About the department
The MARAC team are responsible for ensuring that safeguarding and risk issues are identified and effectively managed through the Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conferences (MARAC) in West Midlands, and work alongside the other existing MARAC Coordinators. This panel brings together multiple agencies to identify risk and works to protect the victims of the most serious domestic violence and abuse.
About the role
Fixed Term Contract until at least March 2029.
As a MARAC Co-Ordinator for West Midlands Police, you will coordinate and administer MARAC panel by receiving referrals and risk assessments, setting the agenda, completing minutes and actions, and ensuring that partner agencies complete their actions. This will be as part of a team of other MARAC co-ordinators across the West Midlands region, with a view of support being offered and received as required.
You will have a key role to play in analysing the data that comes out of the panel, to identify where there are gaps in referrals and to ensure that agencies are working with all victims, including those from minority or hard to reach groups. This will include preparing performance reports on the MARAC for partnership meetings. As the MARAC expert, you will develop and deliver training sessions to partner agencies to raise awareness of the MARAC process and violence against women and girls.
Knowledge and Skills required:
• High levels of communication, written and presentation skills
• Highly developed organisational and prioritising skills
• Handling sensitive information in a confidential manner
• Ability to utilise a full range of standard office IT software/packages
• Attention to detail
• Buildings and maintaining networks and relationships
Experience of:
• Working in an administrative or customer focused office environment
• Prioritising workloads and meeting deadlines
• Maintaining and operating efficient and effective record keeping and filing systems ensuring they are updated and information is stored appropriately
Personal Qualities
• Excellent organisational skills
• Flexible to respond to changing commitments and deadlines
• Ability to work on own initiative
• Ability to work as part of a team
• Promote diversity and racial equality
• Commitment to continuous professional development
Qualifications required:
• GCSE level with at least 5 GCSEs Grades A-C to include English and Mathematics. Or the equivalent. Or experiential learning.
Other responsibilities:
- Provide excellent customer service.
- Forge and maintain effective working relationships with all colleagues and other organisations locally, regionally and nationally.
- Attend events and forums as and when requested.
- Comply with all relevant policies and guidelines to support effective decision making.
- Take personal responsibility for personal and professional development and maximise own resources in a way with reflects our values.
- Work closely with the other colleagues to improve operational practices and effectiveness.
- Ensure compliance with all policies, procedures and practices.
- Undertake projects/activities as required working across a range of functions.
- Promote diversity and racial equality, ensuring that all activities and matters have proper regard for equality and diversity issues.
- Undertake additional duties as are reasonably commensurate with the level of the post.
Prospective officers and staff must be held to a higher standard of behaviour and accountability than members of the public, and that therefore their right to privacy can be fettered in certain circumstances. This is to ensure that members of the police are fully aware and accountable for the unique powers entrusted to them and the standards of professional behaviour they swear to uphold.
Hours and Location:
This role is a full time role based and West Bromwich Police Station.
Vetting: Successful applicants will be required to pass Recruitment Vetting and Counter Terrorism Clearance scrutiny prior to commencing their role, this will include a full background & financial disclosure as part of the vetting process.
Medical: Appointment to this role will be dependent upon successfully medical checks, which may include a drugs test and hearing test.
Interviews: Interviews will take place week commencing 27th April.
Benefits
By choosing to join West Midlands Police you will receive an enhanced benefits package including:
- Fair remuneration with progression opportunities and access to a very competitive pension scheme.
- Enhanced annual leave in addition to public holiday entitlements.
- Discounts across travel, parking, daily costs of living and leisure activities.
- A comprehensive wellbeing package including 24/7 support, free eye tests and flu jabs.
West Midlands Police is 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.
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