Ba: Safer Custody

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 271748**Salary**:

- £24,067 - £25,342**Job grade**:

- Administrative Officer- Band 3**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Type of role**:

- Administration / Corporate Support**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- This position is based at HM PRISON STAFFORD STAFFORD, ST16 3AWAbout the job

**Job summary**:

- Please refer to job description**Job description**:
**Overview of the job**

This is an administrative job in an establishment.

**Summary**

The job holder will provide administrative support to the Safer Custody team maintaining administration systems within specified timescales for the establishment.

This is a non-operational job with no line management responsibilities.

**Responsibilities, Activities and Duties**

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

- Collate, update and maintain information on Assessment, Care in Custody & Teamwork (ACCT) and violence reduction.
- Co-ordinate and arrange ACCT reviews and inform key stakeholders of current trends in self-harm and violent incidents.
- Follow up on information provided by Security Information Reports (SIRs), UK Borders paperwork and anti-bullying paperwork.
- Create manual and electronic files for each prisoner on arrival and maintain relevant systems.
- Record and report all incidents of self-harm/threats of self-harm and any acts of violence, informing relevant stakeholders.
- Report serious incidents of violence, self-harm and suicide attempts to Duty Governor on day of incident.

Undertake other administrative tasks including:

- 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 and distributing minutes and action points.

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.

An ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence through the medium of English or (where specified in Wales) Welsh.

**Person specification**:

- Please refer to job description**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Communicating and Influencing
- Working Together
- Making Effective Decisions

**Benefits**:

- 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 average employer contribution of 27%
- Annual Leave
- Public Holidays
- Season Ticket Advance

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**Selection process details**:

- This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Strengths.- Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.**Security**:
- 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 Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
- certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)**Working for the Civil Service**:

- The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
- We recruit by merit on the