HMCTS - PSRAO

Position: HMCTS - PSR2 AO Roles
Admin Officer - Barnet Civil and family court

Contract:

April 2026
Salary: £15.59 per hour

Location:

Finchley, North
5 day's work setting

This is a temporary contract role until April 2026 for Admin officer's role with an immediate start date (Compliance dependant) for a four month duration with a possible extension offering 5 days in office work setting and a London location. (Barnet)

Job Description:

This is a brilliant opportunity for candidates to work as an admin officer on behalf of our client. Barnet Civil and family court as an, Administrative Officer responsibilities, preparing reports, and maintaining appropriate filing systems. The ideal candidates should have excellent oral and written communication skills and be able to organise their work using tools, like MS Excel and office equipment.

Administration

Preparing papers and files for court, tribunals, hearings and meetings.
Producing court/tribunal documents.
General photocopying and filing.
Creating and updating records on in-house computer system and data input.
Post opening and dispatch.
Booking, preparing and organising meeting rooms, supporting training courses and other group activities.
Preparing meeting agenda, joining instructions, handouts etc.

Drafting

Standard letters and correspondence, minutes, notes, reports, submissions etc, according to guidelines and instructions.
To maintain accurate and concise notes on the appropriate operating systems following enquiries or case related actions.

Operations

Clerking civil and family courts, tribunals and hearings, ensuring papers and materials are available and up to date
Assisting court users, supporting listing and rota management, checking files
Contacting relevant parties, scheduling, serving court documents, executing a range of warrants, collecting fines and fees etc, including the use of chip and pin
Handling counter (face to face) enquiries, and a broad spectrum of written and telephone enquiries.
To work as a team to ensure TIB (Team Information Board) meetings are relevant, timely and productive
To work as a team to problem solve, to assess the impact of new SOPS, to contribute to small projects

Processing casework

Including standard documentation and information, court orders, claims, fines and fees, legal aid
Resulting courts accurately, interpreting accurately the information required on a court file
To work to workload targets in terms of throughput and accuracy

Checking and verifying

Documents, records, accounts, claims and returns for approval, results, statistics, plans etc. against criteria, regulations or procedures.
Ensuring compliance and administration documentation meet quality standards.
Role holders may be required to cross check and validate work completed by colleagues.

Collecting and assembling information

For returns, results, accounts, statements, warrants, statistical analysis, reports etc.
Work may require interpretation of source materials, preparation of bundles, chasing.
Role holders will need to modify and adjust information and make decisions to allow work to be completed.
Role holders will need to collect and assemble information to prepare for and run the daily TIB meeting, as required

Undertaking calculations

Produce basic statistical analysis reports and where required, process financial information.
Checking the work of others, updating records, assessing the value of goods and/or property, reconciling accounts, preparing invoices, information gathering and running straightforward reports.
Spending limited sums of money on behalf of an office or unit.
Calculate the anticipated numbers of Jurors to be called and manage the numbers to be as efficient as possible

Communicating with the public, the judiciary, other court and tribunal users and representatives of other agencies and Organisations

Communicate and work with the Judiciary, Magistracy, the Cluster Managers, Court staff, and other internal and external stakeholders, suppliers and customers to collect information, check facts, communicate or enforce judicial decisions, give advice on the completion of forms or court procedures etc and provide excellent customer service.
To deliver a helpful, prompt, polite and "right…