GENERAL INFORMATION

Salary
£36,151 - £37,887
Working Pattern
Full Time
Vacancy Approach
External
Location
Sheerness
Region
Kent, Surrey & Sussex
Closing Date
19-Sep-2025
Business Unit
Elmley
Post Type
Permanent
Civil Service Grade

DESCRIPTIONS & REQUIREMENTS

Job description
This is an administrative managerial job within an establishment.
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.
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 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
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.
Additional Information

JOB DESCRIPTION ATTACHMENT

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  Band 5 HM Offender Management JD158 v5.0.pdf (Job Description Attachment)

Please refer the Job description for details