Job Description

About us

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This is a fantastic time to join Team Salford. Salford is a rapidly changing and growing place with a proud and fascinating history and an exciting and vibrant future. Our population is growing, and the city is home to a broad cross section of people. The city is being transformed through unprecedented levels of development and investment and this growth trajectory is set to continue.


At Salford City Council we are passionate about working together with our partners to build a better, fairer, greener, safer, and healthier city.


A key partnership is the Salford Community Safety Partnership, a mature partnership made up of public and private agencies each with their part to play in delivering the Salford Community Safety Strategy. We work closely with the safeguarding partnerships in the city to deliver our cross-cutting themes.

About the role

We are looking for an enthusiastic and dedicated person to support the Head of Community Safety, Resilience and Neighbourhood Management at Salford City Council to deliver our statutory duties and strategic priorities.


The responsibilities of this role are to:

Actively support and deputise for the Head of Service, managing community safety services as required and representing Salford at regional and national forums. To ensure that all statutory duties that fall within the remit of the community safety team are managed and discharged in a timely and effective manner, specifically those set out in the Crime and Disorder Act. To develop, implement and monitor strategies, policies and delivery plans relating to community safety, including the statutory annual strategic crime needs assessment and three-yearly Community Safety Strategy. To co-ordinate the delivery of the statutory Community Safety Partnership and the production of relevant committee reports, lead member and partnership briefings relevant to the duty. To actively encourage and develop partnership working, building and maintaining strong effective relationships with strategic and operational colleagues within the Council (including elected members) and external partner organisations. To work collaboratively with the Safeguarding Adults Board and Safeguarding Children Partnership business managers to coordinate delivery of safeguarding responsibilities. To lead on specific strategic work programmes including delivery of domestic abuse objectives and to take the lead on Domestic Abuse Related Death Reviews. To commission, develop and monitor specialist domestic abuse services and manage funding streams and grant return documentation.

About you

You will have a knowledge and understanding of the legislation and strategic drivers relevant to the role, and experience of developing and delivering policies and projects to deliver these.


You will have excellent verbal, written and presentation skills with the ability to communicate clearly, effectively and be highly credible and influential with elected members and other public and private partners and stakeholders.


You will demonstrate the ability to build productive and effective partnerships with key stakeholders across public, private, voluntary sector and community organisations to deliver community safety objectives.

What we can offer you

You will be welcomed into a friendly team and environment where your personal and professional development will be encouraged, you will have the opportunity to work and grow in a values-based organisation where people are at the heart of everything we do. We promote a positive permission culture, empowering you to make a difference. Your opinions matter to us and you will have the opportunity to shape how we do things through our Salford 100 employee group and our employee led redesign approach. Your work-life balance and wellbeing are important to us so you will have access to a range of benefits including flexible working, green travel, pension, and salary sacrifice schemes.

Further Information

For further information about the role, you can contact the recruiting manager Jeanette Staley, jeanette.staley@salford.gov.uk.


We will not be accepting candidates who require a sponsorship for this position.

Want to know more about Salford?

As an authority we are dedicated to improving the lives of our residents, and as an employer we are passionate about helping individuals to thrive in their work. We are committed to developing a diverse and inclusive culture and are proud of our professional accreditations which champion this.


Find out about our city as a place to live, work & grow, and learn more about the amazing work we are doing. You'll also find out about the wealth of benefits we have to offer you on our Salford pages!

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