Admin Officer (AO) - Vacancy Management
Location: HMP Garth, Leyland (PR2-8NE)
Join a vital, non-operational admin team at HMP Garth and help keep day-to-day information flowing accurately and on time. This is a fantastic opportunity to make a real impact through strong administrative support-helping managers and frontline colleagues stay organised, informed, and compliant.
What you'll be doing:
- Maintain accurate records for your area of work and support effective administrative processes
- Act as the main contact point for communications-prioritising and directing messages to the right people or departments
- Complete monitoring returns and collate information relating to Service Delivery Indicators (SDIs)
- Input requisitions into the finance database and process requisitions for your defined area of work
- Coordinate awareness sessions and support with relevant paperwork and manager checks
- Keep establishment databases and manual filing systems up to date, maintaining logs and responding within agreed timescales
- Liaise with stakeholders and agencies to ensure information is shared appropriately
- Support meeting administration as needed, including agenda preparation, minutes, and action points
What you'll bring:
- Strong communication skills and confidence to handle spoken communication in English (and Welsh where required)
- A careful, quality-focused approach-keeping records accurate and work well organised
- The ability to work at pace while still meeting deadlines and service standards
- A collaborative attitude with a commitment to working together with managers and frontline staff
- A "changing and improving" mindset-always looking for better ways to do things
Additional information:
- Contract: 6 months, with extension potential
- Working hours: 9am-5pm, Monday to Friday (fully office-based)
- Parking: Available
Please note: security and identity checks are required before starting. External candidates will complete a 6-month probation period (internal candidates may also be subject to probation if they haven't served it in HMPPS). You'll also be required to declare whether you're a member of any group HMPPS considers to be racist.
Brook Street is proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, we guarantee to interview all candidates who are veterans or spouses/partners of military personnel, and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy.
As a Disability Confident Leader, and holder of the Gold Award status from the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme, Brook Street, as a supplier to the Public Sector Resourcing Framework (PSR), will offer you a guaranteed interview with a PSR Sourcer.
In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates/military spouses/partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, Brook Street will interview the best candidates from within that group.
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