PS/204/H A3 Watch Liaison Officer - Crime Reduction & Community Safety

Police Staff
CRCS
Hertfordshire Constabulary
Headquarters, WGC, Herts
Crime Reduction
Permanent
A3
19,572
Various
No
Working within Crime Reduction and Community Safety Department, this is an exciting and challenging opportunity to undertake a varied role within the Watch Liaison Team, who promote, develop and maintain Neighbourhood Watch within Hertfordshire.
More than 75,000 households in Hertfordshire are members of Neighbourhood Watch and this number is increasing by more than 500 every month. We communicate with our members using the Online Watch Link (OWL) system, sending local messages and alerts, crime prevention advice and other community messages.
Our Watch Liaison Officers (WLOs) are each allocated their own districts. We have three vacancies: One full-time vacancy, covering Dacorum, Three Rivers and Watford; and two part-time vacancies (25 hours each), one covering North Herts & Stevenage, the other covering Broxbourne & East Herts. Although the posts are based at Headquarters, you will regularly work at police stations within your allocated area. For the part-time posts, the 25 hour pattern can be individually agreed with the successful candidates.
Working closely with Safer Neighbourhood Teams and Neighbourhood Watch members, you will help to organise local meetings and events to promote and develop Neighbourhood Watch within the area. This will necessitate occasional, pre-planned evening working. You will also act as a “point of contact” for Neighbourhood Watch within your districts, responding to queries; providing advice; maintaining member records on the OWL system; and writing and sending OWL messages.
The successful candidate should have strong interpersonal skills, be a confident speaker and have the ability to write messages for dissemination to the public. The ability to travel within Hertfordshire is also required.
For further information or an informal chat please contact Penny Brown on 01707 354427.
For the purposes of the application you will be expected to provide evidence against the four personal qualities below and the entry requirements:
• Service Delivery
• Professionalism
• Decision Making
• Working with Others

There is a word count limit of 500 words per section.

Please note, if you are shortlisted for interview you will be expected to evidence against all personal qualities and the entry requirements stipulated in the role profile.
All applications must be received by the closing date.
We welcome applications from external candidates as well as internal staff from Hertfordshire Constabulary are eligible to apply for this post.
Please note that in the first instance priority will be given to any applicants in a redeployment situation.
Any individuals in a redeployment situation who are interested in applying for the role should contact the HRST (HREnquiries@herts.pnn.police.uk) and request the redeployee application form.
Please note that with immediate effect: Police Staff at risk of redundancy (redeployees) are given priority for all vacant posts. This means that if a candidate is successful for a position following an interview/assessment, the role will still be available to redeployees up until the successful candidate has received a final offer of employment. Therefore it is possible that a redeployee could be offered and given priority to the vacant post up until the point that the successful candidate has received their final offer letter.
If you are currently protected under the multiple impact mechanism, please contact your HR Advisor prior to applying for this post to see how it may affect your salary.

Police Officers who accept an offer of a Police Staff role will need to retire as an Officer and if they are currently on the 30+ Scheme, will need to leave that Scheme.
Police Officers considering retirement and being re-employed as Police Staff are required to read the attached Briefing Note as it contains important tax information regarding retirement and pension payments.
31 October 2014
5 November 2014
14 November 2014

This opportunity is closed to applications.