Planning Officer 5 views

Salary: Band 7, £31,548 – £34,329

Location: Etal Lane Police Station

Hours/Contract:  37 hours per week, permanent

The role

Here at Northumbria Police, we think our region is amazing! It takes a great deal of people from different backgrounds, with diverse skills and experience to serve our force area effectively, think you have what it takes to help us make a difference? This could be the perfect time for you to join us in our Force Coordination and Operations Department as a Planning Officer.

The role of the Planning Officer is to work in line with policies and legislation plan events and operations including protected person visits making use of force procedures and working with multi agencies and partners.

You will be required to coordinate the planning process, as the conduit between key individuals both internal and external.

What you’ll do

• Liaison and co-ordination between Northumbria Police and various organisations as applicable in respect of royal visits, contingency planning and event planning to support the decision-making process.
• Prepare, review and evaluate plans for events, operations and VIP visits in order to ensure compliance with nationally agreed policy, codes of practice, regulations and other procedures affecting planning and maintain knowledge of this.
• The planner will be allocated events which may include major events such as the Great North Run, Pride, Music events or protests. This list is not exhaustive, events can be pre-planned or spontaneous with only a few days’ notice and the planner is expected to plan to a high standard in both scenarios. The planner will be expected to work in the Tactical Command room for some events.
• Assist in ensuring plans of other organisations are compatible with police service response, providing consultation and advice to ensure a common approach. Adapt planning skills in relation to specific operations.
• Demonstrating knowledge in relation to event and operational planning to organisers, council representatives and internal staff and contribution to the resolution of issues & problems during the planning phase.
• Represent the department or force at meetings, ensuring the views, interests and reputation of the organisation are presented and protected including safety advisory groups and other multi-agency meetings.

What you’ll bring

• Knowledge of planning, experience of report writing and administration.
• Demonstrable experience of organisational skills.
• Attention to detail.
• Flexible approach.
• Demonstrable experience of using own initiative to highlight areas for improvement with a range of solutions.
• An ability to motivate themselves and work well on their own, as well as part of a team.
• Able to utilise both written and verbal methods to communicate, including the use of a variety of ICT equipment and software.
• Experience in administration and measurable experience in dealing with stakeholders and partners.

We know it’s important for you to feel that you’re not only part of a great team, but part of a community. We welcome applications from suitably qualified people from all sections of the community, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.

Harnessing these differences creates a productive environment in which everyone feels valued, and their talents are fully utilised. Appointments are based on merit alone.

Just so you know

Our application form will help us understand how your work, education and life experience has prepared you for the role of a Planning Officer with #TeamNP. To help support your application research what makes us tick here at Northumbria, the role you’re applying for and the values and behaviours that contribute.

The recruitment process will consist of the initial application form followed by a face-to-face interview / exercise in late November / early December.

Just so you know, you can save your application and come back to it any time prior to the closing date on the advert.

We are proud members of the Business Disability Forum, with whom we collaborate with to improve the lives of disabled employees. We are also a Disability Confident Employer, therefore if you demonstrate that you meet the minimum criteria for this role as stated in the advert, we will progress your application and offer you an interview.

If you tell us that you have a disability, we can make adjustments to support you through the recruitment process (for example we can arrange extra time for tests or provide a sign language interpreter) You can get in touch with us via careers@northumbria.police.uk for any support regarding the application process. Please provide us with plenty of notice so we can ensure your visit goes smoothly.

If your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a Management Vetting (MV)/ Security Clearance (SC) form, therefore you must be a resident of the UK for a minimum period of 5 years to ensure vetting checks can be successfully performed.  A job offer will be dependent upon vetting clearance and medical information.

Terms of appointment

This is a permanent role subject to a six-month probationary period.

If you are successful in your application, you will have a 6month probation period with us where you will be unable to apply for any other post advertised internally or externally.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.