Recruitment Administrator

East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices

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Job summary

Recruitment Administrator Milton Hospice, CB24 6BN

* Opportunity for some hybrid working *

Hours: Up to 30 hours per week

Permanent Contract

Salary: £25,000 - £27,000 pro rata, per annum depending on previous experience

Join Our Team as a Recruitment Administrator at East Anglias Childrens Hospices (EACH)!

EACH is looking for a Recruitment Administrator to be at the heart of our hiring process, ensuring a seamless experience for candidates and hiring managers.

Are you an organised and detail-oriented administrator with a passion for recruitment? Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment and enjoy providing first-class administrative support? If so, we want to hear from you!

Why Join EACH?

At EACH, we provide care and support for children with life-threatening conditions and their families. By joining our HR team, you'll play a vital role in helping us attract top talent to continue delivering our exceptional services.

Main duties of the job

About the Role

As a Recruitment Administrator, you will:

Manage the end-to-end recruitment administration process including job posting, co-ordinating interviews and supporting recruiting managers

Liaise with external recruitment partners to build visibility and awareness

Ensure applicants have a great recruitment and onboarding experience.

Coordinate recruitment events and maintain accurate records on our Applicant tracking system (ATS)

Promote equality, diversity, and inclusion in recruitment practices and support EACH in building an inclusive workforce

Ensuring compliance with employment laws, GDPR, and company policies

Supporting the wider HR team with general administration when required and other recruitment initiatives as needed

What Were Looking For

Strong administrative experience in a busy office, ideally in HR support or recruitment.

Excellent organisational and communication skills with the ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines.

Proficiency in IT, including Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook) and HR software.

A proactive and team-oriented mindset, with a keen eye for detail.

Discretion and professionalism when handling confidential information

A commitment to EACHs values of empathy, respect, and quality.

Awareness of recruitment compliance, data protection, and equality regulations knowledge would be advantageous:

About us

Comprehensive range of benefits:

  • Free onsite parking & subsidised meals at our hospices
  • Pool car provided when working in the community
  • NHS pension - continuation if already contributing
  • Enhanced Annual leave Entitlement - 27 days + 8 UK Bank Holidays
  • Additional holiday purchase scheme
  • AVIVA pension package up to 7% Employer Contribution including Life Assurance
  • Free eye tests & cycle to work scheme
  • Wellbeing support & Employee Assistance Programme

East Anglia's Children's Hospices (EACH)supports families and cares for children and young people with life threatening conditions across Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk.

We are extremely proud to say all three of our hospice services were rated OUTSTANDING when last inspected by the Care Quality Commission. This fantastic achievement is due to the commitment and professionalism of our wonderfully dedicated employees and volunteers.

At EACH we are committed to promoting equality and respecting diversity. We actively welcome applications from all sections of the community, in particular from eligible candidates from BAME backgrounds.

EACH is proud to be Investors in People accredited.

Date posted

04 February 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£25,000 to £27,000 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

EACH1078901

Job locations

Church Lane

Milton

Cambridgeshire

CB24 6BN


Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Summary:

Working closely with the Recruitment Coordinator and the HR team, the Recruitment Administrator provides essential support for the EACH recruitment process, ensuring that the applicant journey and recruiting manager processes run smoothly and efficiently across the whole organisation.

This role involves handling various administrative tasks related to recruitment, from working with recruiting managers to help them prepare for selection, posting job adverts, managing the applicant journey and communications, scheduling interviews, and maintaining accurate recruitment records. This is done via using the EACH automated recruitment system (ATS).

The Recruitment Administrator plays a key role in helping the organisation attract and hire top talent while supporting our recruiting managers to carry out a thorough, fair and consistent processes and practice with a focus on equity and diversity inline with the organisations values and mission.

The Recruitment Administrator acts as the first point of contact for all recruitment activity ensuring quality and positive candidate experience throughout.

Whilst focused on recruitment administration, there is an expectation that the job holder will support the HR team on other administration tasks and projects depending on workload.

Responsibilities

Administration linked to all aspects of the recruitment and selection process including:

o Receiving and processing all recruitment requests within agreed timescales on the Recruitment ATS system

o Placing all adverts in agreed timescales on the Recruitment ATS system and external job sites

o Accurately recording and updating advert costs on the Recruitment ATS system

o Collating and monitoring the progress of applications for each vacancy

o Respond to queries regarding vacancies from applicants and recruiting managers

o Support recruiting managers in providing fair and consisted feedback to applicants

Assist in the creation of innovative, accurate and impactful advertisements and work with our advertising agency, and other organisations/agencies as appropriate, to identify the most suitable and cost effective media.

Undertake all recruitment administration including inviting applicants to interview and applicant/recruiting manager queries including feedback requests and other correspondence.

Managing and maintaining external job boards including Indeed, NHS Jobs and Primary Care Careers

Maintaining the Recruitment ATS System ensuring that all data is up to date and accurate.

Reviewing and maintaining the recruitment section of the EACH intranet site

Support in reviewing the organisations recruitment processes with a focus on equality and diversity and fulfilling key objectives.

Ensuring compliance with confidentiality, GDPR and document destruction

Assisting with applicant screening and interviews when required

Maintain and update EACHs monthly Organisation Charts

Coordinate, support and attend recruitment events (which very occasionally may be during evenings)

Play an integral part in developing recruitment processes and the EACH value proposition offering with the Recruitment Coordinator.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Summary:

Working closely with the Recruitment Coordinator and the HR team, the Recruitment Administrator provides essential support for the EACH recruitment process, ensuring that the applicant journey and recruiting manager processes run smoothly and efficiently across the whole organisation.

This role involves handling various administrative tasks related to recruitment, from working with recruiting managers to help them prepare for selection, posting job adverts, managing the applicant journey and communications, scheduling interviews, and maintaining accurate recruitment records. This is done via using the EACH automated recruitment system (ATS).

The Recruitment Administrator plays a key role in helping the organisation attract and hire top talent while supporting our recruiting managers to carry out a thorough, fair and consistent processes and practice with a focus on equity and diversity inline with the organisations values and mission.

The Recruitment Administrator acts as the first point of contact for all recruitment activity ensuring quality and positive candidate experience throughout.

Whilst focused on recruitment administration, there is an expectation that the job holder will support the HR team on other administration tasks and projects depending on workload.

Responsibilities

Administration linked to all aspects of the recruitment and selection process including:

o Receiving and processing all recruitment requests within agreed timescales on the Recruitment ATS system

o Placing all adverts in agreed timescales on the Recruitment ATS system and external job sites

o Accurately recording and updating advert costs on the Recruitment ATS system

o Collating and monitoring the progress of applications for each vacancy

o Respond to queries regarding vacancies from applicants and recruiting managers

o Support recruiting managers in providing fair and consisted feedback to applicants

Assist in the creation of innovative, accurate and impactful advertisements and work with our advertising agency, and other organisations/agencies as appropriate, to identify the most suitable and cost effective media.

Undertake all recruitment administration including inviting applicants to interview and applicant/recruiting manager queries including feedback requests and other correspondence.

Managing and maintaining external job boards including Indeed, NHS Jobs and Primary Care Careers

Maintaining the Recruitment ATS System ensuring that all data is up to date and accurate.

Reviewing and maintaining the recruitment section of the EACH intranet site

Support in reviewing the organisations recruitment processes with a focus on equality and diversity and fulfilling key objectives.

Ensuring compliance with confidentiality, GDPR and document destruction

Assisting with applicant screening and interviews when required

Maintain and update EACHs monthly Organisation Charts

Coordinate, support and attend recruitment events (which very occasionally may be during evenings)

Play an integral part in developing recruitment processes and the EACH value proposition offering with the Recruitment Coordinator.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Ability to manage multiple tasks, schedules, and deadlines efficiently.
  • Proven experience and flexibility in a busy fast paced administrative role.
  • Ability to input and maintain accurate, comprehensive database records.
  • Experience in a customer-facing role, demonstrating professionalism in handling queries.

Desirable

  • Experience of working in an HR/Recruitment environment and using applicant tracking system (ATS) software

Qualifications

Essential

  • Strong numerical and literacy skills required
  • Competency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook) and databases

Desirable

  • Awareness of recruitment compliance, data protection, and equality regulations.
  • Familiarity with recruitment administration practices and procedures
  • HR database/software experience

Skills & Abilities

Essential

  • Strong verbal and written communication skills.
  • Ability to adapt communication style to guide, support, and provide clear and concise information.
  • Strong organisational skills and ability to managing changing priorities and demands.
  • Adaptability and flexibility in order to manage changing demands of the role.
  • Enthusiastic and self-motivated approach to work.
  • Attention to detail
  • Maintains discretion when handling sensitive HR and candidate data.
  • Collaborative team player who is also able to work independently

Desirable

  • Problem-solving skills to enhance the recruitment experience for candidates and hiring managers.

Other Requirements

Essential

  • Willingness to travel to EACHs three hospice locations and other sites within East Anglia as required (pool car will be available)
Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Ability to manage multiple tasks, schedules, and deadlines efficiently.
  • Proven experience and flexibility in a busy fast paced administrative role.
  • Ability to input and maintain accurate, comprehensive database records.
  • Experience in a customer-facing role, demonstrating professionalism in handling queries.

Desirable

  • Experience of working in an HR/Recruitment environment and using applicant tracking system (ATS) software

Qualifications

Essential

  • Strong numerical and literacy skills required
  • Competency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook) and databases

Desirable

  • Awareness of recruitment compliance, data protection, and equality regulations.
  • Familiarity with recruitment administration practices and procedures
  • HR database/software experience

Skills & Abilities

Essential

  • Strong verbal and written communication skills.
  • Ability to adapt communication style to guide, support, and provide clear and concise information.
  • Strong organisational skills and ability to managing changing priorities and demands.
  • Adaptability and flexibility in order to manage changing demands of the role.
  • Enthusiastic and self-motivated approach to work.
  • Attention to detail
  • Maintains discretion when handling sensitive HR and candidate data.
  • Collaborative team player who is also able to work independently

Desirable

  • Problem-solving skills to enhance the recruitment experience for candidates and hiring managers.

Other Requirements

Essential

  • Willingness to travel to EACHs three hospice locations and other sites within East Anglia as required (pool car will be available)

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices

Address

Church Lane

Milton

Cambridgeshire

CB24 6BN


Employer's website

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Employer details

Employer name

East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices

Address

Church Lane

Milton

Cambridgeshire

CB24 6BN


Employer's website

https://www.each.org.uk (Opens in a new tab)


For questions about the job, contact:

Recruitment Team

Recruitment Team

hrinbox@each.org.uk

Date posted

04 February 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£25,000 to £27,000 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

EACH1078901

Job locations

Church Lane

Milton

Cambridgeshire

CB24 6BN


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