Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: Grade L. SCP 48 £59,208 - SCP 51 £65,817
Hours Per Week: 36hours
Base Location: Tame Street Depot, Tame Street, Stalybridge, SK15 1ST
Assessment Date: To be arranged
To apply for this role please upload your CV together with a supporting statement that provides evidence of how you meet the essential requirements of the person specification
Please also include details of your education and training and employment history and any reference to your qualifications that are specified on the person specification within your CV/supporting statement.
The Role
Tameside Council is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Head of Community Safety and Corporate Resilience to join the team.
Reporting to the Assistant Director for Operations and Neighbourhoods, the successful candidate will oversee the following service areas:
* Community Safety & Anti-Social Behaviour
* Emergency Planning
The purpose of the role, as Head of Service, is two-fold:
* To promote community safety, engagement and empowerment, and to build resilience within and among communities, particularly in relation to Anti-Social Behaviour, vulnerability to exploitation and low-level criminality. This includes due regard to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism.
* To build corporate resilience across TMBC, ensuring that Council services have in place relevant plans to deal with service disruption and meets its obligations under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004. Specific emphasis is also placed on the ability to prepare for and respond to emergencies in the borough effectively and in full harmony with other involved organisations.
About You
You must be educated to degree level or have equivalent experience and be a confident leader with the ability to provide professional advice and expertise to senior officers, politicians and partners.
You will be managing a team and undertaking a range of tasks to identify and understand service requirements and implement projects to improve performance and operations.
You will oversee the production of good quality reports, outcome data and management information to enable effective coordination and delivery of services.
About Us
Come shape the future of Tameside with us!
Message from Julian Jackson, Director of Place at Tameside Council.
“Since joining Team Tameside in September 2022, I’ve been proud to work alongside a hardworking and passionate team that’s making a real difference to our borough.
“Our Place Directorate is at the heart of shaping Tamesidecovering everything from planning and highways to parks, culture, arts, environmental services, and facilities management. Whether it’s keeping our streets clean, improving green spaces, or driving forward exciting regeneration projects, our work makes a direct impact on the lives of residents and businesses every day.
‘’We’ve already delivered some amazing projects, like Ashton Old Baths, and are currently working on master plans for our town centres in Stalybridge, Hyde, with projects like Ashton Mayoral Development Zone, and Godley Green Green Garden Village also set to create new homes, jobs and commercial spaces. But it’s not just about developments day to day it’s about making sure our core services are modern, efficient, and able to support thriving communities and safeguard our heritage buildings and asssets for the future.
To do that, we need passionate people to join us. If you want to be part of a team that’s driving real change, improving local services, and shaping the future of Tameside, we’d love to have you on board.
Come and be part of something great. Let’s build the future of Tameside together!’’
At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.
We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do.
Our employees’ skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.
Unfortunately, at this time we are not able to offer sponsorship.
We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer. Reasonable Adjustments will be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the Job Role Criteria.
Our rewards and benefits package can be viewed here
For further information about this role please contact Emma Varnam, Assistant Director on 0161 342 3337 or emma.varnam@tameside.gov.uk
Reference Number: 000983
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