Head of Community Safety

The Head of Community Safety provides strategic leadership for the council's Community Safety Services, working with partners across policing, health, housing, safeguarding and enforcement to create safer and stronger communities.

The role is responsible for developing and delivering community safety strategies, reducing crime and anti-social behaviour, tackling violence and exploitation and ensuring the protection of vulnerable residents.

As a senior leader, the post holder drives partnership working, service improvement and effective use of resources to improve outcomes for residents while supporting the council's wider priorities for community wellbeing, prevention and public confidence.

Key responsibilities include:

• Developing and delivering community safety strategies
• Reducing crime and anti-social behaviour
• Tackling violence and exploitation
• Ensuring the protection of vulnerable residents
• Driving partnership working and service improvement
• Effective use of resources to improve outcomes for residents

The ideal candidate will be an experienced senior leader with a strong background in community safety and anti-social behaviour. They will bring professional credibility, technical knowledge and leadership confidence needed to operate as the Council’s subject matter expert for Community Safety.

The successful candidate will have:

• Significant experience of leading complex services, managing performance, resources and risk, and providing clear advice to senior leaders and elected Members
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills, able to work collaboratively with internal teams, external partners, professional bodies and government agencies
• Ability to lead large teams through change, create a high-performance culture, and support staff to deliver high-quality, customer-focused services
• Degree qualification, or equivalent, in Criminology, Community Safety or similar and ideally registered with a relevant professional body

The London Borough of Barking & Dagenham offers a range of benefits, including flexible working, professional training and career development, and wellbeing initiatives.

The salary for this role is GBP 93,307 per year.