Prevent Education Officer

Job description

Contract Terms

Starting salary: Pay Grade PO4, (£46,041 – £49,083)
Hours per week: 36 hours per week, Full-time
Contract type: FTC Until 31^st March 2025*
Closing date: Sunday 22nd September 2024

*Potential for extension until 31^st March 2026

About Haringey

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.

Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

About the Role

The Prevent Education Officer role is an exciting role that is designed to work closely with schools and colleges – developing resources to be delivered to pupils and students in order to equip them with the critical thinking skills that can help to safeguard against exploitation, as well as building awareness of vulnerabilities among teaching staff. 

Key deliverables include:

1. Develop appropriate training packages and lesson resources to ensure that educational and other professional settings are fulfilling their requirements under the Prevent Duty.
2. Provide expert advice on safeguarding concerns pertaining to radicalisation and extremism and develop and deliver briefings and training sessions to staff from the education sector.
3. Engagement with other services across the council and partners such as Children’s Services and Community Safety ensuring that the organisation is meeting its Prevent Duty.
4. Act as the point of contact for the DofE and the Home Office on Prevent delivery in education settings.

About the Team

The Safer Stronger Communities team is a busy and energetic team which includes various units such as ASB, Integrated Offender Management, Prevent, Hate Crime, Regulatory Services, and Waste Management. The post holder will work within a small, collaborative structure within the Community Safety Team and engage in projects and objectives that are contained within the Prevent strategy and contribute towards building community resilience against extremism and supporting those vulnerable to radicalisation in the borough.

About You

The successful applicant will be expected to demonstrate:

1. The ability to build strong relationships, encouraging co-operation and acting as the link between multiple contacts, both within and outside the Council.
2. Have demonstrable experience in delivering training to professionals and giving presentations and workshops to young people.
3. Excellent communication skills – interacting effectively with a range of partners, both in writing and orally.
4. Possess good knowledge and awareness of the government’s Prevent strategy, be politically aware and solve problems creatively whilst being informed by policy.

Working for Haringey

At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community. 

Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement up to 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and well-being support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.

Please note: we reserve the right to end this advert before the noted deadline if we receive sufficient applications. If you wish to apply for this role, please ensure that you do so as soon as possible.  

Additionally, we are aware that automated emails may be diverted through to junk email folders.  Please continue to check these through the application process.  If you have any questions about the status of your application, please contact ResourcingHub@haringey.gov.uk

 This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. An enhanced disclosure check with the DBS will be undertaken, additionally, SC clearance is also required for this post.  Please contact prevent@haringey.gov.uk if you wish to speak to a team member directly about the vacancy.