What Works Practice Lead

This post can be based at our sites in either London (SE11 5EF), Ryton-on-Dunsmore (CV8 3EN), Durham (DL15 8DS), or Harrogate (HG3 1UF). Hybrid working opportunities can also be discussed prior to you taking up your post. This role is also available as a designated homeworking role.

This post is open to applicants who can meet the College’s nationality, UK residency and vetting requirements.

About us:

We’re the professional body for the police service in England and Wales and the What Works Centre for Crime Reduction. We work with everyone in policing to set standards, to share knowledge and good practice and to support the development of police officers and staff. Our mission is to drive a consistent approach across policing where the public and the service expect it, to boost professionalism and to improve leadership at every level. 

Although we’re a small organisation, our work has a big reach. We are uniquely placed to work both with national policing organisations, the community safety sector and local forces to support frontline officers, staff and volunteers in their day-to-day roles. 

We offer a supportive and inclusive environment for people to thrive. Our extensive flexible-working policy, employee wellbeing support, family friendly policies, employers network for equality and inclusion (ENEI) membership and status as a disability confident employer means everyone can bring their whole self to work.

We look forward to reading your application for the role of Practice Lead

The selected candidate will:

Develop and implement evidence-based resources, increasing the impact of the Crime Reduction Toolkit, Research Map and Practice Bank and ensure policing and crime reduction partners have easy access to the best-available evidence on what works to reduce crime.

Engage, build and influence a complex network of contacts to ensure that What Works products are viewed by all stakeholder working in crime reduction as a vital go-to resource.

Some of your responsibilities will include:

• To engage and build a complex and diverse network of national stakeholders from across policing, community safety and crime reduction, the What Works network and academia to inspire use and application of the best-available evidence, cost effectiveness and sharing of research and practice to inform problem solving approaches and provide better services for the public.
• To engage with internal and external stakeholders to ensure existing knowledge resources meet their needs and contribute to reducing crime and its impact on the general public, taking into consideration contextual implementation issues. To develop and extend existing resources, such as the Crime Reduction Toolkit and Practice Bank along with new tools to meet the needs of the What Works Centre stakeholders of the What Works Centre.
• Building capability within the College and policing to understand and use research evidence at all levels, including What Works. This includes supporting practitioner academics, the bursary scheme and being the content editor for our peer to peer publication Going equipped.. Increase the impact of research by fostering productive relationships between colleagues and researchers and providing opportunities for researchers to increase the impact of their research. 

To be successful in this role you’ll need:

• A Degree/Level 6 qualification in a related subject area (e.g. Social Science, Criminology, Law, Management, Policing) or equivalent experience
• Experience of problem solving and taking an evidence-based approach to developing products and resources to influence practice
• Evidence of evaluating and researching information from a variety of sources, coming to logical conclusions and communicating the quality of evidence effectively to non-specialists
• Ability to effectively challenge and influence others, including more senior colleagues and stakeholders, to ensure the right outcome is achieved 

Please see the attached job description which contains full details of the role.

 

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Communicating and Influencing
• Managing a Quality Service
• Working Together

We’ll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Evidence of evaluating and researching information from a variety of sources, coming to logical conclusions and communicating the quality of evidence effectively to non-specialists

Alongside your salary of £42,987, College of Policing contributes
£11,606 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.

Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

The College is a great place to work. We’re passionate about our people and offer a wide range of benefits, including (but not limited to):

• Defined benefit pension scheme with an average employer contribution of 27%
• Up to 30 days holiday (this is in addition to 8 public holidays and 2.5 privilege days)
• Continued professional development and structured career paths
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Flexi-time (for certain grades)
• A range of flexible working arrangements
• Benenden Healthcare
• National Dental Plan
• Discounts for on-line shopping
• Free employee support line
• Interest free season ticket loans
• Rewards and recognition scheme 

We also have a number of thriving staff networks that provide the opportunity for advice, support and to drive change. A place to get your voice heard, share experiences and challenge our working practices to ensure equality of opportunity for all.

 

For more information about our benefits and staff networks, visit What we offer as an employer , College of Policing

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• Name : College of Police HR Recruitment
• Email : recruitment@college.police.uk

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