Hmpyoi Low Newton

**General Information**:

- Salary
- £27,040 - £28,472
- Working Pattern
- Full Time, Part Time, Part Time/Job Share, Flexible Working
- Vacancy Approach
- External
- Location
- Durham
- Region
- North East
- Closing Date
- 01-Jul-2026
- Business Unit
- Low Newton
- Post Type
- Permanent
- Civil Service Grade
- AO
- Number of jobs available
- 1
- Reserve List
- 12 Months
- Job ID
- 6778

**Descriptions & requirements**:

- Job description

**Summary**:
The jobholder will provide administrative support within the People Hub, ensuring that staff are supported through training, detail and all Human resource processes, maintaining administration systems within specified timescales for the establishment. This is a rotational, 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:

- Undertake a share of the transactional activity associated with the People Hub. This includes processing most or all of the following categories of paperwork and inputting data ready for checking and onward transmission by the Hub Manager:

- Training
- Attendance Management
- Staff Well Being
- Detail
- Self Assessment Reporting (SAR) engagement
- HR - Entry & Exit Processes
- Staff Engagement
- SPDR markings
- Staff availability for escorts
- NVQ facilitation requests
- Staff Engagement Survey
- Payment Plus hours
- Staff Reward and Recognition
- Work Life Balance
- Staff Leave
- Vetting Contact Point
- Immunisation/First Aid co-ordination

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 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 (w specified in Wales) Welsh.
- Additional Information

**Working Arrangements & Further Information**

If you are a current NPS employee, this vacancy may be available on a Loan basis for up to 2 years. Applications are invited from suitable qualified staff.

**Benefits**

**Annual Leave**
- The holiday year runs from 1 March. If you work a non standard work pattern your leave entitlement may be expressed in either hours or days as appropriate. Leave entitlement is calculated on a pro-rata basis and you will be advised of your actual entitlement on appointment. If you were appointed internally and your leave was previously calculated in days, this will continue to be the case.

**Bank, Public and Privilege Holidays**

**Pension**
- The Civil Service offers a choice of two pension schemes, giving you the flexibility to choose the pension that suits you best.

**Work Life Balance**

**Season Ticket Advance**

**Childcare Vouchers**

For any moves across the Civil Service may have implications on your ability to carry on claiming childcare vouchers

**Training**

HMPPS is committed to staff development and offers a range of training and development opportunities, including areas such as Equality and Diversity, Dealing with Challenging Behaviour, Suicide Prevention and Anti Bullying Programmes
- T are opportunities to access promotion programmes and HMPPS provides a variety of training appropriate to individual posts
- All staff receive security and diversity training and an individual induction programme into their new roles

**Eligibility**
- All staff are required to declare whether they are a member of a group or organisation which the HMPPS considers to be racist

**Working for the Civil Service**

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