Admin Officer

**General Information**:

- Salary
- £24,202
- Working Pattern
- Full Time, Part Time, Part Time/Job Share, Flexible Working
- Vacancy Approach
- External
- Location
- Manchester, Stockport, Wigan
- Region
- North West
- Closing Date
- 24-Mar-2025
- Post Type
- Permanent
- Civil Service Grade
- AO
- Number of jobs available
- 26
- Job ID
- 3542

**Descriptions & requirements**:

- Job description

**Proud to serve. Proud to keep justice going.**
- Our Admin Officers play a critical role, providing excellent administrative support and customer service to court users, judiciary and management.

**About us**
- HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) is responsible for the administration of criminal, civil and family Courts and Tribunals in England and Wales. Our roles support our court users and colleagues within HMCTS, w people and businesses access potentially life-changing justice. We’re looking for individuals who are committed to public service and making a difference in people’s lives to deliver justice. If you are interested in developing a career with a real purpose, please apply.

**Your role**

Working as part of a team, you will contribute to the overall operational, performance and service standard targets across your area of work. You will progress cases through the court/tribunal system and provide administrative support to functions within HMCTS. You will have regular contact with court / tribunal users, which could include members of the Judiciary and the legal profession.

You will be adaptable, able to multi-task and effectively carry out a variety of duties, which will include:

- Preparing papers and files for court, tribunals, hearings and meetings
- Creating and updating records on our in-house computer system and data input
- Resulting courts accurately, interpreting accurately the information required on a court file.
- Checking and verifying documents, records, accounts, claims and returns for approval, results, statistics, plans etc. against criteria, regulations or procedures.
- Collecting and assembling information for returns, results, accounts, statements, warrants, statistical analysis, reports, etc
- Communicating with the Public, the Judiciary, other Court and Tribunal Users and Representatives of other Agencies and Organisations

**Your skills and experience**

Please refer to the job description attachment for more information.

**Please make sure that you include your current duties and responsibilities in your CV.**

**Further details**:
**Applications for part-time working would be considered however due to the nature of the role the minimum hours would be 22 hours per week over 3 days.**
- T are 26 posts:
Manchester County Court Civil (10 posts)

Manchester County Court Family (5 posts)

Manchester Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (5 posts)

Manchester Employment Tribunal (4 posts)

Stockport County Court (1 post)

Wigan County Court (1 post).
- Additional Information

**Working Arrangements & Further Information**

For current MoJ employees, your base location will need to be changed to the nearest viable office (to your home postcode), either at a HQ building, JCC or JSO within the National Office Network and moved its location’s respective pay scale (any legacy arrangements/locations will need to be amended).

**Flexible working hours**

**Benefits**

The MoJ offers a range of benefits:
**Annual Leave**

Annual leave is 25 days on appointment and will increase to 30 days after five years’ service.

T is also a scheme to allow qualifying staff to buy or sell up to three days leave each year. Additional paid time off for public holidays and 1 privilege day. Leave for part-time and job share posts will be calculated on a pro-rata basis.

**Pension**

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

**Training**

The Ministry of Justice is committed to staff development and offers an extensive range of training and development opportunities.

**Networks**

The opportunity to join employee-run networks that have been established to provide advice and support and to enable the views of employees from minority groups to be expressed direct to senior management. T are currently networks for employees of minority ethnic origin, employees with disabilities, employees with caring responsibilities, women employees, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees.

**Support**
- A range of ‘Family Friendly’ policies such as opportunities to work reduced hours or job share.
- Access to flexible benefits such as voluntary benefits, retail vouchers and discounts on a range of goods and services.
- Paid paternity, adoption and maternity leave.
- Free annual sight tests for employees who use computer screens.

**Working for the Civil Service**

The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in th