Business Administrator - Offender Management Hub

Ministry of Justice; Rottingdean; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A government agency in the UK is seeking an Administrator to provide essential support within the Offender Management administrative hub. This role involves processing various types of legal paperwork, maintaining communication with stakeholders, and organizing records accurately. Ideal candidates should have strong organizational and communication skills, and the ability to handle administrative tasks efficiently. This is a rotational position located in Rottingdean.

Qualifications

• Ability to fulfill spoken aspects of the role in English.
• Experience in administrative support is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide administrative support within the Offender Management hub.
• Process various types of paperwork for local courts.
• Organize and maintain accurate records for work area.

Skills

Administration skills

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Organizational skills

Job description

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.

Overview of the job

This is an administrative job in an establishment.

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.