About the job

Job summary

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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. This includes 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.

Person specification

Please refer to Job Description

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £37,510, HM Prison & Probation Service contributes £10,165 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Strengths.https://justicejobs.tal.net/vx/candidate/cms/About%20the%20MOJ

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

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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Working for the Civil Service

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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.