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About the job
This post is open to applicants who can meet the College’s nationality, UK residency and vetting requirements.
About us:
We’re the professional body for the police service in England and Wales. We work with everyone in policing to set standards, to share knowledge and good practice and to support the development of police officers and staff. Our mission is to drive a consistent approach across policing where the public and the service expect it, to boost professionalism and to improve leadership at every level.
Although we're a small organisation, our work has a big reach. We are uniquely placed to work both with national policing organisations and local forces to support frontline officers, staff and volunteers in their day-to-day roles.
We offer a supportive and inclusive environment for people to thrive. Our extensive flexible-working policy, employee wellbeing support, family friendly policies, employers network for equality and inclusion (ENEI) membership and status as a disability confident employer means everyone can bring their whole self to work.
This role is being recruited to support the Public Protection Policing Standards Manager (PP-PSM).
The PP-PSM covers the 14 strands of public protection, including some areas that are consistently high profile such as child sexual exploitation, rape and sexual offences, child abuse, forced marriage, FGM, modern slavery, domestic abuse, vulnerability to radicalisation, adults at risk, etc.
A Senior Policy Advisor – Public Protection is being recruited to provide consistent and sustained support to these areas of business. Experience and knowledge of vulnerability, risk and public protection are essential in this role. The successful candidate will work across the criminal justice sector, with a variety of stakeholders to develop, deliver and implement standards and guidance, produce and provide learning and knowledge products and identify and share evidence-based practice to policing to ensure the best possible responses to public protection. They will draft and develop evidence-based policing standards and guidance within specific area of subject matter expertise, engaging with, consulting and advising police forces, agencies and other stakeholder organisations, to support the promotion and embedding of professional practice across policing.
The role will, in the first instance, focus on the priority area of public protection.
Some of your responsibilities will include:
To be successful in this role you’ll need:
Please see the attached job description which contains full details of the role.
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
Benefits
The College is a great place to work. We're passionate about our people and offer a wide range of benefits, including (but not limited to):
We also have a number of thriving staff networks that provide the opportunity for advice, support and to drive change. A place to get your voice heard, share experiences and challenge our working practices to ensure equality of opportunity for all.
For more information about our benefits and staff networks, visit What we offer as an employer , College of Policing
Things you need to know
Vacancy Reference: K&I6293
This role is available as a permanent appointment or as a secondment opportunity for 2 years to:
Please ensure you return the attached secondment approval form either as an attachment when submitting your application or via email to recruitment@college.police.uk.
For further information on applying for a secondment please visit the “Secondments into the College” page.
How to apply and contact information:
For further information visit our ‘Work for us’ page.
We believe that a diverse workforce brings many benefits to the organisation including diversity of thought and improvements to the way we work internally and with partners and communities. We strive to be fully inclusive but we know there is more to do. We genuinely encourage people from all backgrounds and underrepresented groups to apply for this role.
We want to continually improve our recruitment processes and to remove any barriers to equal opportunities that could disadvantage those from particular backgrounds. In order for us to have the information to do this, we ask you to please complete the diversity section of the online application process. We use a “blind” shortlisting process and we hope that by using this method we will be able to promote greater diversity in our workforce and remove any subconscious decisions based on biases.
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
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