Full Time, Fixed Term until 31st March 2027.
Make a difference in your community and help shape safer neighbourhoods across Bristol.
Bristol City Council is looking for a passionate and driven Safer Commuities Officer to join our Safer Communities team. This pivotal role will have a focus on hyper-local, place-based work, ensuring that the voices of communities are heard, represented, and acted upon by the Council and our partners.
If you are committed to reducing crime, strengthening partnerships, and empowering communities to lead positive change in their neighbourhoods, we’d love to hear from you.
About the Role
You will play a key role in supporting the delivery of Bristol’s Community Safety Partnership (CSP) Plan, working collaboratively across the Council, local partners, and communities to improve safety outcomes.
A central focus of the role is working closely with local communities to understand their priorities, co-design solutions, and develop tailored, hyper-local action plans that respond to the unique needs of each area. You will ensure that community insight and lived experience directly influence decision-making and service delivery.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Champion community voice: Act as a bridge between communities, the Council, and partners - ensuring local concerns and priorities shape strategy, planning, and delivery.
- Deliver hyper-local solutions: Support communities to reduce crime and disorder through the creation, implementation, and delivery of localised action plans.
- Shape strategy and policy: Influence and support the development and delivery of the Community Safety Partnership Plan and related strategies.
- Lead partnership working: Collaborate with internal teams, statutory partners, and voluntary/community organisations to tackle crime and disorder.
- Drive key priorities: Provide expertise and leadership across community safety themes including serious violence, anti-social behaviour, domestic abuse, hate crime, modern slavery, and reducing reoffending.
- Monitor impact: Track performance and evaluate the effectiveness of projects, ensuring outcomes are evidence-based and aligned to strategic objectives.
- Secure funding: Identify and support bids for external funding to enhance community safety initiatives.
- Engage and influence leadership: Ensure senior decision-makers are informed and engaged in community safety priorities and initiatives.
Why Bristol City Council?
At Bristol City Council, we go that extra mile for our people; we offer a work environment which is fast moving and supportive, giving you the chance to use your skills and develop new ones within a high-profile organisation. For the majority of our roles hybrid working arrangements are available, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice - mixing both home and office working.
Join us and you’ll receive an excellent rewards package including flexible working and flexitime, membership of the Local Government Pension scheme, and a generous annual leave allowance. In addition, you’ll be working in a supportive environment where you’ll have the chance to make Bristol a better place and contribute to its future.
How do I apply?
If you share our values and are ready to be part of our exciting journey please select the apply button below.
To be shortlisted for interview you’ll need to demonstrate how you meet each of the essential criteria in the Person Specification within the Further Information section of your application. On occasion we will receive high numbers of applications, we may then shortlist against the desirable criteria along with the essential criteria, so if you can, please demonstrate how you meet this in your application.
For permanent Bristol City Council employees, this post will be a secondment.
For employees who are currently on a fixed term contract with Bristol City Council, the secondment must not extend beyond the end of the fixed term period to ensure there is a substantive post to return to.
If you are currently a casual worker or a member of an employment agency (currently working with Bristol City Council) this post will be a fixed term contract.
We're a Disability Confident employer which means we value recruiting and retaining disabled people. Any job applicants who consider themselves to be disabled and meet the essential criteria in the Person Specification are guaranteed an interview. We'll make reasonable adjustments throughout the interview process and provide continued workplace support throughout your career.
For further information, please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification or alternatively, please contact [email protected]
Bristol City Council strives to have a workforce that reflects the communities it serves, we are therefore committed to ensuring diversity in our hiring process. We welcome, develop and promote people from all sections of the community. Appointments will be made on merit.
The personal information section (including your name) you’ll complete as part of the application form will not be visible to hiring managers, but is used confidentially to make sure that everyone is treated fairly.
