HM Prison and Probation Service
HMP Elmley Business Administrator (Ref: 22887)

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Job Description
Location: HM PRISON ELMLEY SHEERNESS, ME12 4DZ
Organisation Level: Delivery
Overview: Job holders within this Group Profile provide administrative support to managers and frontline staff by undertaking transactional work in a particular area. This is a non-operational role which may involve contact with prisoners depending on their area of work.
Typical Tasks:
- 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 initial checks as required
- Correspond with relevant stakeholders and agencies to ensure that they are aware of information
- 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, distributing minutes and action points.
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Essential Skills/ Qualifications/ Accreditation/ Registration:
- Job holders must complete specific training in their specialism once they take up post.
- An ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence through the medium of English or (where specified in Wales) Welsh.
Hours of Work and Allowances:
- 37 hour working week
Salary:
- £29,107
Benefits:
- HM Prison & Probation Service contributes £8,432 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.
- Access to learning and development
- A working environment that supports a range of flexible working options to enhance your work life balance
- A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
- Annual Leave
- Public Holidays
- Season Ticket Advance


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Selection Process:
- This vacancy is using Success Profiles, and will assess your Behaviours and Strengths.
Security:
- Successful candidates must undergo a standard (or equivalent) criminal record check.
- People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard checks.
Nationality Requirements:
- 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)
- 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
Diversity and Inclusion:
- The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found.
Contact Point for Applicants:
- Name: SSCL Recruitment Enquiries Team
- Email: moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@resourcing.soprasteria.co.uk
- Telephone: 0345 241 5358
Further Information:
- Appointment to the Civil Service is governed by the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles.
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