Recruitment Coordinator

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

*PREVIOUS APPLICANTS NEED NOT APPLY*

This is an exciting time to join the resourcing team. The resourcing team provides a service to South London & Maudsley NHS Trust . It delivers an excellent service provision of all recruitment services and across the Trust, including business as usual recruitment and project recruitment.

The team consists of a Recruitment Manager, Recruitment Advisors, Recruitment Coordinators and Apprentices. Together we deliver a first class resourcing service to all our stakeholders across the Trust.

Main duties of the job

Reporting to the Recruitment Advisor, the post holder will work in partnership with divisional service managers and the Recruitment Manager to deliver a proactive first class recruitment service across the divisions. This includes advising on processes and supporting recruiting managers with their recruitment activities, completing pre-employment checks and ensuring all new starters are processed in time for payroll.

The post holder will also support and help to co-ordinate recruitment activities for open days and career fairs to help attract the best candidates and ensure that they are recruited in a timely manner.

The post-holder will be supporting and working on key work-streams and projects enabling the recruitment team to deliver high volume and streamlined recruitment services across the Trust and help to reduce time to hire and agency spend.

Additionally, the post-holder will be comfortable with working at pace and to agreed timelines. Experience of high-volume recruitment and knowledge of conversion processes is an advantage but not essential.

About us

About the location:

The post will be based at Maudsley Hospital in Denmark Hill.

It should be noted that this role is currently hybrid working with 2 days on site and 3 days working from home.

Please note that the Recruitment Office will be relocating to Blue Star House in Brixton.

Benefits:

We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close-knit team at SLaM. It's important to us that you are valued and appreciated and that is why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer

Some of our benefits are highlighted here:

Generous pay, pensions and leave,we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.
Work life balance,flexible working and support a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.
Career development,there are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through several programmes
Car lease,our staff benefits from competitive deals to lease cars
Accommodation,our staff benefits fromkeyworker housing available which is available on selected sites
NHS discounts,with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though Health Service Discounts website.

Date posted

23 February 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£30,279 to £33,116 a year per annum including HCAS

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

334-RC-5119426-DP-C

Job locations

Maudsley Hospital

Denmark Hill

LONDON

SE5 8AZ

Job description

Job responsibilities

To oversee the recruitment service and pathway from advert through to employment for permanent, fixed term, and secondments. This will include managing recruitment activities and providing advice and guidance to applicants and recruiting managers.

To ensure a high quality and timely recruitment service in accordance with the agreed standards of practice, key performance indicators and portfolio of services.

Effectively co-ordinate recruitment campaign activities and ensuring a timely delivery of advertising, shortlisting, interview set-ups, offers and support with assessment centres. This includes timely completion of activities and required action ensuring on time and successful campaign completion.

To ensure that high standards of service delivery and quality standards are maintained in the areas of recruitment and selection. This includes educating and influencing recruiting managers regarding recruitment and selection best in class practices.

To ensure effective communications with managers and applicants regarding application status and pre-employment checks and to help to resolve any concerns early on and escalating these to the Recruitment Advisor / Recruitment Manager where necessary.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To ensure a high quality and timely recruitment service in accordance with the agreed standards of practice, key performance indicators and portfolio of services.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Experience of dealing with resolving issues and escalating complaints
Experience of using recruitment software applications, such as Trac and ESR, including reporting tools
Demonstrable experience of managing various recruitment campaigns at the same time
Good employment law contract knowledge, able to translate for others into practice and procedure

Desirable

Understanding of fraud particularly in relation to employment checks

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Experience of dealing with resolving issues and escalating complaints
Experience of using recruitment software applications, such as Trac and ESR, including reporting tools
Demonstrable experience of managing various recruitment campaigns at the same time
Good employment law contract knowledge, able to translate for others into practice and procedure

Desirable

Understanding of fraud particularly in relation to employment checks

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.