Administration Officer

Location:

Rugby (CV23) – Warwickshire, West Midlands, United Kingdom

Salary:

£21,000 per annum

Type:

Permanent

Main Industry:

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Advertiser:

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Job ID:

131728633

Posted On:

26 March 2025

Administration Officer

Location : HMP Rye Hill

Salary: A£21,000 per annum

We are recruiting for a Drug & Alcohol Recovery Team Administrator at HMP Rye Hill.

Here at Forward Trust, we deliver a complex range of drug and alcohol services in the unique prison environment. Our support includes providing advice, health and wellbeing, motivational work, clinical services, and a wider range of group work and treatment programmes.

The Forward Trust services which are delivered within prison settings are commissioned by NHS England and are delivered in partnership with primary healthcare providers and HMPPS. Integration and partnership are integral to the work we do.

We believe that everyone can live a fulfilling life, whatever their past. Our work in prisons aims to support those affected by drug or alcohol issues to create lasting change and reduce dependency, homelessness, unemployment and re-offending.”

Role Responsibilities

The Administrator is responsible for providing a comprehensive business administration service to support the Drug & Alcohol Recovery Team (DART) at HMP Rye Hill. The service is designed to deliver psychosocial interventions, group work, holistic therapies and additional interventions for prisoners coming into prison that are identified as having a drug or alcohol problem.

You will be responsible for contributing and monitoring the targets set by Forward and the local commissioners. One of the key targets will be measuring outcomes, so co-operative working relationships with other partner agencies is vital to this role (example clinical teams, offender managers and prison custody officers). The purpose of this post is to ensure the smooth administration of the service, encompassing some secretarial duties, data entry collection and monitoring systems.

Additional Duties and Supervision:

* Take on other reasonable tasks and responsibilities as deemed appropriate by line management
* Engage in Quarterly Management Meetings (QLM)
* Assist the team in supervising prisoners inclusive of searching and supervising moves to other areas of the prison when needed
* Be part of the DART Garden intervention, supervising low and medium risk prisoners
* Communicate with residential unit staff to ensure prisoners allocated to any DART Intervention arrive
* Complete some scheduling tasks

You will be working as part of a team of ten and you will be offered a thorough induction at an organisational and service level. Training provided included eLearning live workshops. You will be provided with training from the Prison to support you feeling safe and confident in the expectations of you being a key holder.

The Ideal Candidate

Please see below a list of skills and experience needed for this role:

* An intermediate certification or demonstrable experience in Microsoft packages.
* A minimum of nine months experience of providing administrative support within a large team, demonstrating ability to work in a pressured environment.
* Strong experience working with data surrounding drug and alcohol treatment – knowledge of NDTMS or other related Experience.
* Experience of accurately collating statistical information, with an attention to detail and report writing.
* Experience of developing, implementing or maintaining large databases and managing administrative tasks associated with them.
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to deal with people of all levels and to work on own initiative in preparing correspondence.
* Willingness to develop an understanding of the aims of Forward and support the organisations ethos

About Us

We are The Forward Trust, the social enterprise with charitable status that empowers people to break the often interlinked cycles of crime and addiction to move forward with their lives. For more than 25 years we have been working with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past. We believe that anyone is capable of lasting change. Our services have supported thousands of people to make positive changes and build productive lives with a job, family, friends and a sense of community.

We are committed to our cause and the work we carry out as a charity. Equally the wellbeing and the employees who work for us are also important. Joining us an employee, we will offer you the following benefits:

* Flexible working
* Training and development opportunities
* Simply Health Cashback Scheme (optional)
* Season Ticket Loan Scheme
* Cycle to work scheme
* Crisis Loan Scheme
* Electric Car Scheme
* 3 x Wellbeing Days (pro rata’d for part time employees)
* Access to Blue Light Card
* 25 days (rising to 30 with length of service) Annual Leave plus Bank Holidays
* Contributory Pension Scheme – Employer matched contributions of up to 6% in the first two years’ service and up to 9% thereafter
* Death in Service Payment (2x annual salary)
* Critical Illness Insurance (subject to qualifying criteria)

If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for the Forward Trust, please proceed through the following link to be redirected to their website to complete your application.

careers.forwardtrust.uk/vacancies/20/administration-officer.html

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