City Centre Engagement Officer

This is an exciting opportunity to join Gloucester City Council in a role dedicated to tackling street based anti-social behaviour (ASB) and wider community safety issues. You will work closely with key partners and agencies to offer engagement and support in the first instance to individuals, focusing on long-term sustainable solutions and taking enforcement action where appropriate and necessary. The successful candidate will join the wider Community Wellbeing Team and work closely alongside members of the Solace Partnership.

You will be an experienced community safety professional, or similar, with strong knowledge of anti-social behaviour legislation and practices. You will need to have proven experience in working with a range of partner agencies and professionals collaboratively and have confidence in handling complex and challenging cases. If you're someone who is passionate about safer communities, is able to communicate clearly and enjoys working closely with agencies and individuals to overcome challenges, we would welcome your application., It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a 'customer facing role' must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.

Our main office, based in the Eastgate Centre on Eastgate Street in the heart of the city, is an accessible, modern and light space designed for collaborative working and finding new ways to work. It's all open plan, with a living green wall and other plants without set desks, so you can sit next to someone new every day. We're always looking to improve how we work and we offer flexible and agile working to give our people a great work life balance.,

• Generous Annual Leave entitlement 30 days annual leave (Pro Rata).
• An option to purchase 10 days of additional leave per year.
• 2 days paid leave every year to participate in local volunteering activities.
• Excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) & Life Cover of 3 times your salary
• Regular Training, career development and qualification opportunities.
• Supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision.
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone, and an in-house Occupational Health service.
• Enhanced family friendly leave and pay.
• Cycle to Work scheme (Salary Sacrifice -T&C apply).
• Car Scheme (Salary Sacrifice -T&C apply).
• Employee discount scheme.
• Discounted tickets for local events, and reduced rate use of GL1 Leisure facilities
• Free Flu-jabs
• Access to employee led networks such as Black Worker's, Prism (LGBT+), Carers, Disability and the Young Employees Network, and opportunities to participate in our Equalities Working Group., To access the Job Profile, please follow the link below:-
Job Profile: Job Profile: City Centre Engagement The council is not currently able to offer sponsorship in this role. Candidates will need to have right to work that enables them to commit to at least 6 months employment. Right to work is not transferable from a sponsored role held with another employer. Applications from any Gloucester City Council's employees who are currently on the redeployment register or at risk of redundancy will be considered first at shortlisting stage. Gloucester City Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people or vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Equality and Diversity We recognise the positive value of equality and diversity and pride ourselves on growing a high-performing workforce that is diverse, skilled and talented; that represents the community it serves.