SCP Support Officer (Preventing Extremism, Safer Towns and ASB)

The Service & Team:

Based within the Resilient Communities Service the Safer Cornwall Support Officer (Preventing Extremism Safer Towns and ASB) will be part of the Community Safety Team whose core purpose is to support safe healthy and resilient communities. As part of the team you will provide support over a wide range of exciting references:

Community Safety which includes:Community Safety Officers co-ordinating targeted local multi-agency prevention and response through the ten Safer Towns Partnerships; managing the core functions of Safer Cornwall (the statutory Community Safety Partnership) the front line Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB) Team working alongside the police and partners to reduce problems in towns and neighbourhoods and the Preventing Extremism and Terrorism and Serious and Organised Crime lead. The teams work also includes the delivery of targeted initiatives to reduce the harms of drugs and alcohol the commissioning of community treatment services;and the Domestic Abuse&Sexual Violence team providing targeted prevention support and response as well as commissioning the support and therapy services and safe accommodation.

The Role:

The postholder will be required to provide high quality administrative and appropriate business support to the Community Safety Team within Resilient Communities and to facilitate excellent co-ordination and co-operative working between the various teams and supporting managers across the Safer Cornwall Partnership (including Safer Towns ASB and Preventing Extremism).

This will include administrative support for multi agency partnership meetings with external parties such as scheduling meetings managing agendas maintaining minutes action logs and risk logs and supporting with the preparation of necessary reports.

The role holder will have responsibility for co ordinating a range of statutory functions aligned to the Community Safety Partnership including Safer Cornwall Management Group (and cover for the Board meetings) Safer Towns meetings Complex Needs Operational Group meetings and the Internal Contest Board.

The role holder will be responsible for setting up the strict criteria for invitation to Contest Board on a quarterly basis in line with the with the Cornwall & IOS Contest Board Guidance setting up the board invitations and associated papers.

This is a public/customer-facing role where the statutory English language requirement for public sector workers applies.

This position will be subject to a standard criminal record disclosure check.

Working Pattern:

This maternity cover post is offered for a 12 month fixed term period on a full-time basis (37 hours per week Monday to Friday). Flexible working arrangements would be considered as would a secondment (with current managers full permission).

Whilst the location/work-base for this role has been specified our evolving ways of working means that the role may be worked remotely for part of the time (e.g. from home/other locations). Certain meetings will need to be covered in person. We will discuss this with you during the recruitment process.

What youll need to succeed:

The normal duties of the role may involve travel on a regular or occasional basis. It is a condition of employment that you can exercise satisfactory travel mobility in order to fulfil the obligations of the role. You will be required to provide a suitable form of transport for those journeys where an alternative form of transport is unavailable or impracticable.

Given the nature of some of these functions the post holder could be required to review reports collate information and minute meetings that may contain distressing and sensitive material. The postholder will be required to exercise absolute confidentiality with regards to the content of the material discussed and the identity of any person/s connected to the review.

They may alsoneed to undertake Police Vetting in the future.

Please read the role profile for the full details of this role attached below in this advert

What youll get in return:

Cornwall Councils ambition is to be an employer of choice a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.

Our core employee rewards and benefits include:

a competitive salary.

a defined benefit pension scheme based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions

a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave.

A national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme

Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services.

Additional Information:

Please note we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role

The full role profile is attached here

We recommend saving a copy of this to refer to if you are invited to an interview.

For more information or an informal chat about the role please contact Tamsin Lees -

Application Process

Please attach a supporting statement to your application you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. Remember to demonstratewhy you are suitable against each of the points marked as Application on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here The application process.

Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted please contact if you have any queries or require assistance with your application.

Existing employees must apply using their Cornwall Council email address through the Opportunity Marketplace on Oracle.