Team Lead

**About The Role**:
**Working Hours**:35 Hours per week

**Contract Type**:Full-Time, Permanent

**Additional Payments**:6.7% Flexibility Payment

**Closing Date**:24 October 2024

**Interview Method**:In Person (Face to Face)

**Police Vetting** - You will be required to undertake a Greater Manchester Police vetting process.

You will have line management responsibility for a team of Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB) Case Officers and ASB Support Officers who are dedicated and motivated to make Manchester City Centre a safe place to live, work and visit. This vacancy presents a rare opportunity to join a team recognised for best practice in tackling ASB. You will lead and support your team to use a broad range of informal and formal powers to protect those who are vulnerable, reduce crime and ASB and change the behaviour of offenders.

You will also need to lead on face-to-face public engagement, encouraging a high profile, visible presence with partner agencies in the City Centre.

You and your team will work a rota pattern between the hours of 8am - 8pm Monday to Friday and 9am - 5pm on Saturday.

**About the team / service**

The Anti Social Behaviour Action Team is comprised of three teams covering the City Centre, the North, and South and Central. This position is dedicated to Manchester City Centre. The Anti Social Behaviour Action Team is part of the wider Community Safety, Compliance and Enforcement Service.

You will find a supportive working environment with opportunities for training and development. You will be encouraged to develop new ideas and approaches to meeting our key objective of making Manchester City Centre safer.

You will need to be a knowledgeable and experienced ASB practitioner with line management experience, or experience of coaching and training ASB practitioners. You will need to demonstrate:

- Experience of using informal and formal ASB powers to stop anti-social behaviour and protect the public.
- Experience of developing positive and effective working relationships across a variety of partnerships.
- Confidence in your ability to lead a team and support, guide and coach team members to meet the challenges presented by Manchester City Centre community safety and ASB issues.
- Ability to make informed decisions at speed and explain your rationale for your decision making.
- The ability to design and develop training packages across the Community Safety Partnership.

**About Us**:
We’re the local government authority for Manchester, and have teams across the city helping to make this a great place to live for everyone. We’re proud to do local government differently, in a city with an international reputation for diversity, creativity, culture and passion.

When you join us, you’re joining a team of over 7,000 council staff helping to make our ambition for Manchester a reality. Whatever your role, you’ll be supporting our residents and communities to be the best they can be, and helping to build a Manchester that's fairer for everyone who lives, works, volunteers, studies or plays here.

To make our ambition a reality, every person we recruit needs to play their its part. It takes a certain type of behaviour, attitude and way of working to get Manchester where it wants to be. Our people and partners have agreed five ‘behaviours’ - the grounding for how we must work together and treat one another:

- We take time to listen and understand
- We work together and trust each other
- We show that we value our differences and treat each other fairly
- We ‘own it’ and we’re not afraid to try new things
- We’re proud and passionate about Manchester

A career with us means you can be yourself, thrive, and build the career your talent and ambition deserve.

**Creating an inclusive team at Manchester City Council**

**Guaranteed Interview Scheme**

As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the below criteria:

- Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
- Are currently in care, or have previously been in care
- If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition

**Accessibility**

As a Disability Confident Employer, we provide support for employees with physical or mental-health conditions, a disability or neurodiversity. Our workplaces are accessible by design, and we make workplace adjustments including providing aids, adaptations and equipment. These, combined with our flexible working policies such as disability-related leave, enable our employees to perform their role, thrive and be their authentic selves in work.

**What we will need from you if **you’re** successful**

If you are successfully offered a position with us, the pre-employment checks you will be asked to undertake will depend on the role you've applied for. As a guide, these may include:

- Passport/ID: You will be re