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Job Description (JD)
Band 3
Group Profile - Business Administrator(BA)
Job Description - BA: Business Hub
Document Ref.
OR JES 227 JD B3 : BA : Business Hub v8.0
Document Type
Management
Version
8.0
Classification
Official
Date of Issue
16 April 2025
Status
Baselined
Produced by
Job Evaluation Assurance and Support Team
Authorised by
Reward Team
JD Evidence
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Job Description
Job Title
BA : Business Hub
Group Profile
Business Administrator
Organisation
Delivery
Level
Band
3
Overview of the
This is an administrative job in an establishment.
job
All staff have a responsibility to safeguard and promote the
welfare of children. The post holder must undertake the
appropriate level of training and is responsible for ensuring that
they understand and work within the safeguarding policies of the
organisation.
Summary
The job holder will provide administrative support to the Business
Hub maintaining finance, performance and administrative
systems within specified timescales for the establishment.
This is a rotational, non-operational job with no line management
responsibilities.
Responsibilities,
The job holder will be required to carry out the following
Activities and
responsibilities, activities and duties:
Duties
• Undertake a share of the transactional activity associated with
the Business Hub. This will include processing most or all of
the following categories of paperwork and inputting data ready
for checking and onward transmission by the Hub Manager:
o Performance
o Audit and Compliance
o Finance (Stock taking/Prisoner monies,
valuables/Receivables/Reconciling
expenditure/Accruals/Outgoing pay/Inter-unit
charges/Cashier)
o Information Assurance
o Measuring the Quality of Prison Life (MQPL)
o His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP) visits
o Subject access requests
o Official Correspondence
o Complaints
o Risk Register
o Independent Monitoring Board (IMB)
o Action Plans
o Self-audit programme
o Procuring goods
o Vehicle maintenance
o Personal Identity Number (PIN) Phone system
o Ordering of staff uniform
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o Bank signatory
o Fixed and local assets
o Accounts Receivable
o Inventory
o Women Royal Voluntary Services
o Canteen administration including Quarterly Review
o IT administration
Undertake other administrative tasks including:
• Organise, produce and maintain accurate records for area of
work
• Act as contact point for all communications to the team.
Prioritise and distribute communications to the appropriate
person or relevant department in establishment
• Complete monitoring returns for area of work
• Input requisitions on to the finance database and process
requisitions for defined area of work
• Co-ordinate any awareness sessions for area of work
• Prepare paperwork for checking by manager, conducting
initial checks as required
• Correspond with relevant stakeholders and agencies to
ensure that they are aware of information so that 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 including
organising agenda, taking and, distributing minutes and
action points
The duties/responsibilities listed above describe the post as it is
at present and is not intended to be exhaustive. The job holder is
expected to accept reasonable alterations and additional tasks of
a similar level that may be necessary. Significant adjustments
may require re-examination under the Job Evaluation Scheme
and shall be discussed in the first instance with the job holder.
An ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence
through the medium of English or (where specified in Wales)
Welsh.
Behaviours
• Changing and Improving
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together
• Managing a Quality Service
• Delivering at Pace
Strengths
NB: The below are for guidance only. It is advised strengths are
chosen locally, recommended 4-8.
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Essential
Experience
Technical
Requirements
Ability
Minimum
• All candidates are subject to security and identity checks prior to
Eligibility
taking up post.
• All external candidates are subject to 6 months’
probation. Internal candidates are subject to probation if they
have not already served a probationary period within HMPPS.
• All staff are required to declare whether they are a member of a
group or organisation which HMPPS consider to be racist.
Hours of Work
37 hour working week.
(Unsocial Hours)
Allowances
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