Bexley is an outer London Borough with the best of both worlds, located between the hustle and bustle of London and the Garden of England, Kent. Within the borough we have award winning parks, open spaces and listed heritage sites.

The Community Safety Services Team is located within Communities Department. They have the responsibility of providing a multi-agency approach to reduce crime, disorder and anti-social behavior across Bexley and coordinating the Community Safety Strategy and delivery plan. 

Community Safety brings together the relevant statutory Partners of the borough who have a responsibility for this work which includes London Borough of Bexley, Metropolitan Police, National Probation Service, London Fire Brigade and Health along with voluntary organisations and other key local authority based services who come together to develop plans and strategies to reduce crime, disorder and anti-social behavior. 

 
The Community Safety Services team take the lead in several key community safety functions.  These currently include, monitoring and reducing Anti-Social behaviour, ensuring plans are in place in relation to the Prevent Agenda (Counter Terrorism and radicalisation) along with Integrated Offender Management and Serious Violence including all forms of exploitation and supporting high risk vulnerable victims.  

We currently have a vacancy for a 10 month fixed-term contract for a Violence Against Women & Girls and Modern Slavery Coordinator, finishing October 2025. 

For an informal discussion about the role please contact Emma Leathers, Community Safety Services Manager on Emma.Leathers@bexley.gov.uk. 

We will offer you in return a package that includes a competitive salary, an excellent pension scheme and generous annual leave plus bank holidays. For more information on the benefits package on offer please refer to the Candidate Information document attached.

We reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date.

The post will sit within Community Safety Services and will be managed by the Senior Community Safety Co-ordinator.  The post will lead on the implementation of our response to Violence Against Women and Girls agenda including Modern Slavery and also Hate Crime, engaging the local community, producing a multi agency action plan to deliver against the key themes.  This role will include: 
 

• Identifying key community groups and engaging them in solutions 
• Producing and Co-ordinating the delivery of the Violence Against Women and Girls action plan
• Raising awareness of the Violence Against Women and Girls priorities within the statutory and non statutory partner agencies within Bexley Community Safety Partnership 
• Co-ordinating the response and delivery of the Modern Slavery strategy and tool kit 
• Leading on engaging the community in relation to the relevant themes and safety awareness campaigns  

This is an exciting opportunity to join the busy community safety team.  You will need to have experience of working within the Modern Slavery and VAWG agenda working in a multi agency setting and identifying, supporting and engaging community groups .  The postholder would need to be able to work as part of a team as well as using own initiative.   

Some evening and weekend attendance may be required.

For the full list of essential and desirable criteria for this role then please refer to the Person Specification within the Job Description attached.

Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

This authority is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

This post is considered by the authority to be a customer-facing position; as such it falls within scope of the Code of Practice on English language requirement for public sector workers. The council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the JD/Person Specification. These will be applied during the recruitment/selection and probationary stages.    

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Additional Information

As a disability confident employer Bexley welcomes applications from people with all disabilities, including hidden disabilities and mental health conditions. We will interview any disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria. If you require reasonable adjustments to be made to any part of the recruitment process due to your disability, please contact us on recruitment@bexley.gov.uk.