The HMCTS Operational Support Officer is the first point of contact for our users, judicial office holders, and partner agencies, providing exceptional customer service, including those who are vulnerable or who have additional complex needs This versatile role is at the heart of delivering day-to-day administrative and operational support to a variety of functions, including facilitating all types of hearings across all HMCTS business areas and will have a direct impact on the delivery of justice. This role may be based in Courts and Tribunal sites or across National Services and Criminal Fines Collection and Enforcement.
The role will support HMCTS users in a variety of ways, including (but not limited to), in-person, over the telephone, digital and written communications. The HMCTS Operational Support Officer will help maintain the smooth flow of operations, dealing with a wide range of enquiries and resolving issues to prevent delays to cases or services. This role will perform a variety of general administrative duties and manage user contact to assist in the running of functions across HMCTS operational business areas, making use of digital channels to work closely with colleagues, judicial office holders, and other stakeholders. The purpose of this role is to support the operational delivery of a high-quality service, supporting the delivery of justice, both in and outside of hearings and across the range of HMCTS operations.
The Operational Support Officer role may work across multiple business areas, undertaking a range of activities as and when required driven by business need.
The following list provides a summary of some of the activities that may be performed, and is not exhaustive:
Customer Service
Undertake all administrative tasks to prepare for, facilitate, and result all types of hearing.
Provide users and stakeholders with or signpost them to appropriate available support via face to face engagement, telephone and webchat interaction (incoming and outbound), and responding to correspondence in a range of formats. This includes users with specific and potentially complex needs, providing clear and consistent information to aid all users to participate in justice effectively.
Use HMCTS service scripts and knowledge articles to direct users to relevant services, ensuring users are provided with appropriate and specific information relating to their query, utilising all contact methods.
Follow complaints policies and procedures, supporting users through the process and providing immediate response as necessary to prevent escalation and updating OPTIC as required.
Identifying risks relating to HMCTS buildings, informing the Senior Person on Site (SPoS) as required, and provide immediate response as necessary.
Operational Support
Process work using standard operating procedures to meet performance targets and maintain operational and service standards.
Handle case files, ensuring accurate data entry, secure information management, and compliance with retention and data loss protocols.
Manage jury service tasks, including selection, deferral, reassignment, and attendance tracking, as well as processing related expenses and court fees.
Assist with listing and scheduling, ensuring efficient use of judicial time, responsiveness to urgent matters, and adherence to listing policies.
Provide dedicated judicial business support, such as diary coordination and administrative tasks, as locally required.
Support enforcement procedures, including conducting financial assessments, aiding fine collection, and producing basic statistical and financial reports.
Contribute to health and safety operations, including PEEPs, facility checks, issue logging, and key/safety governance under team leader guidance.
Any ad hoc or additional duties that may be required by business need that is appropriate to the grade of the role.
Essential
Ability to work flexibly as part of the team, undertaking tasks delegated by the Team Leader to enable the delivery of team and business priorities.
Digital skills, including proficiency with Microsoft Office applications and other databases.
Communication skills to undertake broad customer service and administrative tasks and explain complex procedures to users in potentially difficult scenarios. Develop and utilise effective working relationships with stakeholders across the organisation, and partners, to support service delivery. Utilising proactive resolution skills to resolve routine problems and escalating them where appropriate.
Customer Service skills to effectively respond to user needs and support requirements to enable effective participation, including witnesses in hearings and cases that may involve complex situations and users, dealing in accordance with established protocols and escalation criteria.
Resilience to remain impartial and professional when faced with difficult or distressing situations and/ or information.
Desirable
Knowledge of HMCTS practices and procedures to ensure these are adhered to and followed by public and professional users.
The role holder will make routine everyday decisions to prioritise their immediate workload and make adjustments in light of urgent and immediate requests.
Apply corporate guidelines to make routine decisions and take prompt action to support service users, including those with additional needs, through all forms of communication.
Follow established procedures and protocols to handle administrative decisions, escalating complex or exceptional matters as needed.
This role will make decisions in line with the operational framework, policies, procedures, and guidance to support their team and the business to deliver expected performance targets.
Exercise sound judgment in non-routine situations, such as security risks, safeguarding concerns, and interactions involving Potentially Violent People (PVP).
Promote a collaborative team environment by sharing knowledge, mentoring peers, and coaching colleagues using existing resources and expertise.
Use existing resources to provide learning, development, and training support for colleagues, including mentoring and coaching to support learner journeys within HMCTS.
Responsible for reporting and logging building, facilities, and IT issues, escalating these where appropriate.
Implementation of special measures and reasonable adjustments to allow vulnerable users to contribute and participate in hearings.
Booking interpreters, intermediaries, and other professionals for hearings. Signing time sheets on the day of attendance.
Adhere to resource schedules to ensure service demand can be met.
Following HMCTS policies, procedures, frameworks, and guidelines to resolve issues and effectively manage activities, working autonomously where required.
Carry out official duties on behalf of HMCTS on specific work tasks subject to relevant training where appropriate.
Assess issues in the moment and respond and acts accordingly to prevent escalation.
Work closely with, and taking direction from, Team Leaders following policies, procedures, and protocols, and use them to resolve routine matters.
Escalate any serious or complex issues and report on matters to ensure the Team Leader is aware of incidents.
Maintain own knowledge of digital systems and contribute to and update local knowledge management systems to effectively carry out this role.
Key Relationships and Contacts include but not limited to:
Internal
Colleagues from across operations, central functions, enforcement colleagues, and Bailiffs - sharing information and building relationships for effective working partnerships, including development of casework.
Judicial office holders - providing information and receiving instruction to ensure smooth running of justice.
Facilities Management - sharing information and building relationships for effective working partnerships.
Jury Central Summoning Bureau - exchange of information about jurors to ensure smooth running of courts and hearings.
Justice Partners and Other Government Departments (OGDs) - exchanging information, querying, and providing information.
Contracted Service and maintenance providers - greeting, sharing information to ensure safe operation of the location.
Workforce Management- to support effective resource planning.
External
Service users, members of the public and Jurors - explaining information to meet external user needs, signposting users to the correct information, or explaining court processes and procedures.
Third sector providers and Witness Services - exchange of information to ensure the smooth running of case progression and hearings.
Proffil Swydd
Teitl y Swydd: Swyddog Cefnogi Gweithrediadau GLlTEF
Gradd: AO
Diben y Swydd
Swyddog Cefnogi Gweithrediadau GLlTEF yw’r pwynt cyswllt cyntaf i ddefnyddwyr, deiliaid swyddi barnwrol ac asiantaethau partner. Maent yn darparu gwasanaeth cwsmer eithriadol, gan gynnwys i’r rhai sy’n agored i niwed neu sydd ag anghenion ychwanegol cymhleth. Mae’r rôl amrywiol hon wrth galon darparu cefnogaeth weinyddol a gweithredol o ddydd i ddydd i amryw o swyddogaethau, gan gynnwys cynorthwyo pob math o wrandawiadau ar draws holl feysydd busnes GLlTEF. Bydd y rôl yn cael effaith uniongyrchol ar gyflwyno cyfiawnder. Gellir lleoli’r rôl mewn unrhyw lys neu dribiwnlys neu unrhyw un o leoliadau y Gwasanaethau Cenedlaethol a’r Gwasanaeth Casglu a Gorfodi Dirwyon Troseddol.
Bydd y swydd yn cefnogi defnyddwyr GLlTEF mewn amryw o ffyrdd, gan gynnwys (ond heb fod yn gyfyngedig i) wyneb yn wyneb, dros y ffôn, trwy ddulliau digidol ac mewn gohebiaeth ysgrifenedig. Bydd y Swyddog Cefnogi Gweithrediadau yn cynorthwyo i gynnal llif esmwyth gweithrediadau, gan ddelio ag ymchwiliadau amrywiol a datrys materion i atal oedi i achosion neu wasanaethau. Bydd y rôl yn cyflawni nifer o ddyletswyddau gweinyddol cyffredinol a rheoli cyswllt â defnyddwyr i gynorthwyo i redeg swyddogaethau ar draws meysydd gweithredol GLlTEF, gan ddefnyddio sianeli digidol ac yn gweithio’n agos gydag aelodau’r tîm, deiliaid swyddi barnwrol a rhanddeiliaid eraill. Pwrpas y rôl hon yw cefnogi’r ddarpariaeth weithredol o wasanaeth o ansawdd uchel, gan gynorthwyo cyflwyno cyfiawnder, o fewn a thu allan i wrandawiadau ac ar draws gweithrediadau GLlTEF.
Gall y Swyddog Cefnogi Gweithrediadau weithio ar draws sawl maes busnes, gan ymgymryd ag amryw o dasgau yn ôl yr angen yn ôl anghenion y busnes.
Prif Gyfrifoldebau
Mae’r rhestr ganlynol yn grynodeb o rai o’r gweithgareddau posibl, ond nid yw’n gynhwysfawr:
Gwasanaeth Cwsmer
Ymgymryd â’r holl dasgau gweinyddol i baratoi, hwyluso a chanfod canlyniadau ar gyfer pob math o wrandawiadau.
Darparu cymorth neu gyfeirio defnyddwyr a rhanddeiliaid at wasanaethau cymorth priodol drwy gysylltiad wyneb yn wyneb, ffôn, a gwe-sgwrsio (mewn galwadau sy’n dod i mewn ac allan), ac ymateb i ohebiaeth mewn amryw o fformatau. Mae hyn yn cynnwys defnyddwyr gydag anghenion penodol neu gymhleth, gan ddarparu gwybodaeth glir a chyson i hwyluso cyfranogiad effeithiol yn y broses gyfiawnder.
Defnyddio sgriptiau gwasanaeth GLlTEF ac erthyglau gwybodaeth i gyfeirio defnyddwyr at y gwasanaethau perthnasol, gan sicrhau eu bod yn derbyn gwybodaeth gywir sy’n berthnasol i’w hymholiad drwy bob dull cyswllt.
Dilyn polisïau a gweithdrefnau cwynion, cefnogi defnyddwyr drwy’r broses a darparu ymateb ar unwaith lle bo angen i atal esgyniad, gan ddiweddaru OPTIC yn ôl yr angen.
Nodi risgiau sy’n gysylltiedig ag adeiladau GLlTEF, hysbysu’r Uwch Berson ar y Safle (SPoS) pan fo angen, ac ymateb ar unwaith pan fo angen.
Cefnogaeth Weithredol
Prosesu gwaith gan ddefnyddio gweithdrefnau gweithredu safonol i gyrraedd targedau perfformiad a chynnal safonau gweithredol a gwasanaeth.
Trin ffeiliau achos, gan sicrhau bod data yn cael ei gyflwyno’n gywir, rheoli gwybodaeth yn ddiogel, a chydymffurfio â phrotocolau cadw a cholli data.
Rheoli tasgau gwasanaeth rheithgor, gan gynnwys dewis, gohirio, ailddyrannu a thracio presenoldeb, yn ogystal â phrosesu treuliau perthnasol a ffioedd llys.
Cynorthwyo gydag amserlennu a rhestru, gan sicrhau defnydd effeithlon o amser y farnwriaeth, ymateb i faterion brys, a chydymffurfio â pholisïau rhestru.
Darparu cefnogaeth fusnes barnwrol benodol, fel cydlynu dyddiaduron a thasgau gweinyddol yn ôl yr angen lleol.
Cefnogi gweithdrefnau gorfodi, gan gynnwys cynnal asesiadau ariannol, cynorthwyo casglu dirwyon a chynhyrchu adroddiadau ystadegol ac ariannol sylfaenol.
Cyfrannu at weithrediadau iechyd a diogelwch, gan gynnwys PEEPs, gwiriadau cyfleusterau, cofnodi materion, a llywodraethu allweddi/diogelwch o dan arweiniad arweinwyr tîm.
Unrhyw ddyletswyddau ad hoc ychwanegol sy’n briodol i radd y rôl ac sy’n ofynnol gan anghenion y busnes.
Gwybodaeth, Sgiliau a Phrofiad
Hanfodol
Gallu gweithio’n hyblyg fel rhan o’r tîm, gan ymgymryd â thasgau a neilltuir gan yr Arweinydd Tîm i alluogi’r tîm a’r busnes i gyflawni blaenoriaethau.
Sgiliau digidol, gan gynnwys bod yn hyderus gyda Microsoft Office a chronfeydd data eraill.
Sgiliau cyfathrebu i ymgymryd â thasgau gwasanaeth cwsmer a gweinyddol eang ac egluro gweithdrefnau cymhleth mewn sefyllfaoedd anodd posibl. Datblygu a defnyddio perthnasoedd gwaith effeithiol gyda rhanddeiliaid ar draws y sefydliad ac asiantaethau partner i gefnogi’r gwasanaeth. Defnyddio sgiliau rhagweithiol i ddatrys problemau dydd i ddydd a’u hesgyn lle bo’n briodol.
Sgiliau gwasanaeth cwsmer i ymateb yn effeithiol i anghenion a gofynion defnyddwyr i alluogi cyfranogaeth effeithiol, gan gynnwys tystion mewn achosion a all fod yn gymhleth, gan weithredu yn unol â phrotocolau sefydledig a meini prawf esgyn.
Gwydnwch i aros yn ddiduedd ac yn broffesiynol wrth wynebu sefyllfaoedd neu wybodaeth anodd neu drallodus.
Dymunol
Gwybodaeth am arferion a gweithdrefnau GLlTEF i sicrhau cydymffurfiaeth gan y cyhoedd a defnyddwyr proffesiynol.
Datrys Problemau a Gwneud Penderfyniadau
Gwneud penderfyniadau arferol o ddydd i ddydd i flaenoriaethu llwyth gwaith uniongyrchol a gwneud addasiadau i ymateb i geisiadau brys.
Defnyddio canllawiau corfforaethol i wneud penderfyniadau rheolaidd a gweithredu’n brydlon i gefnogi defnyddwyr, gan gynnwys y rhai ag anghenion ychwanegol, drwy bob dull cyfathrebu.
Dilyn gweithdrefnau sefydledig i drin penderfyniadau gweinyddol, gan esgyn materion cymhleth neu eithriadol fel bo’r angen.
Gwneud penderfyniadau yn unol â’r fframwaith weithredol, polisïau, gweithdrefnau a chanllawiau i gefnogi’r tîm a’r busnes i gyrraedd targedau perfformiad.
Ymarfer barn gadarn mewn sefyllfaoedd anghyffredin, megis risgiau diogelwch, pryderon diogelu a rhyngweithio â Phobl A All Fod Yn Ymosodol (Potentially Violent People PVP).
Hyrwyddo’r ymdeimlad o dîm cydweithredol drwy rannu gwybodaeth, mentora a hyfforddi cydweithwyr trwy ddefnyddio adnoddau presennol.
Rheoli Adnoddau
Defnyddio adnoddau presennol i ddarparu dysgu, datblygiad a chefnogaeth hyfforddiant i gydweithwyr, gan gynnwys mentora a hyfforddi i gefnogi taith ddysgu o fewn GLlTEF.
Cyfrifoldeb am riportio a chofnodi materion adeiladu, cyfleusterau a TG ac esgyn lle bo’r angen.
Gweithredu mesurau arbennig ac addasiadau rhesymol i alluogi defnyddwyr agored i niwed i gyfrannu a chymryd rhan mewn gwrandawiadau.
Trefnu cyfieithwyr, cyfryngwyr a gweithwyr proffesiynol eraill ar gyfer gwrandawiadau. Llofnodi taflenni amser ar ddiwrnod presenoldeb.
Glynu wrth amserlenni adnoddau i sicrhau bod galw am y gwasanaeth yn cael ei ddiwallu.
Gweithio’n Annibynol
Dilyn polisïau, gweithdrefnau, fframweithiau a chanllawiau GLlTEF i ddatrys materion a rheoli gweithgareddau’n effeithiol, gan weithio’n annibynnol lle bo’r angen.
Ymgymryd â dyletswyddau swyddogol ar ran GLlTEF ar dasgau penodol yn amodol ar hyfforddiant perthnasol.
Asesu materion ar unwaith a gweithredu i atal esgyniad.
Gweithio’n agos gydag Arweinwyr Tîm a chymryd cyfarwyddiadau ganddynt,dilyn polisïau, gweithdrefnau a phrotocolau i ddatrys materion rheolaidd.
Esgyn materion difrifol neu gymhleth a rhoi gwybod fel bod yr Arweinydd Tîm yn ymwybodol o unrhyw ddigwyddiadau.
Cynnal gwybodaeth bersonol o systemau digidol a chyfrannu at a ddiweddaru systemau rheoli gwybodaeth lleol i gyflawni’r rôl yn effeithiol.
Perthnasoedd a Chysylltiadau Allweddol
Yn cynnwys, ond heb fod yn gyfyngedig i:
Mewnol
Cydweithwyr ar draws gweithrediadau, swyddogaethau canolog, timau gorfodi a Beiliaid - rhannu gwybodaeth ac adeiladu perthnasoedd i sicrhau partneriaethau gwaith effeithiol, gan gynnwys datblygu gwaith achos.
Deiliaid swyddi barnwrol - darparu gwybodaeth a derbyn cyfarwyddyd i sicrhau bod cyfiawnder yn rhedeg yn esmwyth.
Rheoli Cyfleusterau - rhannu gwybodaeth ac adeiladu perthnasoedd ar gyfer partneriaethau effeithiol.
Swyddfa Ganolog Gorchmynion Rheithgor - cyfnewid gwybodaeth am reithgorau i sicrhau bod achosion a gwrandawiadau yn rhedeg yn esmwyth.
Partneriaid Cyfiawnder ac Adrannau Eraill o’r Llywodraeth - cyfnewid gwybodaeth, holi a darparu data.
Gwasanaethau ar gontract a darparwyr gwaith cynnal a chadw - eu croesawu a rhannu gwybodaeth i sicrhau gweithrediad diogel y safle.
Rheoli’r Gweithlu - cefnogi cynllunio adnoddau effeithiol.
Allanol
Defnyddwyr gwasanaeth, aelodau’r cyhoedd a rheithwyr - egluro gwybodaeth i ddiwallu anghenion allanol, cyfeirio defnyddwyr at wybodaeth gywir, neu egluro prosesau a gweithdrefnau’r llysoedd.
Darparwyr trydydd sector a’r Gwasanaeth Tystion - cyfnewid gwybodaeth i sicrhau bod achosion a gwrandawiadau yn cael eu symud ymlaen yn ddi-drafferth.