Community Safety Officer
Team: CMS - Safer Neighbourhood Team
Job Family: CBG8 - Directing
Salary: £31,022- £33,851per annum pro rata
Hours: 37 hours per week
Location: You will be expected to attend a CBC office location as often as needed to carry out your role, which will be no less than once per month
Contract Type: Hybrid – Fixed Term until 31st March 2027
Closing Date: 1st February 2026
Interview Date: 4th February 2026 - in person at Priory House, Monks Walk, Shefford, SG17 5TQ
About the role
Are you enthusiastic about improving the lives of Central Bedfordshire residents? Do you have the ability and skills to collectively make a real difference to enhancing community safety? If so, find your greatness by joining us as a Community Safety Officer.
The Community Safety Service tackles a wide range of often complex community safety issues, helping reduce crime and disorder and the fear of crime, and making people feel safer. Working together with our partners and communities you will make a key contribution to making Central Bedfordshire a great place to live and work.
As a Community Safety Officer, you will play a critical role in problem solving community safety issues across Central Bedfordshire. You will respond to intelligence led issues and the service’s priorities such as anti-social behaviour, cuckooing, serious violence, and knife crime. You will work with others to problem solve issues, to provide reassurance to residents and signpost to relevant services provided by the Council or other organisations. You will investigate reported offences and complaints and take appropriate action in line with Council procedures and statutory duties. You will also have a variety of Local Authority powers providing enforcement opportunities to tackle community safety issues, for example the ability to issue Fixed Penalty Notices.
You may have a community safety background or have experience of working in an enforcement role. Whatever your background, you must have excellent communication skills, working remotely, a customer focused approach, and be able to build collaborative working relationships with wider community safety partners. You’ll also have strong observational skills, be an effective problem-solver, and be able to work independently or as part of a team. Calm and collected, able to make decisions under pressure, with a Level 3 educational or professional qualification or extensive relevant experience, you’ll be IT-literate and able to multi-task.
Our Offer
We have a number of rewards and benefits available to our staff, to view these please visit our Rewards and Benefits page
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You will be expected to demonstrate how you meet the key accountabilities and competencies in this Recruitment Pack.
Our Competency Framework and Qualification Guidance are to be read in conjunction with our Recruitment Pack.
For an informal discussion about this position, please contact: Chloe Guffogg at chloe.guffogg@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk or call 0300 300 5688
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Safeguarding:
Central Bedfordshire Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all employees, volunteers and contractors to share this commitment. This post is subject to the disclosure of criminal records.
To maintain a fair and consistent approach for applicants, it is Central Bedfordshire Council's policy to only consider applications made via our online application system and we therefore thank you for not submitting your application offline.
Our National Careers Service team offer a free monthly workshop covering CV writing and how to complete the statement sections of the Central Bedfordshire Council online application form. This MS Teams workshop is open to anyone from the UK and lasts around 1.5 hours. Please book your place here.