Safer Communities Officer
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Safer Communities Officer
Location: Durham or Ashington Offices
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 37 per week
Salary: £35,211 per annum (inclusive of car allowance)
Closing Date: 12-Noon, Monday 26 August 2024
Are you passionate about creating safer and more cohesive communities, enabling them to be more resilient to crime and anti-social behaviour?
If so, then our safer communities officer post is for you.
About the role:
- We are looking for a pro-active and victim-focused officer, with a proven track record of tackling anti-social behaviour, domestic abuse, hate crime and harassment.
- You will support and encourage customers and communities to report anti-social behaviour, investigate reports, explore causes, assess risk, provide and signpost to support services where appropriate.
- You will lead and take proportionate action to enforce tenancy conditions to deal with acts of anti-social behaviour.
- You will deliver projects and services in communities to help prevent and educate on key related anti-social behaviour and community safety topics.
- You will drive forward our community safety approach, by identifying and working with local communities, statutory, voluntary and community sector partners to build strong, confident, and cohesive communities.
About you:
You will need:
- Knowledge and practical experience of working in a community safety or anti-social behaviour officer role.
- Excellent knowledge of relevant law and legislation and what informal and formal enforcement tools and powers are available.
- Excellent investigatory and problem-solving skills.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills and can demonstrate high levels of resilience and professional curiosity.
The Benefits:
- 28 days annual leave + bank holidays
- Working from home opportunities; where applicable to your post.
- Make big savings on day-to-day expenses with discounts on shopping, groceries, holidays, and days out through our Bernicia Own Benefits platform.
- Generous pension scheme
About us:
- We’re all about helping people in need of housing. We believe a good home makes lots of other things possible, so we provide great homes and services that do just that.
- We’ve built Bernicia to be a business that people want to be a part of. We’re one of the North East’s largest and most successful housing providers; building, renting, selling and managing homes as well as providing services to over 60,000 customers.
- Everything about Bernicia is people focused, that’s why we’ve held the Investors in People Gold Award since 2010.
- We operate within a set of simple, but effective values, which blend perfectly to create our unique ‘Bernicia Way’ culture. This ensures we are customer focused, through working together, respecting each other, being accountable for our actions and demonstrating integrity and leadership.
Please note you will be required to drive for business. You will therefore be required to hold a current and valid driving licence.
This role will also require an enhanced DBS check.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier than advertised, should we receive a large volume of applications.
The Group is fully committed to the promotion of equal opportunities and we particularly welcome applicants from groups who are currently under represented at Bernicia