Prepare & Resilience Officer- Counter Terrorism Policing

Closing Date: 22nd December 2024, 11:59pm

Salary: £36,630 - £42,897

Grade: 6

The Counter Terrorism Policing (CTP) network stretches across the UK. We work alongside our partners to help protect the public and our national security by preventing, deterring and investigating terrorist activity.

You’ll support the delivery of the Regional Protect and Prepare strategy and delivery plan, being instrumental in developing maintaining and reviewing the CTPWM regional plans.

By supporting CT capabilities and wider partners in exercising CTPWM plans, you’ll be supporting forces in order to respond and recover effectively from a terrorist incident within the UK or abroad.

You’ll have the highest standards of integrity, discretion and sensitivity when handling information on community security, issues and intelligence, with a flexible attitude, being enthusiastic and the ability to work with a minimum amount of supervision in a high-pressure environment.

Role responsibilities

Developing and maintaining specific CT Prepare Plans and processes as well as coordinating these plans with key stakeholders within the wider regional resilience community.
Delivering and supporting national and regional training, CPD and awareness internally and across the regional forces to embed CT Contingency Plans.
Act on recommendations and learning from utilising the Organisation Learning System (OLS) in order to review and update CT Plans and National Guidance & Arrangements, ensuring that Plans and Guidance Documents are up to date and fit for purpose. This process requires the Prepare Officer to brief Managers and Department Heads, to ensure they are sighted on updates to Plans and that their role, where relevant, is accurately reflected within the Plan structure.
Design, deliver and support testing and exercising programme against current and emerging threats. This requires engagement with the regional forces as well as other external partners to ensure the successful delivery of exercise programmes.
Being a conduit for the receipt and regional assessment of tasking from National Counter Terrorism Security Office (NaCTSO) and coordinating the regional response to these taskings.
Supporting, where necessary, CTPWM at a local, regional and national level including Protect & Prepare Boards and Working Groups.
Developing and maintaining good working relationships with contacts in all regional forces including JESIP partners, Military and Local Resilience Forums.
Planning and prioritising your own work activities, responding to managers / departmental and organisational requirements.
To perform the role of Protect & Prepare Liaison Officer (PaPLO) to support investigative and intelligence decision making in response mode. The PaPLO role provides appropriate advice to Duty Supt’s, CTSIOs and Intelligence Managers regarding aspects of CT Plans and protective security during the Pursue response.
Conduct debriefing activity following testing and exercising and live incidents.
To complete the Prepare Officer Pathway, delivered by NaCTSO, and perform the role in accordance with the Pathway standards.

Skills and competencies:

Essential

Previous experience in planning, exercise delivery & testing, contingency plans and policy writing including knowledge of the Civil Contingencies Act 2004.
Good interpersonal and presentation skills to enable briefing to a wide range of internal and external leaders and decision makers, adapting style to suit audience. Develop partnership working with public, private and voluntary sectors.
Ability to engage and collaborate with national direction and delivery regionally across 4 Forces.
Experience of planning work over varying time constraints in a dynamic environment. Be creative with new ways of working, with a proven ability to make decisions in a methodical problem-solving approach.
Experience of working both within a team, and on own initiative.
Effective written communication skills including being able to prepare letters, memos, short reports/briefings, which are timely, accurate, succinct and targeted appropriately.
Sound administrative and organisational skills, including the ability to plan ahead, organise and prioritise a heavy workload.
Effective IT skills, including Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Outlook.

Desirable

Understanding of the National Security Risk Assessment (NSRA).
Understanding of JESIP Principles.
Understand the UK CONTEST strategy.
Knowledge / experience of CT plans (25 NPRAS plans including Move to critical, Op Plato & Sprite).
Understanding of Local Resilience Forums.
Research and analytical skills.

Qualification/Experience:

Essential

Willing to complete the Prepare Officer Pathway, delivered by NaCTSO, and perform the role in accordance with the Pathway standards. Completion of the pathway is a national requirement of the role, which includes obtaining Level 3 AET.
Willing to complete a Police Training Roles Learning & Development Programme.
Full UK Driving Licence.

Desirable

Hold a recognised training or teaching qualification or have experience in training delivery and design.
Suitably qualified (CBCI or EP certificate/diploma) or has relevant experience gained working in a civil contingencies’ environment
Vocational qualification in Civil Contingency and Emergency Planning.
Use of the Resilience Direct system.

Additional Information

⚠ This role is subject to successful completion of Security Check vetting.

You must be a citizen of one of the following countries to work for Counter Terrorism Policing West Midlands (CTPWM). The UK (including Northern Ireland), USA, Canada, Australia or New Zealand. If you hold dual nationality, with one of those being British, you may also be considered. For the purposes of safeguarding national security, applicants will be required to hold or acquire the appropriate national security vetting clearance as above, in line with Cabinet Office Policy, supported by Section 82(2) to (4) of the Police Reform Act (2002). CTPWM will support preferred candidates through the appropriate vetting process.

Diversity and Inclusion

We maximise the potential of people from all backgrounds through a culture of fairness and inclusion to deliver the best service for our communities, whilst protecting them from harm.

Counter Terrorism Policing is always working to build upon our diverse workforce to reflect the country we serve. An inclusive culture enables us to do things differently, working in ways that meet individuals’ needs, flexing working patterns to ensure work-life balance is healthy so that we deliver the best for the organisation.

We are a Disability Confident Leader - the highest level an organisation can achieve under the scheme run by the Department of Work and Pensions. As part of our commitment we operate a Disability Confident Interview Scheme - all candidates who declare a disability and meet the essential criteria for the role will be offered an interview.

It is important to note that there may be occasions where it is not practicable or appropriate to interview all disabled people who meet the essential criteria for the job. For example, in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. In these circumstances, the employer could select the candidates who best meet the essential criteria for the job, as they would do for non-disabled applicants.