Senior Recruitment Assistant - Kingston upon Hull
Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust are proud award winners of the HSJ Provider of the Year 2019
Job overview
An opportunity has arisen for a Senior Recruitment Assistant to join our Recruitment Team.
The role of Senior Recruitment Assistant includes, overseeing all aspects of the Recruitment process from advertising vacant posts, supporting services to arrange interviews, sending offer letters and working with successful applicants to complete pre-employment checks.
You will also be required to provide advice and support to recruiting managers on the recruitment process, system advice and areas of best practice.
We are looking for an enthusiastic individual who is keen to learn and grow in the area of recruitment and selection. This may also be considered as an entry level role for anyone wishing to embark upon a career in Human Resources.
The successful applicant must be proactive and able to work as part of an established team in a fast paced environment.
Main duties of the job- To work as a member of the Human Resources Recruitment Team in the provision of an effective, high quality, recruitment service for the Trust.
- ensuring all administrative duties are undertaken in a timely manner
- Provide support to colleagues and senior members of the Human
- To be the first point of contact for the recruitment team, as such, be expected to maintain high standards of customer service, courtesy, discretion and confidentiality at all times
- To support the implementation and maintenance of recruitment
- To support the organisation and represent the Trust at Careers Fairs, Recruitment Events and Recruitment Training
Working for our organisation
We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website
We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.
We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you’ll need to get you started.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.
We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.
From city to countryside, market towns to moors you’ll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information with regard to this vacancy please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person specification
Qualifications & Knowlegde
Essential criteria- Qualified to NVQ level 3 or equivalent
- Understanding of NHS Employment Check Standards
- Knowledge of a range of work procedures and practices
Skills and Competencies
Essential criteria- Able to demonstrate good inter-personal communication skills
- Able to plan and prioritise effectively
- Excellent customer service including telephone manner and in person.
Experience
Essential criteria- Experience of working with the general public
- Experience of effective use of a range of Microsoft packages including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, databases, electronic diaries
- Experience of working in a role undertaking the administration of recruitment & selection activities
- Experience of providing advice/information to staff and managers
- Experience of practice of recruitment & selection in an NHS setting with experience of NHS jobs, ESR and TRAC.
Please note that if there is a high volume of applications we reserve the right to close the vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date.
This post will be subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period where applicable, further details would be included within any offer letter.
Where operationally feasible the Trust supports agile working, there is an expectation of attendance of 1 day per week at a Trust site as a minimum operationally. Unless specifically stated in the advert that a role will have home as the base of work, all roles will have the option to work from a Trust base if remote working is not for you.
If required for the post the ability to commute within the Trusts geographical area with access to the appropriate means of transport would be essential.
We will apply for a Disclosure from the Disclosure & Barring Service for the successful candidate if this is required for the post. Anyone applying for a position which involves a regulated activity will require an enhanced Disclosure & Barring check and that the disclosure will, where appropriate to the role, include information against the Independent Safeguarding Authority barred lists for working with children or working with adults or both.
IMPORTANT: Should your application be successfully shortlisted, you will be contacted to attend an interview electronically to the email address provided at the time of the application. It is important therefore, that you CHECK YOUR EMAILS/NHS JOBS ACCOUNT on a regular basis.
If you are not contacted by the Trust within six weeks of the closing date of the vacancy, your application will have been unsuccessful on this occasion. We would however like to thank you for the interest you have shown in the Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust.
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On 1 July 2024, NHS England strengthened its commitment to supporting employees already working for the NHS who wish to embark upon an apprenticeship to aide career development.
To ensure these staff do not experience a detriment to their basic pay, the salary for duration of the apprenticeship will be consistent with their current pay or the rate paid to other apprentices, whichever is higher (subject to eligibility criteria)
This change supports exiting NHS employees to undertake a formal apprenticeship programme which, upon completion, would qualify them for a role where the evaluated pay band is the same or higher than the band of their current post.
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