Business Administrator

£29,107 - £30,648

A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

Alongside your salary of £29,107, HM Prison & Probation Service contributes £8,432 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).

• 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

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

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Please refer to the Job Description

Job holders within this Group Profile provide administrative support to managers and frontline staff by undertaking transactional work in a particular area.

The job holder is expected to be competent in their area of work, any specific qualifications or training required will be detailed in the relevant job description.

This is a non-operational role which may involve contact with prisoners depending on their area of work.

This role has no line management responsibilities.

Typical tasks associated with this Group Profile include:

• 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 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, distributing minutes and action points.

Permanent

Full-time

37 hour working week

Apply before 11:55 pm on Tuesday 1st December 2026

490719

Administrative Officer

HMPPS Band 3

Administration / Corporate Support

1

This position is based at HM Prison Ford, Arundel, BN18 0BX.

The job holder once in post will be in matched to a job description; a sample list is shown below. The post is rotational so the job holder could during their career carry out the role of different job descriptions.

• Business Administrator : Activity Hub
• Business Administrator : Business Hub
• Business Administrator : Employment
• Business Administrator : Equality
• Business Administrator: Mobilisation, Transition and Transformation (MTT) Administration Support
• Business Administrator : Resettlement Worker
• Business Administrator : Establishment Television Systems
• Business Administrator : Healthcare
• Business Administrator : Management Coordinator
• Business Administrator : New Colleagues Lead Administrator
• Business Administrator : Observation, Categorisation and Allocation (OCA)
• Business Administrator : Offender Management Hub
• Business Administrator : People Hub
• Business Administrator : Prison Digital Services Administrator
• Business Administrator : Programmes
• Business Administrator : Psychology
• Business Administrator : Regional Admin Support - Wales
• Business Administrator : Regional Admin Support - North East
• Business Administrator : Chaplaincy
• Business Administrator : Safe Decent and Secure
• Business Administrator : Safer Custody
• Business Administrator : Security Intelligence Collator
• Business Administrator : Social and Palliative Care
• Business Administrator : Substance Misuse and Drug Strategy
• Business Administrator : VCC Administrator
• Business Adminstrator : ID & Banking

• Changing and Improving
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together
• Managing a Quality Service
• Delivering at Pace

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Working Together

Please refer to the Job Description

For more information about the recruitment process, benefits and allowances and answers to general queries, please click the below link which will direct you to our Candidate Information Page.

Link: https://justicejobs.tal.net/vx/candidate/cms/About%20the%20MOJ

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• Name : SSCL Recruitment Enquiries Team
• Email : moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@resourcing.soprasteria.co.uk
• Telephone : 0345 241 5358

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