KBSP Training and Development Officer

Full Time, Fixed Term for 12 months.

Do you want to play a key role in ensuring that professionals are equipped to safeguard vulnerable children and adults and contribute to safer communities? 

The Keeping Bristol Safe Partnership (KBSP) brings together statutory partners—including Bristol City Council, Avon & Somerset Police, BNSSG Integrated Care Board, Probation, and Avon Fire & Rescue—alongside a wide range of voluntary and community organisations. The KBSP Business Unit supports the partnership to deliver its statutory responsibilities and strategic priorities. 

One of these priorities is maintaining a strong, accessible, and innovative partnership training offer. Acting as the officer overseeing this, the role provides an exciting opportunity to influence practice across the city and make a real difference to the lives of children, young people, and adults. 

About the Role 

As the Training and Development Officer, you will lead the partnership’s training strategy and deliver high‑quality safeguarding and community safety training. You will design, deliver, and evaluate a range of training programmes, ensuring they reflect emerging local and national priorities. 

About You 

We are looking for a confident, proactive, and resilient individual who can work strategically and thrive in a varied and fast‑paced environment. 

You will bring: 

• Experience working in multi‑agency safeguarding, community safety partnerships, or similar settings supporting vulnerable individuals. 

• A strong understanding of current safeguarding and community safety developments, both locally and nationally. 

• Proven ability to design and deliver engaging training using a variety of methods and formats. 

• The ability to utilise data to adapt training delivery and strategy 

• A strong understanding of how inequity, prejudice and discrimination work and know how to adapt training approaches in response.  

• Excellent time‑management skills, with the ability to work under pressure and manage competing priorities. 

• A recognised qualification in a related profession and/or substantial practitioner experience delivering safeguarding training for children, adults at risk, and/or community safety services. 
  
  

This is a key role in strengthening Bristol’s safeguarding and community safety workforce. If you are passionate about partnership working and committed to improving outcomes, particularly for excluded and vulnerable people, we would love to hear from you. 

Please note that this role is subject to an Enhanced DBS Check.

Why Bristol City Council?  

At Bristol City Council, we go that extra mile for our people; we offer a work environment which is fast moving and supportive, giving you the chance to use your skills and develop new ones within a high-profile organisation. For the majority of our role's hybrid working arrangements are available, balancing service need and individual choice by mixing home and office working. 

Join us and you’ll receive an excellent rewards package including flexible working and flexitime, membership of the Local Government Pension scheme, and a generous annual leave allowance. In addition, you’ll be working in a supportive environment where you’ll have the chance to make Bristol a better place and contribute to its future. 

How do I apply? 

If you share our values and are ready to be part of our exciting journey, please select the apply button below. 

To be shortlisted for interview you’ll need to demonstrate how you meet each of the essential criteria in the Person Specification within the Further Information section of your application. On occasion we will receive high numbers of applications, we may then shortlist against the desirable criteria along with the essential criteria, so if you can, please demonstrate how you meet this in your application. 

For permanent Bristol City Council employees, this post will be a secondment.

For employees who are currently on a fixed term contract with Bristol City Council, the secondment must not extend beyond the end of the fixed term period to ensure there is a substantive post to return to.

If you are currently a casual worker or a member of an employment agency (currently working with Bristol City Council) this post will be a fixed term contract.

We're a Disability Confident employer which means we value recruiting and retaining disabled people. Any job applicants who consider themselves to be disabled and meet the essential criteria in the Person Specification are guaranteed an interview. We'll make reasonable adjustments throughout the interview process and provide continued workplace support throughout your career.

Closing date: 26th April 2026.

Provisional date for Interviews: w/c 4th May 2026.

What’s This Job Like To Do? If you are interested in this job but want a better sense of what it’s really like, or have questions about the application process, come along to one of our sessions. 

16th April 2026 1500hrs 

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17th April 2026 1330hrs 

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Bristol City Council strives to have a workforce that reflects the communities it serves, we are therefore committed to ensuring diversity in our hiring process. We welcome, develop and promote people from all sections of the community. Appointments will be made on merit. 

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