ASB & Community Safety Officer

Our Story:

Halton is a vibrant local authority with a rich history and heritage, featuring two iconic bridges that connect communities across the River Mersey. Located in Cheshire, Halton boasts excellent transport links between Liverpool and Manchester, as well as close proximity to both Liverpool John Lennon and Manchester Airports.

Our progressive community strategy aims to bring about meaningful, long-term improvements that enhance lives. It’s an exciting time to join us as we develop new policies and transform the way people access services.

We are immensely proud that when asked what’s great about working for Halton, the most popular response from our workforce has been ‘our colleagues’. 

 

Our Team:

This is an exciting role within the Community Safety and Protection division to deliver a quality victim focused response to reported issues of crime and anti-social behaviour. Utilising restorative practice and early interventions to support victims, encourage behavioural change and prevent re-victimisation working with alleged offenders to divert them away from crime and anti-social behaviour.

The post holder will take responsibility for the management of casework relating to anti-social behaviour and crime – victim and offender focussed – and will work closely with partners to reduce re-victimisation and/or re-offending. The post holder will have responsibility for community engagement, support and problem solving within Halton.

The right candidate will have experience of working within Community Safety to tackle issues of crime/anti-social behaviour and be articulate and accurate in relation to community safety issues. You will also posess experience of case management including undertaking assessments, identifying need and developing multi-agency action plans in partnership. 

The post is office based at The Municpal Building, Widnes, Cheshire.

Your Contributions:

• To work as a member of the Enforcement Team delivering support in response to reported issues of low-level crime and anti-social behaviour into the service and through multi-agency problem solving working in Halton’s Community Safety Partnership.
• To work restoratively with those harmed by anti-social behaviour to encourage behaviour change and to work with alleged offenders to understand the harms and divert away from crime and anti-social behaviour.
• To be responsible for the management of casework relating to anti-social behaviour, both with victims and offenders to reduce the negative impact on the community.
• To develop action plans in response to anti-social behaviour and low level crime in partnership with internal and external partners.
• Provide a lead role on the implementation of action plans, problem solving and community engagement and support in relation to community safety in Halton

 

Personal attributes and circumstances

• Have a demonstrable understanding of equality and diversity issues and the ability to demonstrate good practice in this respect.

• A flexible approach to working including ability to work core hours Monday - Friday 7:30am - 7pm and outside these hours depending upon service activity. 

 

Our Offer:

Aside from working with a great team, our employees have access to a fantastic range of benefits, including:

• A generous annual holiday allowance starting at 34 days per year (including bank holidays), increasing with long service
• Membership of our defined benefit, salary-linked Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) with generous employer contributions
• 3 x Salary Life Cover via Local Government Pension Scheme
• Investment in your personal development
• Free Car Parking at HBC sites
• Car leasing schemes

 

Next Steps:

At Halton Borough Council, we want all of our candidates to feel well-informed so if you would like to have an informal chat about this role, please contact Rob Moore on 0151 511 7599.

Interviews will take place on Friday 6^th December 2024.

At Halton Borough Council we want to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce and a vital part of this is to encourage diversity in all respects. We are committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and tailored to best suit the needs and strength of the individual. This includes making adjustments for people with a disability, neurodiversity or with long-term health conditions. If you require accommodations, please reach out during the recruitment process so that we can make this the best possible experience for you – resourcing@halton.gov.uk

Please refer to the attached Job Profile for further information about the role and our values.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier than the specified date should we receive sufficient applications. If you’re interested, please complete your application as early as possible.

We look forward to receiving your application!