Community Safety Officer WCC618839

As a Community Safety Officer, you can make your own powerful contribution by making Westminster as safe as it can possibly be. In particular, you'll focus on activities to tackle violence against women and girls.

Our Community Safety Partnership impacts on every resident, at every stage of their lives. We want people to be born into a borough that is safe and supportive, and to then go through life confident in the knowledge that they are living in a truly exceptional neighbourhood. We want people to feel free to be themselves, and to achieve everything they want to achieve. And with the support of Community Safety Managers as you deliver a range of fulfilling activities, you will be central to helping us achieve this vision.

At the heart of your work will be a number of vital priorities. You'll play a key role in developing our partnership response to ending domestic abuse and violence against women and girls. This will range from awareness-raising campaigns, through to specialist services to support survivors. You'll be responsible for overseeing every action the partnership takes to prevent violence and abuse.

Through a blend of project management, commissioning services and building relationships with our partners, you'll actively work to make Westminster a safer place. Along the way, you'll contribute to a range of other Community Safety priorities. These will include making the West End a safer place for visitors, residents and businesses; tackling violence and exploitation, including serious youth violence; and creating safer, more confident neighbourhoods.

You will help us develop and deliver community safety projects, nurturing initiatives from first concept through to getting them up and running and then evaluating their success. This will include building relationships with relevant partners (such as other teams in the local authority, external providers and voluntary and community organisations) and you will prepare and present reports at events, meetings and working groups. Maintaining oversight of commissioned activities, we will expect you to ensure targets and designated goals are being achieved, and you will provide performance reporting to funders.

Putting a community safety perspective at the heart of everything you do, this is a great opportunity to have a tangible impact on our local community and visitors to the area.

With the chance to contribute to significant partnerships and present your opinions to the relevant boards, this is a career-defining opportunity to establish yourself as one of our go-to experts for community safety! Naturally, we are keen to recruit an individual with experience of working to tackle violence against women and girls. If this isn't an area where you have professional experience, you'll certainly be able to demonstrate a passion for this important mission.

To be equal to the role, you will have great project management or policy skills, with the ability to build bonds between internal and external organisations. Strong verbal and written communication skills will be important, and you will enjoy analysing information to identify where improvements could be made. Comfortable working with everyone from local residents through to board-level colleagues, you will ideally have some knowledge of community safety. This will include an understanding of the issues faced by local government, with an awareness of the legal, financial and political side of public sector management. With good IT skills, you will need to have a well-developed knowledge of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. Crucially, you will share our determination to champion the value of a diverse and inclusive workforce and community.

THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF HAYLEA'S UNBEATABLE SPIRIT

Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories. Where people use their optimism and talent to achieve more than anyone thought possible.

Nobody personifies this more than Haylea Navarro. Born with cerebral palsy and paralysed down one side since birth, Haylea has been gleefully proving people wrong ever since. Now a project officer, she brings faster broadband connectivity to Westminster businesses, boosting the economy for all. Throw in her gong at the 2020 London Apprenticeship Awards, and it's clear for all to see just what can happen when you never give in., Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster. Westminster City Council's strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster. A Fairer Westminster is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city's future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.

At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visit https://www.westminster.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/public-health-strategy-policies-and-reports/equality-duties

As a forward-thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.