Senior Head of Service - Community Safety & Vulnerable People
| Posting date: | 10 February 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 March 2025 |
| Location: | Bolton, BL1 1RU |
| Company: | inploi |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 75683243 |
Summary
Grade: O scp58 £68,505 to scp62 £72,495
Contract: Permanent 37 hours per week
Role specifics:
A minimum of three years management experience in a Community Safety and or Safeguarding role, including experience of managing operational services.
A relevant managerial qualification and evidence of leading multi-disciplinary teams. The post also requires you to hold a full UK driving licence.
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The Role
Reporting to the Assistant Director of Community Safety and Housing, this Senior Head of Service role will lead on policy and strategy development and the interface between the council and partners across a range of critical areas focussed on protecting vulnerable people. This includes Safeguarding Board arrangements, Criminal Justice, Domestic Abuse and Prevent amongst other key policy areas which all require a clear, co-ordinated and consistent approach to ensure the achievement of not just the councils’ objectives but that of wider partners too.
This is a pivotal role in the delivery of the council's vision and corporate priorities, and the post holder is expected to promote and model our organisational values in all aspects of their work.
For further information and an informal chat about this position, please contact Ella Holden on 01204 337859.
About You
We’re looking for a strategic leader, someone who is keen to make a difference, cares about our borough and will be a passionate advocate for some of our most vulnerable communities in Bolton.
If you share our passion, vision and drive to ensure that we can help make Bolton a safe and prosperous place helping us to meet the needs and expectations of our communities now and into the future we would love to hear from you.
About Us
This is your opportunity to join us at an exciting time as we have strong ambitions for the borough.
Bolton is a great place to work. We are a welcoming organisation that wants to contribute to a place where people feel active, connected and prosperous. We are passionate about improving the outcomes and experience of Bolton people. We want Bolton to be a vibrant place built on strong cohesive communities, successful businesses and healthy, engaged residents.
As an employer we want to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment, by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits, including discounts and exclusive gym membership prices and salary sacrifice schemes. In addition, we offer a generous annual leave allowance, flexible work opportunities, access to a Pension Scheme, as well as a range of employee wellbeing and support services.
Our Values are really important to us, read all about them below, along with all our great staff benefits, the job description/person specification for the role and the important legal bits, and our Top Tips too.
Ready to apply? Then please click Apply and upload your anonymised CV and supporting statement discussing your relevant skills and experience and explain how you believe they make you a strong fit for this role.
Within Greater Manchester, local authorities have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers, carers, and ex-military personnel. Please see greater.jobs for further information before you apply.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An Enhanced DBS with check of relevant barred list is therefore required for this post.
This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English as per the person specification.
This organisation has signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. That means we will recognise your continuous or ‘unbroken’ service in any Greater Manchester local authority or NHS organisation that has signed the commitment, Transport for Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service or Greater Manchester Combined Authority, giving you access to our service-related benefits. Please see the home page of greater.jobs for more information.
For more information about working for Bolton Council, please see greater.jobs; for advice and support with your application, contact recruitment@bolton.gov.uk
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