Prevent Education and Public Mental Health Coordinator

Kent County Council is committed to protecting and supporting residents through early intervention, prevention and strong partnership working. We are seeking a Prevent Education and Public Mental Health Coordinator to play a pivotal role in strengthening Prevent delivery across Kent. This is an exciting opportunity to help shape a more preventative, trauma-informed and public health-focused approach to safeguarding vulnerable and susceptible people from radicalisation and extremism. Working within the CONTEST and Serious Organised Crime Team (SOC) under the Prevent Team, you will strengthen alignment between Prevent, education, safeguarding and public mental health approaches, supporting early intervention and improving outcomes for children, young people and adults across Kent. The Role Reporting to the Kent and Medway Prevent and Channel Manager, you will act as a subject matter expert and key point of contact for education partner organisations on matters relating to radicalisation, extremism and compliance with the Prevent Duty. You will work across a wide range of agencies and settings. You will:

• Lead and coordinate safeguarding-led Prevent activity across education and partner organisations, ensuring effective and proportionate responses to risks of radicalisation and extremism.
• Support delivery of the statutory Prevent Duty through advice, guidance and workforce development, building confidence, capability and compliance across partner agencies.
• Strengthen collaboration between Prevent, safeguarding and public mental health systems to promote early intervention, trauma-informed practice and improved outcomes.
• Develop effective multi-agency partnerships and use insight, intelligence and performance information to drive continuous improvement and system learning., This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements.
This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service. Any offer of employment will be subject to the appropriate pre-employment checks.

We are looking for an individual who can demonstrate:
• Significant experience of working with education settings on safeguarding, prevention or early intervention activity.
• Experience of delivering training, advice and professional support to a wide range of stakeholders.
• Knowledge of Prevent legislation, safeguarding responsibilities and counter-terrorism policy at both national and local levels.
• An understanding of public health approaches to prevention, vulnerability and harm reduction.
You will be passionate about prevention, safeguarding and partnership working, and bringing together agencies and systems to improve outcomes and protect vulnerable people from harm.

This is a full-time fixed-term position, initially funded for 2 years The role will require travel across Kent and occasional attendance at meetings outside normal office hours.