's Community Safety Strategic Assessment, development of the Community Safety Strategy and setting of the Community Safety Priorities to reduce in borough crime and disorder.
• Act as lead for all Serious Case Reviews, ASB Case Reviews and complaints in relation to Community Safety and Safeguarding.
• Also act as the lead in relation to Community Safety engagement/enforcement projects - such as, PSPO's, Joint partnership days of action, community engagement events.
• To contribute to achieving the Council's corporate objectives and priorities and the agenda for achieving continuous improvement in service delivery and any external performance assessments.

The Experience You Will Bring

To be successful in this role you must:

• Have a creative talent, coming up with new ideas yourself and with others and you are willing and able to adjust to new demands and changing situations.
• Be a good listener and display a sound understanding of equality issues, respecting and valuing individuals' diversity and the variety of their contribution.
• Be able to access and communicate with others through the competent use of information technology.
• Carry out appropriate research and consider various options prior to writing a service specification, letting a contract, monitoring the performance of a contractor against the specification, and taking corrective action.
• Possess, or are studying for, qualifications relevant to the competent performance of the job or have the necessary experience: risk management, health and safety and welfare.

Castle Point Borough Council is proud to be a disability confident Leader. We're committed to interview all disabled applicants if they meet the minimum requirements of the job. We're also committed to interview all veterans and care leavers, who meet the minimum requirements of the role for which they are applying. Please speak to our Recruiters if you require any reasonable adjustments during the process.

Castle Point Borough Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.

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