Grade and Salary: G, £27,576 to £30,195

Area Command/Department: Safeguarding

Location: Victory House, Balliol Business Park, Benton Lane, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE12 8EW

Hours of Work:  Mon – Fri office hours (flexibility required for some evening work as and when required and some travel may require over-night trips)

Duration:  Commencing from asap but latest start date 1^st July 2019 until end of March 2020 (internal or external secondment on offer or fixed term contract) (Subject to pre-employment checks)

Internal candidates must by supported by their current supervisor as well as their head of department, to be released for the duration of the secondment, failure to do so will result in the application being withdrawn. Internal candidates who are not supported by their supervision may apply for the role on a fixed term contract basis. 

External candidates can apply for a secondment but this must be with the agreement of their current employer. Alternatively external candidates can apply for a fixed term contract without any approval from their employer. Please state in your application if you have approval for a secondment from your employer. 

Role:

Northumbria Police and the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner, have secured funding from the Home Office to build on the successful work of the six force regional ‘Domestic Abuse:  A Whole Systems Approach’ project, recently delivered over the last 3 years 2016-2019. This project is ‘Domestic Abuse:  A Whole Systems Approach – The Next Steps’ project which will continue to transform the response to domestic abuse across the country.

‘Domestic Abuse:  A Whole Systems Approach – The Next Steps’ involves three elements;

(1)    Sharing Best Practice Nationally

Sharing good practice from the original project, as well as outcomes and challenges by design of a national toolkit and digital platform.

(2)    Domestic Abuse Perpetrator Management Collaboration

Engage with other Police Transformation projects dealing with perpetrators of domestic abuse in relation to the Multi-agency Tasking and Coordination (MATAC) process, including the Drive Project and Early Intervention Response (EIR), aswell as RESPECT, to explore how to share and champion best practice nationally. 

Work together to design, create and disseminate the collaboration process.

(3)    Consolidation of Domestic Abuse: A Whole System Approach Programme

Project manage an extended trial period of the following elements of the original six forces participating in the original project, to continue gathering data for the evaluation and further embed them;

Humberside, North Yorkshire, Durham and Cleveland – MATAC delivery

West Yorkshire – Domestic Violence Support and Assistance (DVSA) car delivery

Northumbria – MATAC one to one behaviour change programme workers

The expected outcomes and benefits of the project are:

•        Prevent domestic abuse related offending;

•        Improve victim safety;

•        Improve criminal justice outcomes;

•        Improve partnership engagement;

•        Improve offender behaviour;

•        Effective national  information sharing;

•        Effective multi-agency offender management.

This is an exciting and unique opportunity for anyone passionate and motivated about transforming the national response to Domestic Abuse.  You will have a team to support your role, a business analyst, evaluation coordinator and ICT design and development support.

The following attributes and requirements are considered key to the success of this engagement adviser and events coordinator role:

·        Must have experience of different methods of communication and engagement with a variety of target audiences, with excellent verbal and written communication skills (M)

·        Must have experience of organising and facilitating large events (M)

·        Must be enthusiastic and motivated (M)

·        The successful candidate must be able to travel around the Force area with some national travel and be able to occasionally work flexible hours (M)

·        Should be confident at being pro-active and producing a range of engaging content, including video, to be shared across multiple platforms (D)

·        Should have experience of delivering content on social media and know how best to use to use these channels to maximise reach (D)

·        Should have experience of being involved with development of digital and web based material (D)

·        A knowledge of media law is also desirable, but not essential (D)

This is a great opportunity for someone to really make their mark in communications across the region and nationally.

Vetting level: Management Vetting (MV).  Applicants must be a resident of the UK for a minimum period of 5 years to ensure vetting checks can be successfully performed. 

For more information please see Role Description: Engagement and Events Adviser – Domestic Abuse: A Whole System Approach The Next Steps

A job offer will be dependent upon vetting clearance, medical information and references. 

If you have any queries with regard to the application process please contact Business Support using the following email address:

bs.people.transactions.mailbox@northumbria.pnn.police.uk

Vacancy Contact:

To discuss the position in more detail please contact Deborah Alderson, Detective Superintendent 7575, Programme Director, at:

PTFDomesticAbuse@northumbria.pnn.police.uk

This vacancy has been advertised to all staff including those with priority status and therefore applications will be considered in the order outlined in the Redeployment Procedure

Northumbria Police fully supports a policy of equal opportunities and we welcome applications from suitably qualified people from all sections of the community, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. Appointments are based on merit alone.