12559 - Offender Management Hub Manager HMP Moorland

Ministry of Justice; Doncaster; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

A government agency in the UK is seeking an Administrative Manager to oversee processes within the Offender Management Hub. Responsibilities include managing staff, ensuring proper documentation and compliance with legal procedures, and contributing to policy development. The ideal candidate should possess strong skills in MS Word and Excel, alongside proven experience in administrative management. This role requires effective leadership and decision-making abilities in a corrections environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in administrative management within a corrections environment.
• Ability to manage transactional activities and staff performance.
• Demonstrated leadership and decision-making skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage the Offender Management function and administrative staff.
• Ensure compliance with court procedures and documentation.
• Contribute to policy development and manage budgets.

Skills

MS Word

MS Excel

Information collation and analysis

Job description

Overview of the job

This is an administrative managerial job within an establishment.

Summary

The job holder will be responsible for managing the administrative processes within the Offender Management Hub including court procedures, ensuring that prisoners received into custody are managed through their sentence and released from custody correctly in line with the National Reducing Reoffending Strategy. This is a non-operational job with line management responsibilities.

Responsibilities, Activities and Duties

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

Manage the transactional activity associated with the Offender Management function and the administrative staff within this area. This includes ensuring the following paperwork is complete, checked and ready for onward transmission:

• Discharge Report / Pre-Discharge Report
• Re-categorisation process and Boards
• Bail applications
• Completes management checks of Violent Sex Offender Register (VISOR)
• Release on Temporary License (ROTL)
• Home Detention Curfew (HDC)
• Public Protection
• Offender Assessment and Sentence Management (OaSys)
• Multi‑agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA)
• Sentence calculations
• Observation Classification Allocation (OCA)
• Prisoners allocation and transfers
• Appeals
• 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
• Probation
• Category A administration
• Resettlement

Undertake other administrative management tasks including:

• Contribute toward the development of local policy, procedures and practice and ensure consistency of application
• Manage devolved budgets in accordance with the financial procedures outlined in the budget delegation
• Manage the achievement of Service Delivery Indicators (SDIs) and standards within the work area, verifying and signing off documentation as appropriate
• Attend relevant unit meetings as and required to provide feedback on good practice examples, to promote awareness for better and more efficient ways of working
• Analyse and act on data collected by the Hub and produce any relevant reports to show findings
• Ensure that data entered into local and national systems is accurate and in accordance with agreed timescales
• Monitor performance of the Hub
• Draft all external and internal communications on behalf of the Hub
• Provide Head of Function with management information relating to the relevant area
• Be responsible for the management of all staff within their area, including staff performance, development and annual appraisal through to sickness absence management
• Act as first point of contact for relevant external stakeholders
• Act as requisitioner or approver dependant on local policy

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.

Behaviours

• Changing and Improving
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together
• Managing a Quality Service
• Making Effective Decisions
• Leadership

Essential Experience

Able user of MS Word and MS Excel; information collation and analysis.

Technical Requirements

Internal applicants

Newly promoted staff to the following Band 5 first line manager roles (Hub Managers, Custodial Managers and Facilities & Services Managers) in Establishments are required to complete a qualification as part of their work objectives where these training packages are available. Staff that have mapped or re‑graded to Band 5 who have previously worked at an equivalent level will not be required to undertake the qualification.

External applicants

All external staff joining as a Band 5 Hub Manager or Facilities and Services Manager in an Establishment are required to complete the qualification where available.