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Business Administrator - Offender Management Unit (Ref: 21222)

HM Prison & Probation Service

Department
HM Prison & Probation Service
Location
This position is based at HMP Channings Wood Newton Abbot, TQ12 6DW
Openings
1 post
Grade
AO
Salary
£29,107 to £30,648
Closing
21 days left
Profession
Administration
Contract
Permanent
Security clearance
BPSS
Working pattern
Flexible working, Full-time
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Job summary

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What they’re looking for

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Behaviours you’ll be assessed on

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Job description

Overview of the job

This is an administrative job in an establishment

Summary

The job holder will provide administrative support within the Offender Management administrative hub maintaining administration systems and servicing the local courts within specified timescales for the establishment.

This is a rotational, non-operational job with no line management responsibilities.

Responsibilities, Activities and Duties

The job holder will be required to carry out the following responsibilities, activities and duties:

Undertake the transactional activity associated with the Offender Management function. This includes processing the following paperwork ready for checking and onward transmission by the Hub Manager:

  • Discharge Report / Pre-Discharge Report
  • Bail applications
  • Release on Temporary License (ROTL)
  • Home Detention Curfew (HDC)
  • Offender Assessment and Sentence Management (OaSys)
  • Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA)
  • Re-categorisation
  • Sentence calculations, including conduct initial checks
  • Appeals
  • Violent Sex Offender Register (VISOR)
  • Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Planning (MARAP)
  • Adjudications
  • Indeterminate Sentence Prisoners
  • Parole applications
  • Legal Correspondence
  • License Applications
  • Resettlement overnight Release
  • Prisoner Fines
  • Foreign Nationals/Deportation/Immigration
  • Risk to Children/Safeguarding Children
  • Harassment/Restraining Orders
  • Category A administration
  • Recall paperwork
  • Public Protection

Undertake other administrative tasks including:

  • Organise, produce and maintain accurate records for area of work
  • Act as contact point for all communications to the team. Prioritise and distribute communications to the appropriate person or relevant department in establishment
  • Complete monitoring returns for area of work
  • Input requisitions on to the finance database and process requisitions for defined area of work
  • Co-ordinate any awareness sessions for area of work
  • Prepare paperwork for checking by Manager, conducting sentence calculations as required
  • Correspond with relevant stakeholders and agencies to ensure that they are aware of information so that information is adequately shared
  • Maintain and check establishment databases, manual filing systems and logs of information, responding within agreed timescales and producing reports as required
  • Collate information relating to relevant Service Delivery Indicators (SDIs)
  • Act as secretary to meetings as required including organising agenda, taking and distributing minutes and action points

The duties/responsibilities listed above describe the post as it is at present and is not intended to be exhaustive. The Job holder is expected to accept reasonable alterations and additional tasks of a similar level that may be necessary. Significant adjustments may require re-examination under the Job Evaluation scheme and shall be discussed in the first instance with the Job Holder

An ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with the confidence through the medium of English or (where specified in Wales) Welsh.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

  • UK nationals
  • nationals of the Republic of Ireland
  • nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
  • nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
  • nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
  • individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
  • Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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Selection process

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Strengths.

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