Prevention & Intervention Manager

Are you someone with innovative, creative and excellent decision making skills?

Are you a leader with fantastic communication and negotiation skills?

Do you have commitment and passion to develop this role into something really special?

A Prevention & Intervention Lead are required for a Permanent Contract role paying up to £31,633.46 per annum plus £2,570 London Allowance with British Transport Police (BTP) based in Force Headquarters, London. 

BTP is the national police Force for the rail network throughout Great Britain, including London Underground, across which we ensure the safety and security of nearly 3 billion passenger journeys and over 100 million tons of freight every year. The world in which we work is fast-paced, operationally and commercially demanding, and constantly changing. As a Prevention & Intervention Lead with BTP you will proactively drive developments, improvements, and standards through detailed awareness and understanding of Professional Standards priorities and investigations to ensure efficiency and consistency across the Force.

Develop professional working relationships with partner agencies, staff associations and professional bodies to ensure investigations into public complaints, conduct or performance matters are dealt with efficiently and effectively.

Create and maintain regular communication processes that support staff and ensures positivity, accountability and responsibility across the divisions and departments.

Identifying, reflecting and proactively engaging on lessons learnt, themes, trends and risks identified on a regular basis.

As a Prevention & Intervention Lead you will be required to:

• Lead, manage and proactively communicate professionalism lessons learned processes in accordance with the requirements set out by the IOPC, HMIC, legislation and other governing bodies.
• Take responsibility for the development and implementation of organisational learning, including liaison with key stakeholders throughout BTP to maintain improvements, reduce financial and reputational risk to the organisation as a result of civil litigation.
• Identify new methods of reducing complaint, conduct or poor performance, whilst improving the service that the department can offer both internal and external customers. Development and maintenance of all systems aimed at reducing complaint levels across the Force.

Further information about this vacancy can be found in the attached job description.

The successful Prevention & Intervention Lead will be required to evidence the following skills:

• Good standard of general education of at least Degree standard or equivalent training/experience
• Strong influencing and interpersonal communication skills with the sensitivity to provide support across a variety of situations.
• Experience of establishing good working relationships with colleagues and stakeholders (internally and externally) and across varying levels of seniority.

If you are interested in applying to this Prevention & Intervention Lead role then please do not delay as interviews will be held as soon as appropriate candidates are highlighted. In return for your experience, we can offer you:

• Salary up to £31,633.46 per annum plus £2,570 London Allowance
• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Final salary pension scheme
• Other benefits include a bespoke BTP rewards platform and various salary sacrifice schemes such as cycle to work and childcare as well as many high street and online retail discounts

How to apply:

Please submit a cover letter and CV.

We want our organisation to be as diverse as the community it serves and welcome applicants from all sections of the community. In order to apply, you must have the permanent right to live and work in the UK and have been resident in the UK for the previous 3 years. You will be asked these and other questions to determine your eligibility to work for British Transport Police when you start your application and you must answer honestly.

Candidates internal to BTP must confirm that they are not subject to formal action plans for sickness/complaints/discipline or poor performance, that all mandatory training courses have been attended and are in ticket/up to date, that a ‘Competent’ rating, or above, was achieved on the last reporting year PDR and they have completed their tenure period (12 months) for current substantive posting.