Counter Terrorism Prepare Officer - CTPSW

Join Counter Terrorism Policing South West (CTPSW) and play a vital role in strengthening regional resilience against evolving threats. You will work within a team who are responsible for the co-ordination of regional Counter Terrorism preparedness activity, including the design, delivery, and evaluation of CT exercises. Through structured assurance processes, you will help to ensure national contingency plans are effectively implemented at a regional level, while driving meaningful organisational learning from exercises and real-world operations.

Working at the heart of a complex multi-agency environment, you will foster strong collaboration between national CT capabilities and regional partners, including Civil Contingencies Act (CCA) Category 1 responders and Joint Emergency Services Interoperability Principles (JESIP) partners. This role is key to maintaining a consistent national approach, whilst tailoring delivery to meet regional needs—enhancing readiness, interoperability, and collective response capabilities across the South West.

Please note that this vacancy is located at a building that can be reached by public transport or car in under 45 minutes from central Bristol or Taunton and may involve travel between two locations, the base location as advertised and a location on the edge of central Bristol.  The role encourages a mixture of home and office working with flexibility where required.

The advertised role is for 18.5hrs per week and specific working days can be negotiated.

In this role, your main responsibilities will be:

• To assess the risk of emergencies occurring and use this information to inform contingency planning.  To act as a conduit for the Receipt and Assessment of National Tasking from the Deputy Assistant Commissioner Special Operations (DACSO) and the National Coordinator Protect & Prepare via NaCTSO (National Counter Terrorism Security Office) Messaging and Security Review Committee (extraordinary).
• Coordinate the development, maintenance, review and assurance of National CT Contingency Plans, as defined by the NPRAS process, ensuring a nationally consistent but regionally specific collaborative approach between National CT Capabilities and Regional CCA Cat 1 Responders, JESIP partners and other agencies.
• Create exercises to practice or validate emergency response plans to support the National Operational Development Unit (ODU) and Regional Learning, training and exercising (LTE) resources with National and Regional priority exercising and validation, to compliment the HSG/ODU national exercise programmes.
• To facilitate and support LTE resources with National, Regional and Local debriefing processes, post CT incidents and exercises in order to specifically identify Protect & Prepare successful performance, lessons to be learned and to enable the review of relevant plans, guidance and arrangements.
• Provide support to the NCOM (National Coordinators Oversight meeting) by putting arrangements in place to make information available to the public about civil protection matters and maintain arrangements to warn, inform and advise the public in the event of a CT incident or emergency
• Plan, implement and manage systems for the exchange of sensitive information, data and intelligence.  This will be achieved by undertaking the role of a PaPLO (Protect & Prepare liaison Officer) and facilitating the joint NaCTSO and NPSA (National Protective Security Authority) PIIE (Post Incident Information Exploitation) process
• Develop and sustain effective working relationships with other organisations, including public, private or voluntary sector bodies. This is essential for effective multi-agency working in planning for, responding to, and assisting recovery from emergencies. Specifically JESIP partners. This will include working closely with P&P leads and deputies from regional forces.
• You may be required to perform other duties which are not necessarily specified on the role profile, but which are commensurate with the responsibilities of the role holder.

Skills, experience and qualifications required:

Essential

• There is an expectation that the successful candidate will undertake NaCTSO & ODU designated training in order to be professionally qualified.
• Be prepared to work towards the NaCTSO (National Counter Terrorism Security Office) City and Guilds Professional Recognition Award.
• Be able to demonstrate an understanding of the UK CONTEST Strategy
• Previous experience of writing, exercising or debriefing contingency or emergency plans in accordance with the responsibilities of a categorised responder identified within the Civil Contingencies Act 2004.
• Understanding of JESIP Doctrine.
• Recent experience of planning work over varying time constraints in a dynamic environment. Proven ability to make decisions in a methodical, problem solving approach.
• Ability to converse with police staff and officers of all ranks/grades to ensure relevant processes are maintained and agreed protocols followed
• Proven experience of presenting ideas and information effectively, both verbally and in writing; confident and able to adapt style to suit the audience ability and maintain confidentiality at all times.
• Willingness to travel both regionally & nationally.
• Due to the requirement to work flexibility there will be occasional overnight stays, public transport may not be available or suitable at these times. For this reason, a full UK Driving licence is considered essential.
• Conversant and competent with Microsoft Suite of products : PowerPoint / Word/Excel

Desirable

• Previous or current experience of being a trained De-briefer
• Project management qualifications or equivalent

This post has been designated as requiring the following vetting levels in accordance with the National Vetting Policy - Police Management Vetting (MV) And National Security Vetting - Security Clearance Level (SC Enhanced). To be eligible to apply for this role you must have a 5 year ‘checkable history’ in the UK – ideally this means that you would have been resident in the UK for the last 5 years.

This post requires access to the most sensitive intelligence material on a daily basis. Applicants must hold or be prepared to undergo National Security Vetting (NSV) Security Check (enhanced) (SC(e)) level before taking up the post; with a willingness to undergo Developed Vetting (DV) once in post, if required.

This post requires British nationality (some dual nationals may be ineligible) and an Enhanced Security Check (eSC)/Developed Vetting (DV)] clearance. 

As the post holder will have access to very sensitive information, there are limitations on travelling to a small number of countries and we will undertake additional security checks as part of the recruitment process.  Applications from candidates with close connections to certain countries may take considerably longer to process, or in some cases result in a withdrawal of an offer of employment. Further details will be provided at the conditional offer stage.

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