Business Administrator

Company: Ministry of Justice
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Location: Bristol
Job Description:

The job holder will provide administrative support within the Offender Management administrative hub, maintaining administration systems and servicing the local courts within specified timescales. This is a rotational, non-operational role with no line management responsibilities.

Responsibilities, Activities and Duties

  • Transactional activity for Offender Management:
    • Discharge Report / Pre-Discharge Report
    • Bail applications
    • Release on Temporary Licence (ROTL)
    • Home Detention Curfew (HDC)
    • Offender Assessment and Sentence Management (OaSys)
    • Multi‑Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA)
    • Re‑categorisation
    • Sentence calculations, including initial checks
    • Appeals
    • Violent Sex Offender Register (VISOR)
    • Multi‑Agency Risk Assessment Planning (MARAP)
    • 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
    • Category A administration
    • Recall paperwork
    • Public protection
  • Other administrative tasks:
    • Organise, produce and maintain accurate records for the area of work
    • Act as contact point for all communications to the team, prioritising and distributing them to the appropriate person or department
    • Complete monitoring returns for the area of work
    • Input requisitions into the finance database and process requisitions for the defined area of work
    • Co‑ordinate any awareness sessions for the area of work
    • Prepare paperwork for checking by the manager, including conducting sentence calculations as required
    • Correspond with relevant stakeholders and agencies to ensure 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 – organise agenda, take and distribute minutes and action points

Behaviours

  • Changing and Improving
  • Communicating and Influencing
  • Working Together
  • Managing a Quality Service
  • Delivering at Pace

Language Requirements

The role requires the ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in English, or in Welsh where specified in Wales.

Benefits

  • Annual leave (pro‑rated for non‑standard working patterns)
  • Bank, public and privilege holidays – 9 days (66 hours 36 minutes) added to annual leave allowance
  • Pension – choice of two Civil Service pension schemes
  • Hybrid working arrangements (flexible from base location, other MoJ sites or home) where business needs allow

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Posted: April 9th, 2026