About this job

PERMANENT: 37 Hours Per Week 
SALARY: £37,938 to £40,476
LOCATION: Tiverton

Are you committed to co-ordinating activity aimed at preventing and reducing anti-social behaviour and crime and disorder and improving community safety who would welcome being part of a friendly, very collaborative Public Health service? 

As our Specialist Lead for Community Safety and Safeguarding you would be working with a wide range of colleagues across the Council and alongside external partner agencies such as the Police, Safer Devon Partnership and service providers. In doing so, you will support our public sector duties across safeguarding, modern slavery and the East and Mid Devon Community Safety Partnership.  This will involve supporting local groups, producing reports, promoting activities and identifying funding opportunities to support this work.  You will also work on tackling individual cases of antisocial behaviour alongside our innovative Youth Intervention Panel whilst advising on matters relevant to the role on a reactive and proactive basis. 

Do you enjoy dealing with a wide of variety of case work, projects and action planning activity across anti-social behaviour, community safety, safeguarding and modern slavery? 

Do you relish researching and applying a range of legislation, guidance and professional practice to make things happen? 

Do you enjoy sharing your knowledge with colleagues and partners as part of a drive to make a difference to the lives of our residents? 

If you do and have the enthusiasm to be part of: 

• a forward thinking council;
• a wider public health service whose work involves a wide range of nuisance, anti-social behaviour, supporting refugee schemes and private sector housing conditions; and
• a professional team which supports its colleagues including our Council tenants managed by our Mid Devon Housing team 

Then this is the job for you!  

What we can offer you 

• Hybrid Working - which allows employees to combine working from Tiverton and at home.
• Flexi time – this allows employees, in agreement with their line manager, flexible start and finish times. Should employees build hours up (i.e. working more than their contracted hours) these can be used at a later date in agreement with their line manager to a maximum of 20 hours per month (pro rata).
• Generous annual leave – This starts at 26 days and rises to 29 days (plus bank holidays) in line with length of service. (Annual leave listed is pro rata for part time employees.)
• The opportunity to join the Local Government Pension Scheme.
• Death in Service - If you are part of the Pension Scheme in operation at the Council and you die whilst in employment with the Council, your next of kin will be entitled to a lump sum payment that is equivalent to three years pay. There is no minimum service level for this to be applicable.
• Paid Professional Membership - The Council is committed to supporting employees with professional memberships. Therefore any professional membership required for the role you are employed for will be paid by the Council.
• Commitment to Personal Development - At the Council we are committed to developing employees and there are ongoing training and development opportunities.
• Employee Assistance Programme - We have an employee support programme run by Workout Solutions an independent, external organisation.
• Discounted Leisure Centre Membership.
• Other benefits – eye care voucher, annual flu vaccination voucher.

To find out more

To find out more about this role please contact Simon Newcombe, Head of Housing and Health (East & Mid Devon CSP Chair) on 07967 679939 or snewcombe@middevon.gov.uk or Adrian Gardner, Specialist Lead – Community Safety and Safeguarding agardner@middevon.gov.uk.

For full details please read the Job Description and Person Specification - Specialist Lead for Community Safety and Safeguarding

The Job Description refers to the level of competencies required for this post. For an explanation of what this means, please see Core Competencies.

A satisfactory basic disclosure check and three years complete employment history will be requested in the event of you being offered the position.

Unfortunately we are unable to sponsor skilled worker visas at this time. For more information on pre-employment checks, please review the documents found here.

How to apply

Please download and complete our Job Application Form and send to Opportunities@middevon.gov.uk. Alternatively, print and send by post to:

People Services
Mid Devon District Council
Phoenix House
Phoenix Lane
Tiverton, Devon
EX16 6PP

Please remember to quote the following post and vacancy numbers:

CLOSING DATE:	3 May 2025 at 5:00pm
POST NUMBER:	EL08
VACANCY NUMBER:	2025043

MDDC reserves the right to close this vacancy early. We therefore encourage early applications.

We want to be an inclusive and diverse employer of first choice reflecting the community we serve and particularly welcome applications from all underrepresented groups.  We are keen to make our interviews accessible. Let us know on your job application if you have a disability and need any reasonable adjustments.

We're committed to Equality of Opportunity and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

If we've not contacted you within two weeks of the closing date, please assume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. 

Thank you for showing an interest in this vacancy and we wish you every success with your on-going job search.