CD of Community Safety & Public Protection

Walthamstow, Greater London, United Kingdom

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London Borough of Waltham Forest

Contract Type: Full-time Permanent

Working hours per week: 36

Final date to receive applications: 01/03/2026

Proposed Interview Date(s): TBC

Reference:2009

About Us:

Bursting with culture, energy, and opportunity, the London Borough of Waltham Forest is a fantastic and exciting place to work.

We are a highly ambitious borough. Driven by culture and the innate creativity of our residents, we have developed new and innovative ways to build our communities. Our Council is relentlessly resident-focused, insight-led, digitally driven and commercially minded; a Council focused on meeting the needs of our existing and future residents.

London Borough of Waltham Forest is one of the Mayor of London’s Good Work Standard employers. This accreditation is a proof of our commitment to creating a healthy, fair and inclusive workplace. This includes fair pay and conditions, workplace well-being, skills and progression and diversity and recruitment.

About the role:

Community resilience, fear of crime and anti-social behaviour is consistently a top priority for our residents and political leadership. This is a pivotal role driving forward the Council’s mission to ensure safe, green neighbourhoods where everyone can thrive with a critical role in influencing decision-making and driving impact locally, regionally and nationally.

This role will lead the development of a new combined directorate, bringing a range of statutory and discretionary services together to ensure safe and secure neighbourhoods, ensuring the borough makes full use of all its powers. The post holder will have direct responsibility for delivery of strategies and operations to tackle anti-social behaviour, community safety, emergency and contingency planning, CCTV, private sector housing licensing, premises licensing, market trading, food safety and trading standards.

The post holder will implement and lead a new operating model for public safety within the Council that is grounded in resident engagement and participation, is data-led and influential in leading local partnerships. You will provide system leadership across the borough’s statutory Community Safety Partnership, developing a robust community safety strategy and ensuring that strong tactical and operational tasking arrangements are in place.

Retaining ambitious for our residents, you will demonstrate a cast iron grip on our finances and remain relentless focused on the impact for those that live and work in Waltham Forest.

The post holder will project our influence across London and national forums, demonstrating innovation and ambition and embody the borough’s commitment to tackling inequality in all that we do. You will lead on building on practical and strategic relationships with the Police ensuring the best outcomes for residents.

• Drive forward the Council’s mission to deliver Safe, green neighbourhoods where everyone can thrive.
• Ensure a coherent hierarchy of effective plans and strategies are in place to respond to priority threats and drive ambitious resident outcomes.
• Establish and maintain an integrated operating model of outreach, direct delivery, intervention, commission and case working functions.
• Prevent and tackle anti-social behaviour.
• Leadership of corporate resilience and maintenance of effective emergency planning and contingency management arrangements.
• Provide strong regulatory services which meet legislative requirements and protect the public.
• Manage the strategic relationship with the Police.
• Manage a complex Public Protection budget, leveraging external funding streams and maximising value of money.
• Manage external relationships; formally represent the Council; lead negotiation, partnership working and liaison with London wide and National agencies.

Qualifications and Requirements:

• Educated to degree level or equivalent standard.
• Professional accreditation related to one or more regulatory services in scope preferred

Terms and conditions:

• Satisfactory employment references and CIFAS…