Senior Policy Advisor – Public Protection Remote
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Job summary
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.
Job description
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.
Person specification
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.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Communicating and Influencing
- Working Together
Technical skills
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
Benefits
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
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Selection process details
Vacancy Reference: K&I6293
This role is available as a permanent appointment or as a secondment opportunity for 2 years to:
- colleagues employed directly by the College or the Civil Service. Please note you will be required to obtain the written support of your line manager prior to submitting your application.
- serving police staff at the equivalent rank of Inspector who have their chief officer's approval. Chief Officer’s approval must be of NPCC rank, i.e., CC, ACC or DCC. Approval for a secondment must accompany an application.Central service conditions may apply.
Please ensure you return the attached secondment approval form either as an attachment when submitting your application or via email to [email protected].
For further information on applying for a secondment please visit the “Secondments into the College” page.
How to apply and contact information:
For further information visit our ‘Work for us’ page.
We believe that a diverse workforce brings many benefits to the organisation including diversity of thought and improvements to the way we work internally and with partners and communities. We strive to be fully inclusive but we know there is more to do. We genuinely encourage people from all backgrounds and underrepresented groups to apply for this role.
We want to continually improve our recruitment processes and to remove any barriers to equal opportunities that could disadvantage those from particular backgrounds. In order for us to have the information to do this, we ask you to please complete the diversity section of the online application process. We use a “blind” shortlisting process and we hope that by using this method we will be able to promote greater diversity in our workforce and remove any subconscious decisions based on biases.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with settled or pre-settled status or who apply for either status by the deadline of the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
- certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals
Working for the Civil Service
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
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