Job Description (JD)
Band 5
Group Profile - Hub Manager (HM)
Job Description - HM : Offender Management
Document Ref.
JES 158 JD B5 HM: Offender Management
Document Type
Management
Version
6.0
Classification
Official
Date of Issue
10th 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
HM : Offender Management
Group Profile
Hub Manager
Organisation
First Line Management
Level
Band
5
Overview of the
This is an administrative managerial job within 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 be responsible for managing the
administrative processes within the Offender Management Hub
including court procedures, ensuring that prisoners received into
custody are managed through their sentence and released from
custody correctly in line with the National Reducing Reoffending
Strategy.
This is a rotational, non-operational job with line management
responsibilities.
Responsibilities,
The job holder will be required to carry out the following
Activities and
responsibilities, activities and duties:
Duties
• Manage the transactional activity associated with the Offender
Management function and the administrative staff within this
area. This includes ensuring the following paperwork is
complete, checked and ready for onward transmission:
• Discharge Report / Pre-Discharge Report
• Re-categorisation process and Boards
• Bail applications
• Completes management checks of Violent Sex Offender
Register (VISOR)
• Release on Temporary License (ROTL)
• Home Detention Curfew (HDC)
• Public Protection
• Offender Assessment and Sentence Management
(OaSys)
• Multi-agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA)
• Sentence calculations
• Observation Classification Allocation (OCA)
• Prisoners allocation and transfers
• Appeals
• Adjudications
• Indeterminate Sentence prisoners
• Parole applications
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• Legal Correspondence
• License Applications
• Resettlement overnight release
• Prisoner Fines
• Foreign Nationals/Deportation/Immigration
• Risk to Children/Safeguarding Children
• Harassment/Restraining Orders
• Probation
• Category A administration
• Resettlement
Undertake other administrative management tasks including:
• Contribute toward the development of local policy, procedures
and practice and ensure consistency of application
• Manage devolved budgets in accordance with the financial
procedures outlined in the budget delegation
• Manage the achievement of Service Delivery Indicators (SDIs)
and standards within the work area, verifying and signing off
documentation as appropriate
• Attend relevant unit meetings as and required to provide
feedback on good practice examples, to promote awareness
for better and more efficient ways of working
• Analyse and act on data collected by the Hub and produce any
relevant reports to show findings
• Ensure that data entered into local and national systems is
accurate and in accordance with agreed timescales
• Monitor performance of the Hub
• Draft all external and internal communications on behalf of the
Hub
• Provide Head of Function with management information
relating to the relevant area
• Be responsible for the management of all staff within their
area. This includes staff performance, development and
annual appraisal through to sickness absence management
• Act as first point of contact for relevant external stakeholders
• Act as requisitioner or approver dependant on local policy
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.
Behaviours
•
Changing and Improving
•
Communicating and Influencing
•
Working Together
•
Managing a Quality Service
•
Making Effective Decisions
•
Leadership
Strengths
NB: The below are for guidance only. It is advised strengths are
chosen locally, recommended 4-8.
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Essential
Able user of MS Word and MS Excel
Experience
Information collation and analysis
Technical
Internal applicants
Requirements
Newly promoted staff to the following Band 5 first line manager
roles (Hub Managers, Custodial Managers and Facilities &
Services Managers) in Establishments are required to complete a
qualification as part of their work objectives where these training
packages are available
Staff that have mapped or re‐graded to Band 5 who have
previously worked at an equivalent level will not be required to
undertake the qualification.
External applicants
All external staff joining as a Band 5 Hub Manager or Facilities
and Services Manager in an Establishment are required to
complete the qualification where available.
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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