Prevent Officer - Partnership Team - Counter Terrorism Policing

Closing date: 02 February 2025 23:59

Salary: £31,296 - £35,526

Grade: 5

Counter Terrorism Policing is at the forefront of helping to protect the UK from terrorist attacks.

This is a regional role involving travel across the Counter Terrorism Policing West Midlands area (including Staffordshire, Warwickshire, and West Mercia).

Our Prevent team works to build relationships with all members of the community including enhancing links with key organisations. The roles cover both case management and strategic engagement.

The role will be based at the Prevent Hub in either Coventry, Bilston or Summerfield Police Station. You’ll work Monday to Friday but flexibility will be necessary to meet operational requirements.

The role

As part of the Prevent Partnership Team, you will drive and deliver the Prevent agenda across the wider policing family, facilitating engagement between policing teams, partner organisations and communities. This will be done through the development and delivery of presentations and training packages, delivering face to face inputs and managing continuous professional development for internal and external partners.

The role requires a mature understanding of Prevent as a strategy and the role it plays in wider policing legitimacy. You’ll have excellent diplomacy and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

Working collaboratively with Prevent partners in local authorities, schools, higher/ further educational institutions, faith institutions/organisations, the health sector, the prison and probation services.
Delivering briefings to local policing staff, partners and communities.
Development of training packages, events, online training and continuous professional development inputs and delivering these.
Targeted delivery of the above, using analytical data, to priority areas across the region.
Administrating and managing the Prevent Ambassador scheme, promoting, encouraging and supporting the delivery of Prevent with Police Staff and Officers across the region.
Taking minutes and actions at meetings when required.
Acting as a subject matter expert, providing specialist support to others.

Skills and competencies

Essential

Ability to prepare and confidently deliver sensitive and emotive presentations to large audiences.
Experience and understanding of partnership working.
Excellent influential and communication skills with confidence in public speaking.
Highest standards of discretion and sensitivity when handling information on community security, issues and intelligence.
Excellent organisational skills with the ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.
Excellent written skills, with the ability to research and develop detailed and accurate presentations.
Effective IT skills, including Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Outlook.
Good awareness of current events and CT issues and the effect that they may have on local communities.
Full clean driving licence.

Desirable

Previous experience of working in a risk management environment or with partner agencies.
Understanding of the Prevent strategy.
Basic knowledge of TACT legislation.

Security Clearance

⚠ 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.

Please do not attach a CV/covering letter as these will not be used during the application process.