Community Safety Caseworker
Job Description
Job title: Community Safety Caseworker
Company: Brighton & Hove City Council
Job description: Job introduction
We are seeking to recruit a Community Safety Caseworker to the Safer Communities Team’s Community Safety Casework Team.
Interviews to be held Thursday 15th February
Start date: Successful candidate(s) will be able to start on or after 1 April 2024 subject to pre-employment checks being completed.
For an informal discussion, please contact Siobhan Bostock – Senior Community Safety Caseworker on 07880 043356/ siobhan.bostock@brighton-hove.gov.uk.
About the role
Do you want to support our communities responding to Anti-social Behaviour and Hate Incidents? Are you able to work with socially excluded adults, young people and families? Do you enjoy working as part of a team and have excellent communication and negotiation skills? Do you the ability to network and form effective links with different agencies and organisations?
If so, you may be interested in our role for a Community Safety Caseworker within the Safer Communities Team, which delivers community safety and related services to individuals and communities in Brighton and Hove on behalf of Brighton & Hove City Council.
Within the Safer Communities Team is the Community Safety Casework Team (CSCT). The principle aim of the CSCT is to work with individuals and communities to tackle, prevent and reduce the harm caused by Hate Incidents & anti-social behaviour. We use a range of tools and powers available to support and protect both victims and witnesses, and to encourage and require perpetrators to address and change their behaviours. Our approach is underpinned by restorative practice, and it uses restorative interventions whenever appropriate.
In responding to concerns within the community we work with a range of partner agencies including Police, Housing providers, Probation, Youth Offending Service, Child and Adult safeguarding agencies, local businesses, and the voluntary and community sector.
You will have experience of casework and a background of engaging with vulnerable people, multi-agency working and problem solving, and will be motivated to make an effective and real contribution to community safety in Brighton & Hove. You will manage your own caseload, co-ordinating both victim and perpetrator action plans, ensuring that supportive interventions and enforcement measures are used when necessary and appropriate.
You will work within a team of caseworkers sharing responsibility for providing a duty service during office hours, taking reports and enquiries regarding anti-social behaviour and Hate Incidents and providing advice, guidance and support to a diverse range of local residents, communities and professionals across the city.
You will receive job specific training in restorative practice, relevant tools and powers and supportive interventions, and will receive regular supervision and ongoing support.
You will need to complete an enhanced DBS check as part of the recruitment process.
Contract: Full Time – 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday (with occasional evening work).
Please read our pages carefully. They give you all the guidance you need to complete your application as well as information on what will happen after you’ve submitted your application and at interview.
As part of your application, you will need to complete your education and work history and upload a supporting statement. Your supporting statement is the most important part of your application as it will be used in the shortlisting process to assess whether you meet the essential requirements for the role that are set out in the person specification and to decide whether you should be offered an interview. Before you start your application, please read our guidance here ( as this gives important advice which will increase your chance of success in the shortlisting process.
Additional information
Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.
We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining.
Working arrangements are subject to Government guidance at the time. Your contractual location will be the designated council office for your team and travel to and from your contractual location would be at your own expense.
For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit
Company information
Encouraging a diverse workforce
Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it’s what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.
Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our actions, our and the work we are doing to .
Please note that this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, and is subject to a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Check.
Expected salary: £32076 – 36648 per year
Location: Hove, East Sussex
