Administration Officer

Location: HMP Brixton

Salary: £23,933 per annum

Vacancy Type: Permanent

Hours: Full Time

We are recruiting for an Administrator at HMP Brixton.

Here at Forward Trust, we deliver a complex range of drug and alcohol services in the unique prison environment. Our support includes providing advice, health and wellbeing, motivational work, clinical services, and a wider range of group work and treatment programmes.

The Forward Trust services which are delivered within prison settings are commissioned by NHS England and are delivered in partnership with primary healthcare providers and HMPPS. Integration and partnership are integral to the work we do.

We believe that everyone can live a fulfilling life, whatever their past. Our work in prisons aims to support those affected by drug or alcohol issues to create lasting change and reduce dependency, homelessness, unemployment and re-offending.”

Role Responsibilities

The Administrator is responsible for providing a comprehensive business administration service to support the Integrated Substance Misuse Team (ISMT). The service is designed to deliver psychosocial interventions, Clinical interventions and accredited treatment programmes for offenders coming into prison that are identified as having a drug or alcohol problem. You will be responsible for contributing and monitoring the targets set by Forward and the local commissioners. One of the key targets will be measuring outcomes, so co-operative working relationships with other partner agencies is vital to this role (example clinical teams). The purpose of this post is to ensure the smooth administration of the service, encompassing some secretarial duties, data entry collection and monitoring systems.

You will receive ongoing training including Prison training and training from the data team.

All prison-based roles will require enhanced DBS and HMPPS security vetting. Please note this process can take up to 8-12 weeks. All offers are subject to receiving both HMPPS vetting and DBS clearances.

Checks will require you to provide information on the below:

• Yourself (personal information, financial information, police information, criminal history)
• Your family (parents, parents’ partners, siblings, partner(s), children)
• Co-residents
• Associations that may cause a conflict of interest with your role or the prison service.
• Background checks across police information systems on you, your family and other associates
• Credit reference checks
• Social media and Open-Source checks (these are checks on content about you that's publicly available on the internet to ensure there's nothing linked to you that could undermine public trust and confidence in the prison service)
• Other government and overseas agency or police checks.

The Ideal Candidate

Please see below a list of skills and experience needed for this role:

• An intermediate certification or demonstrable experience in Microsoft packages.
• A minimum of nine months experience of providing administrative support within a large team, demonstrating ability to work in a pressured environment.
• Strong experience working with data surrounding drug and alcohol treatment – knowledge of NDTMS or other related experience.
• Experience of accurately collating statistical information, with an attention to detail and report writing.
• Experience of developing, implementing or maintaining large databases and managing administrative tasks associated with them.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the
• ability to deal with people of all levels and to work on own initiative in preparing correspondence.
• Willingness to develop an understanding of the aims of Forward and support the organisations ethos.

About Us

We are The Forward Trust, the social enterprise with charitable status that empowers people to break the often interlinked cycles of crime and addiction to move forward with their lives. For more than 25 years we have been working with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past. We believe that anyone is capable of lasting change. Our services have supported thousands of people to make positive changes and build productive lives with a job, family, friends and a sense of community.

We are committed to our cause and the work we carry out as a charity. Equally the wellbeing and the employees who work for us are also important. Joining us an employee, we will offer you the following benefits:

• Flexible working
• Training and development opportunities
• Simply Health Cashback Scheme (optional)
• Season Ticket Loan Scheme 
• Cycle to work scheme
• Crisis Loan Scheme
• Electric Car Scheme
• 3 x Wellbeing Days (pro rata'd for part time employees)
• Access to Blue Light Card
• 25 days (rising to 30 with length of service) Annual Leave plus Bank Holidays 
• Contributory Pension Scheme – Employer matched contributions of up to 6% in the first two years’ service and up to 9% thereafter 
• Death in Service Payment (2x annual salary) 
• Critical Illness Insurance (subject to qualifying criteria)

To Apply

If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for the Forward Trust, please proceed through the following link to be redirected to their website to complete your application.

https://careers.forwardtrust.org.uk/vacancies/58/administration-officer.html

Contact information

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