Overview
The overall purpose of the role is to lead the Bedfordshire Violence Exploitation Prevention Partnership in the role of Head of VEPP, to prevent and tackle serious violence and exploitation, particularly amongst the under 25-year-old cohort. (In line with Home Office grant guidelines) by providing strategic leadership, vision and direction to and for the Violence & Exploitation Prevention Partnership.
The Head of the VEPP is responsible for ensuring the delivery of a whole system, public health approach to tackling violence and exploitation, bringing together key partners to identify the local drivers and root causes of serious violence, exploitation and agree and implement a multi-agency response to them.
The Head of the VEPP will carry out this responsibility on behalf of the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner (OPCC) and wider VEPP Partnership.
Through the aim of delivering long-term impacts, plan and strive for the financial and cultural sustainability of the VEPP, working to minimise dependence on central government finance so that VEPP-led activity can continue in future financial years.
Responsibilities
* Lead the VEPP and its core staff. Co-ordinate the allocation of appropriate resources to deliver the VEPP core function ensuring the delivery of the following three strategic priority issues: Multi-agency systems leadership; Use of evidence and evaluation; Effective sharing of data between partners.
* Build and maintain strong relationships with the Home Office and the Ministry of Justice, and public sector partners across Bedfordshire to ensure the effective deployment of resources in each financial year.
* Deliver the distinct operating model for the Bedfordshire VEPP which takes a public health approach and brings together existing structures to maximise collaboration, coproduction, cross agency and place-based working.
* Take the lead role in ensuring the VEPP is fit for purpose, effectively responding to needs and managing and adapting within a dynamic political environment.
* To work with and for communities to understand and make a sustained impact on violence, vulnerability and exploitation prevention and reduction.
* Engage partners from public, voluntary, private and academic sectors to draw on expertise and to secure buy in to and from existing governance and delivery structures.
* Lead the VEPP team to design, develop and implement strategies and plans which support the development and delivery of activities to prevent and reduce violence, vulnerability and exploitation in Bedfordshire.
* Provide strategic advice, guidance and evolving support to the VEPP Oversight Board, building on the existing blueprint of collaboration around violence, vulnerability and exploitation.
* Provide clear and visible leadership and direction to support the delivery of key priorities and objectives of the VEPP.
* Act as the lead strategic adviser to the VEPP and the PCC providing independent, timely and expert advice, identifying and progressing matters requiring decision, scrutiny and/or action.
* Develop, review and implement the VEPP Delivery Plan and oversee activity and operations to ensure an effective and efficient organisation is in place to support priorities and business objectives.
* Ensure knowledge management is developed, implemented and embedded within the VEPP to add value to effective decision making.
* Ensure that efficient strategies, plans and mechanisms are in place to commission services to support delivery of priorities.
* Oversee, manage and implement all aspects of commissioning to include shaping and influencing commissioning outcomes.
* Enable good community engagement across the region, to work with and for communities and shape a momentum that violence is unacceptable.
* Ensure that monies are allocated in a way that maximises outcomes and builds resilience in Bedfordshire communities.
* Develop and support an effective engagement policy by creating and sustaining a constructive, ongoing relationship with the diverse communities of Bedfordshire, collaborating and enabling local stakeholder networks.
* Ensure the provision of an effective, co-ordinated media and communications and community engagement service to enhance public understanding and awareness of the VEPP.
* Engage with and respond effectively to the diverse communities of Bedfordshire.
* Represent the VEPP on national strategic bodies where required.
* Build and maintain constructive relationships with key stakeholders, including Police, Public Health England, Local Authorities NHS England, Clinical Commissioning Groups and relevant voluntary sector organisations.
* Support the Police and Crime Commissioner in his role and ensure the Serious Harm Board in fulfilling its function, has the correct membership whilst building strong relationships with local authority partners.
* Actively monitor the performance of the VEPP, working with the Core Members to ensure the necessary compliance with relevant legal conditions surrounding the sharing of data.
* Undertake consultation with relevant partners to ensure the development and delivery of an effective process for identifying the drivers of serious violence and the production of a Strategic Needs Assessment. Generate long-term and short-term solutions to address the drivers of violence, covering primary, secondary and tertiary responses. Work with partners to ensure the Strategic Needs Assessment is reviewed at least once a year embedding the views and voices of the communities and young people served by the VEPP into VEPP operations and delivery plans. This will be achieved through developing a robust set of theory of change evidence for all commissioned interventions, co-producing these with delivery partners.
* Undertake consultation with relevant partners to ensure a multi-agency response to the Strategic Needs Assessment and the production of a five-year response strategy, delivery plan and sustainability plan which is reviewed not less than once a year. Delivery plans will be monitored and scrutinised through the production of a VEPP Annual Report to ensure that due consideration has been given to the delivery of the most effective and most impactful services available, which will vary depending on the local context of violence. Partnership working will be required alongside the Hotspot Response Lead Police Officer to ensure VEPP and Police activity are integrated. Additionally, close liaison with the Head of Partnerships in the OPCC will be required to ensure VEPP and Serious Violence Reduction Duty activities are closely aligned.
* Develop clear performance data frameworks to identify early wins from interventions being delivered within each area of Bedfordshire. Lead on the development of a clear evaluation strategy to ensure value is added to the existing evidence base, to determine how best to deploy intervention spend for maximum impact. This will need to be done through working closely with colleagues within partners to explore and aim to implement a common data platform (CDP) across the partnership.
* Be responsible for the effectiveness of interventions and ensure an accurate level of evaluation is completed.
* Support partners and commissioned services to develop skills to embed best practice and build communities capable of sustaining violence and exploitation prevention activity in a business-as-usual capacity.
* Implement and oversee a minimum of 2 robust impact evaluations of interventions each financial year.
Hold overall budgetary responsibility for the Home Office grant(s) To also secure matched funding (this could include in-kind contributions for example staff secondments, office space) to support the VEPP from local partners across the funding period.
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