Essential skills required:

• Experience of working with young people in a social or education setting.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Experience of dealing and liaising with external agencies and community groups.
• Able to deliver lessons/sessions.
• Ability to build good working relationships.
• Good organisational skills and work with minimal supervision.
• Proficient use of Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Desirable:

• Experience of working in multi-agency environments

Hours of work: Core hours will be completed between 0800 and 1900 hrs Monday – Friday however, due to the nature of the role there will be a need for flexibility to work outside of these hours/days to fulfil the requirements of a Cadet Youth Engagement Officer. This in turn provides candidates with the opportunity to plan their schedule, allowing for an ideal work life balance. Cadet sessions are run during term time Monday - Friday for two hours on a set day. Additionally, the role will require individuals to accompany the Cadets on trips outside of the cadet sessions. The post will be based at the Neighbourhood Policing Unity partnership office and designated location for Cadet sessions.

Medical: Appointment to this role will be dependent upon successfully medical checks, which may include a drugs test and if required a fitness test.

Additional Information: Applications are required to undergo an Enhanced DBS in addition to vetting for the role.

Interviews: Interviews are likely to take place on Wednesday 10th January 2024 at Lloyd House Birmingham.

Contact: If you require any additional information about this role, please contact Helen Fenton via e-mail on: helen.fenton@westmidlands.police.uk.

POLICE CADETS SAFEGUARDING POLICY

West Midlands Police Cadets Safeguarding Statement.

The Volunteer Police Cadet (VPC) scheme is a national programme designed to provide a safe and secure environment where young people can meet with others and learn about policing and policing issues, contribute to community initiatives and take part in police organised activities and events. Allowing young people to have fun is at the heart of the experience too.

West Midlands Police is a provider of the VPC scheme through a number of Cadet Units across the force area. Each unit has a leader team comprising of police staff, police officers and adult volunteers, who follow policies, programme and procedures overseen by the Citizens in Policing Team, based at Lloyd House.
Our police cadets and the police staff, police officers and adult volunteers who support our cadet units all come from a wide variety of different backgrounds, so we will all uphold the highest standards in safeguarding and supervising our children, young people and adults at risk.

We will ensure that everyone involved in our Volunteer Police Cadet scheme knows what is expected of them, so that we can promote trust and confidence in what we do in our young people and the adult support networks that surround them.

We will build and maintain a culture where our young people and vulnerable adults are respected and listened to, know what safeguarding matters are and how they can confidently report any concerns they may have.

We will give equal priority to keeping our young people and adults at risk safe from all types of harm and abuse, regardless of their age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion, belief, sex or sexual orientation (all defined as protected characteristics within the Equality Act 2010).

We will ensure that all of our VPC staff and leader teams are checked and vetted by us prior to being able to participate in cadet unit work and activities, and will undergo a programme of continuous training for as long as they support the cadet scheme.

Our Safeguarding Policy and Safer Recruitment Policy are available for anyone to access and read and can be accessed here Safeguarding Statement | Volunteer Police Cadets (vpc.police.uk) .

Our Designated Safeguarding Officer for West Midlands Police is Chief Superintendent Anthony Tagg or Sam Booth, Head of Citizens in Policing. If you or anyone you know has any concerns about the safety or wellbeing of anyone involved in our VPC scheme, then please contact us Cadets@westmidlands.police.uk or alternatively you can contact:

National Safeguarding Manager for Volunteer Police Cadets at: vpc.safeguarding@vpc.police.uk
The NSPCC helpline 0800 800 5000 or email help@nspcc.org.uk
The Independent Office for Police Conduct 0300 020 0096 or cadets@policeconduct.gov.uk

West Midlands Police is a Disability Confident Leader - the highest level an organisation can achieve under the scheme run by the Department of Work and Pensions. As part of our commitment we operate a ‘Disability Confident Interview Scheme’ - all candidates who declare a disability and meet the essential criteria for the role will be offered an interview.

It is important to note that there may be occasions where it is not practicable or appropriate to interview all disabled people who meet the essential criteria for the job. For example: in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. In these circumstances, the employer could select the candidates who best meet the essential criteria for the job, as they would do for non-disabled applicants.

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