Community Safety Assistant

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Community Safety Team for a Community Safety Assistant.

The Role

To provide support to the Community Safety Team. To provide administrative support, gather information and monitor partnership activity for a range of Safer Communities’ projects. To assist in the delivery of partnership events and projects.

The Community Safety Partnership (CSP) changes the key priorities every year to meet the needs of the community. The CSP then put together an action plan to look at how the work achieved matches the priorities.

The Community Safety Partnership (CSP) has identified three key priorities:

Tackling ASB and the Root Causes

Identifying and supporting repeat and vulnerable victims. Identify hotspot locations and / or increases in ASB trends. Anti-Social Behaviour affects families and communities and by addressing these activities we can help improve the quality of life in the community. Improve perceptions and facilitate local problem solving to address issues.

High Harm Violence

Domestic abuse, sexual offences including rape, CSE, gang related violence, hate crime, cyber bullying / grooming, serious organised crime to include modern day slavery, human trafficking and violent extremism with a specific emphasis on tackling the root causes of domestic abuse and reporting of hate crime.

Reducing violence and knife crime

Identifying hotspot locations, and / or increases in crime trends. Work with partner agencies to raise awareness of knife crime across the district. The fear of crime, whether real or perceived, can also have a very serious impact upon people and communities. With a specific emphasis on county lines, violence with injury and drug / alcohol related violence.

For more details, please see the attached job description and person specification.