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This post is open to applicants who can meet the College’s nationality, UK residency and vetting requirements.

About us:

We’re the professional body for the police service in England and Wales. We work with everyone in policing to set standards, to share knowledge and good practice and to support the development of police officers and staff. Our mission is to drive a consistent approach across policing where the public and the service expect it, to boost professionalism and to improve leadership at every level.

Although we're a small organisation, our work has a big reach. We are uniquely placed to work both with national policing organisations and local forces to support frontline officers, staff and volunteers in their day-to-day roles.

We offer a supportive and inclusive environment for people to thrive. Our extensive flexible-working policy, employee wellbeing support, family friendly policies, employers network for equality and inclusion (ENEI) membership and status as a disability confident employer means everyone can bring their whole self to work.

This role is being recruited to support the Public Protection Policing Standards Manager (PP-PSM).

The PP-PSM covers the 14 strands of public protection, including some areas that are consistently high profile such as child sexual exploitation, rape and sexual offences, child abuse, forced marriage, FGM, modern slavery, domestic abuse, vulnerability to radicalisation, adults at risk, etc.

A Senior Policy Advisor – Public Protection is being recruited to provide consistent and sustained support to these areas of business. Experience and knowledge of vulnerability, risk and public protection are essential in this role. The successful candidate will work across the criminal justice sector, with a variety of stakeholders to develop, deliver and implement standards and guidance, produce and provide learning and knowledge products and identify and share evidence-based practice to policing to ensure the best possible responses to public protection. They will draft and develop evidence-based policing standards and guidance within specific area of subject matter expertise, engaging with, consulting and advising police forces, agencies and other stakeholder organisations, to support the promotion and embedding of professional practice across policing.

The role will, in the first instance, focus on the priority area of public protection.

Some of your responsibilities will include:

• Working with colleagues to collect, interpret and critically evaluate information and best available evidence from a range of sources to determine and develop cost-efficient, value for money options and opportunities for policing standards and guidance which promote professional approaches and deliver improvements in working practices across policing.
• Building effective partnerships with the police service, academic institutions, local communities and other organisations and disseminating, encouraging and supporting evidence-based good practice approaches to delivering policing-related commissions.
• Providing support, guidance and consultancy advice to Police Forces and other agencies within areas of subject matter expertise to identify and develop policies and solutions to new issues and share knowledge to enable consistent approaches across policing.

To be successful in this role you’ll need:

• A Degree or equivalent level 6 qualification and/or significant equivalent work experience in area of subject matter expertise, ideally public protection policing.
• Experience of problem-solving and using an evidence-based approach to develop and/or establish standards for professional practice in private and/or public sector organisations
• Experience of implementing change management and working collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders, establishing and maintaining positive working relationships and removing unnecessary barriers to service delivery

Please see the attached job description which contains full details of the role.

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Experience of problem-solving and using an evidence-based approach to develop and/or establish standards for professional practice in private and/or public sector organisations
• Subject matter expertise and relevant experience in any of the themed areas of public protection.
• Ability to build and retain credibility as an authority/source on current and emerging issues within public protection and vulnerability and associated application of good practice and standards

The College is a great place to work. We're passionate about our people and offer a wide range of benefits, including (but not limited to):

• Defined benefit pension scheme with an average employer contribution of 27%
• Up to 30 days holiday (this is in addition to 8 public holidays and 2.5 privilege days)
• Continued professional development and structured career paths
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Flexi-time (for certain grades)
• A range of flexible working arrangements
• Benenden Healthcare
• National Dental Plan
• Discounts for on-line shopping
• Free employee support line
• Interest free season ticket loans
• Rewards and recognition scheme

We also have a number of thriving staff networks that provide the opportunity for advice, support and to drive change. A place to get your voice heard, share experiences and challenge our working practices to ensure equality of opportunity for all.

For more information about our benefits and staff networks, visit What we offer as an employer , College of Policing

Job contact :

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College HR Recruitment Team
Email :
[email protected]
Telephone :
07795590014

Recruitment team :

Email :
[email protected]