Equality Policy & Admin Specialist (Hybrid)

The Methodist Church in Britain; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 22,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Civil Service pension schemes

Flexible working

Season ticket loan

Training and development

Job summary

The Methodist Church in Britain is seeking a Business Administrator to support the Equality Advisor at Swinfen Hall, part of HMPPS within the Ministry of Justice. The role covers equality administration, including disability forms, annual reports, SMART data, and the Equality Action Plan, with non-operational duties and a hybrid UK work pattern.

Key duties involve policy reviews, data recording, meetings support, and coordinating events and audits.

Qualifications

• Relevant experience evidenced in a statement of suitability.

Responsibilities

• Provide administrative support to the Equality Advisor and keep administration systems running within set timescales.
• Process, collate and monitor Disability Incident Reporting Forms and other equality applications and requests.
• Produce annual equality reports, statistics and impact assessments, and contribute to monitoring the Equality Action Plan.
• Report outcomes and key findings to the Governor and Equality Management Team, tracking investigations against timescales.
• Monitor monthly SMART data and highlight issues to the Equality Management Team.
• Review and monitor local equality policies against national policy.
• Coordinate the Equality Action Plan with the establishment's Equality Action Team.
• Record disability matters, identify disabled and elderly prisoners at reception, and arrange support where needed.
• Run the system for prisoners to declare disabilities and request reasonable adjustments, and contribute to business cases for equipment.
• Organise equality promotion events, disability training and focus groups for disabled prisoners.
• Carry out diversity audits and report findings to the Senior Management Team.
• Act as secretary to meetings, including agendas, minutes and action points, and handle requisitions, records and correspondence.

Skills

Spoken English

Welsh (where specified)

Job description

The Methodist Church in Britain is seeking a Business Administrator to support the Equality Advisor at Swinfen Hall, part of HMPPS within the Ministry of Justice. The role covers equality administration, including disability forms, annual reports, SMART data, and the Equality Action Plan, with non-operational duties and a hybrid UK work pattern.

Key duties involve policy reviews, data recording, meetings support, and coordinating events and audits.