Caseworker- Central Authorities Bureau

at  Ministry of Justice

Salary
£39,386 - £41,276
Number of jobs available
1
Detail of reserve list
12 Months
Region
London
City/Town
London
Building/Site

HEO

Organisation Grade for HMPPS
Band 5
Post Type
Permanent
Working Pattern
Full Time, Flexible Working
Role Type
Analytical, Business Management & Improvement, Quality, Security
Will the successful applicant have line manager responsibilities?
No
Job description

SUMMARY

The specialist administrative role provides expert advice and guidance to front line operational staff in the use of powers available to HMPPS for investigating criminal activity in prisons and probation operations. Quality assurance of all applications for deployment of covert activity and surveillance is completed by the post holder, ensuring that compliance with legislation and internal policies is observed, and recorded accurately.
The post holder will also oversee ongoing use of a case management system being implemented across the prison estate for the administration of applications, including contributing to configuration design, training design, and delivery of training sessions to operational staff in the use of the system.
Due to the nature of the role, the post holder is required to hold a minimum of National Security Vetting at Security Clearance (SC) level before taking up the post, and potentially may be asked to complete Developed Vetting (DV).

The job holder will be required to carry out the following responsibilities, activities and duties:

• Quality assure all applications for deployment of powers under RIPA 2000, liaising with Applicants and Authorising Officers to ensure compliance with legislation and HMPPS policy.
• Maintain and update the central record of applications, ensuring that management and performance information is available to managers on request, and highlighting any compliance issues in a timely fashion.
• Monitoring and supporting the administration of authorities once granted, to ensure that they are reviewed, renewed or cancelled in line with requirements.
• Staffing a helpline, which is available out of normal office hours, for which an on-call allowance will be provided.
• Provide policy advice on HMPPS use of intelligence, investigatory powers and related issues to front line staff, escalating to managers where required.
• Support inspection of HMPPS establishments, and the agency overall by IPCO, through liaising with prisons to identify dates for inspections, oversight of recommendation and issues, and provision of material for inspection as required.
• Support the CAB Manager, and the SOCT Operational Security Advisor in identifying and reviewing potential relevant errors in the use of surveillance or investigatory powers.
• Manage the CAB functional mailbox, to ensure that queries are dealt with, or directed elsewhere as required, to ensure efficient management of CAB business. This will include tasking of non-dedicated admin support, in liaison with the NIU Business Manager.
• Support the administration of IT systems required for the deployment of covert tactics, including Charter, BT Pins and any other system identified as being within the scope of the unit.
• Work with CAB manager in delivery of identified Business Change projects as required, either as project support, or leading on a project to specified timescales and quality standards.

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.