Job Description

Job Introduction

Critical Incident Community Response Coordinator

Full-time; 35 hours per week; Until 31/03/2027, with potential for further extension (subject to funding)


Location: The Woolwich Centre, Wellington Street, SE18 6HQ with potential for some home-based working


We need a versatile and enthusiastic officer to join our Community Safety team to drive a range of activities in response to violent incidents that have a high impact on local communities. You will identify who has been affected (e.g. witnesses, at-risk demographic groups, nearby residents and workers) and establish the community's concerns and needs.
You will then co-ordinate delivery of community engagement activity and the provision by partners of services targeting specific needs, to support the community to recover, build resilience and improve long-term confidence in police, council and partner services.
This post enables us to deliver timely interventions and to support communities affected by serious violence. You will continue to embed the best practice delivery model across all community safety areas; providing support, visibility and reassurance to local communities in critical incident locations.
Much of the role will depend on working successfully with partners so skills and experience in building strong partnership working are essential. Key partners will include the police, third sector services, business and community groups and social landlords.
As part of our lively and friendly Community Safety team you will work alongside staff tackling hate crime, town centre issues, domestic abuse, modern slavery, prevention of extremism and varied crime reduction projects, giving plenty of opportunity for collaboration.
This role will give you chance to demonstrate the Council's key staff values, especially: Taking Ownership - Doing Things Better - Working Together.
You will need experience of engaging with diverse communities, excellent communication skills, project management experience and ability to work on your own initiative. A successful DBS check will be required

Diversity Statement:

Royal Borough of Greenwich values the diversity of its community and aims to have a workforce that reflects this. We therefore encourage applications from all sections of the community.

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How Applications are Scored:

Each application is scored according to how well the supporting statements addresses each point on the Person Specification for the role. Candidates will be short-listed for interview on the extent to which they meet the specific points within the Person Specification. The Person Specification is supplied with the job advert. When completing your application, please use the supporting statements section to tell us how you meet each of the points on the Person Specification. We need to have this information in order to consider your application.

Salary:

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Our Staff Values:

Our Staff Values are important to us. Candidates will be continuously assessed against our staff values throughout the recruitment process. Where candidates demonstrate views and behaviours that do not meet the standards of our staff values, we reserve the right to reject their application/ registration.