Prevent Officer

**Responsibilities**:

- Working with internal and external partners develop and deliver local Prevent action plans. Work collaboratively with Prevent partners in local authorities, schools; higher and further educational institutions, faith institutions and organisations, the health sector, the prison and probation service to assist with delivery.
- Through engagement, signpost individuals vulnerable to radicalisation into appropriate support mechanisms, such as Channel and Identify community intervention providers who can provide advice and support to individuals vulnerable to radicalisation.
- Co-ordinate the delivery of Prevent across the wider policing family, facilitating engagement with neighbourhood policing teams (NPTs), partner organisations, communities and groups to help drive the action plan. Identify and work with key individual networks to engage with on Prevent and advise Independent Advisory Groups or equivalent structures.
- Support front line staff and act as a community contact for any CT consequence management issues. Contribute to neighbourhood mapping within the CT context to help local policing colleagues understand the complex nature of the community at a local level. Gather and disseminate information, including on community tensions relating to CT issues, identifying joint action to address any issues.
- Manage workload through Prevent Case Management (PCM) enquiries, conducting vulnerability assessments; de-brief interviews and delivery of PCM tactics at the direction of the SIO set through regional tasking and managed through the force crime Niche system.
- Work with partners on community impact assessments of terrorism-related incidents, arrests and policing operations. Work with police and community partners to develop and deliver proactive communications in advance of terrorism-related operations.
- Contribute to neighbourhood mapping within the CT context to help local policing colleagues understand the complex nature of the community at a local level and to gather and disseminate information, including on community tensions relating to CT issues, identifying joint action to address any issues.
- Support activity across all four pillars of Contest providing tactical advice to CT SIO’s on Prevent options and capability, maintaining daily links with local policing to ensure that all Prevent activity is complimenting other CT activity. On direction of the SIO be deployed to the family of an SOI in order to assess and coordinate PCM activity.
- Manage and record new referrals - taking Information from all referral sources and interacting with internal partners to de-conflict and record on Prevent Case Management Systems. Act as a point of contact for internal and external enquiries regarding Prevent Case Management. Support Fixed and Flexible Prevent teams with data and information relating to referrals and interact with other CTPSE departments and other outside Partner Agencies.

**Required knowledge/skills**:
Essential:

- Good standard of education, with good numeracy and literacy skills including the ability to use Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel & PowerPoint.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to deliver presentations to large groups of people.
- Able to demonstrate a clear understanding of the National Prevent Strategy and of the Counter Terrorism & Securities Act 2015.
- Experience and understanding of working with diverse communities.
- Proven ability to maintain confidentiality and handle sensitive material.
- Proven Experience and understanding of partnership working.
- Ability to travel to different locations across the Thames Valley Police Force and South East Region.

Desirable:

- Specialist language skills.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £30,175.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Free parking
- On-site parking
- Sick pay
- Wellness programme

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Work Location: One location

Reference ID: 19989