Job summary
There's never been a better time to consider joining our Talent Attraction & Senior Acquisition Service, part of the wider Resourcing Services function at MFT where you'll take your recruitment career on a fast-track journey to success; supporting, improving & transforming the care of all our patients behind the scenes by ensuring our managers recruit the very best talent and, our candidates experience the very best recruitment, selection & onboarding journey.
This role offers you an unrivalled opportunity to apply your seasoned transactional HR or recruitment administration experience whilst supporting transformational aspects of resourcing such as candidate attraction, social media development & scheduling, preparing for Assessment and Selection Centres, delivering high quality recruitment administration processes, and progressing very senior and Executive recruitment assignments. You'll also play an active role in supporting the co-ordination of the development of recruitment campaigns and posting careers content across our MFT social media platforms, showcasing our employer brand ALL HERE FOR YOU.
The size, scale and complexity of our Trust means our team works at a fast pace where volume activity, high accuracy and juggling priorities is part of our daily routine. At the same time, the role will enable you to learn quickly and work with some highly skilled and respected NHS leaders across our Trust; instantly enhancing the breadth and depth of your resourcing skillset.
Main duties of the job
- As the role is heavily administration focused, you'll be very organised with strong attention to detail and a drive for high quality output
- You'll spend a good percentage of time developing candidate communication literature & scheduling attraction social media activity which means you'll need strong IT skills in all things Microsoft, with a meticulous, patient approach to checking your work for accuracy each time, every time
- You'll liaise with a wide range of stakeholders & candidates at all levels both face to face, over the telephone and in email so the confidence, professionalism and personality to network and communicate at ease is paramount
- You'll work at pace with many varying priorities and the ability to switch focus and manage curve balls can be a daily occurrence so a calm, considered and flexible style is key
- You'll be responsible for uploading vacancies on to our Candidate Management System, so you'll need to be proactive and effective in managing transactional processes
- Working up complex assessment timetables will form a staple task for you so a logical, problem-solving skill set will be critical
- You'll deliver a friendly, efficient and customer focussed service so, treating our candidates and stakeholders respectfully and politely with the motivation to deliver an outstanding job is crucial
- You'll be the go-to person for ensuring all our digital documentation is stored in a secure and efficient way, so you'll be systematic and methodical
About us
MFT is England's largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.5bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Should you be shortlisted, you will be contacted by email with further details of the selection process. This will require candidates taking part in an Assessment & Selection Centre at our offices at Parkway 1, Princess Parkway Business Centre, Manchester, M14, 7LU.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the NHS England website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Job description
Job responsibilities
Should you be shortlisted, you will be contacted by email with further details of the selection process. This will require candidates taking part in an Assessment & Selection Centre at our offices at Parkway 1, Princess Parkway Business Centre, Manchester, M14, 7LU.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the NHS England website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Person Specification
Qualifications /Academic/ Professional
Essential
- Educated to 'A' level standard or equivalent
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in a HR/Recruitment environment
- Must be able to relate professionally to a wide range of external and internal stakeholders.
- Experience of using, maintaining and reporting from a web-based database
- Computer literate; experience of Microsoft Office, Microsoft Powerpoint & Microsoft Outlook
- Customer/candidate focussed
- Experience of planning a range of activities and prioritising work to meet deadline
- Experience of supervising others
Desirable
- Experience of facilitating Assessment Centres
- Experience of 'Oracle' data base management
- Experience of working in the NHS
- Experience of supporting administration for senior vacancies at director level
- Experience of using digital communication, scheduling tools and digital social engagement methodologies - e.g. - Hootsuite, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn.
- Experience of interpreting and delivering to a communication/project brief
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Ability to deal confidently with customers
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Demonstrates leadership qualities
- Demonstrates organisational values
- Highly motivated and able to lead and motivate others
- Flexible and adaptable
- Conscientious, resilient and can-do attitude
- Highly meticulous approach to work accurate and very strong attention to detail
- Effective communication skills
- Ability to prioritise and plan workload
- Ability to handle high volume processes
- Ability to work to specified deadlines
- Ability to work unsupervised
Personal Circumstances
Essential
- Flexible approach to work
Person Specification
Qualifications /Academic/ Professional
Essential
- Educated to 'A' level standard or equivalent
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in a HR/Recruitment environment
- Must be able to relate professionally to a wide range of external and internal stakeholders.
- Experience of using, maintaining and reporting from a web-based database
- Computer literate; experience of Microsoft Office, Microsoft Powerpoint & Microsoft Outlook
- Customer/candidate focussed
- Experience of planning a range of activities and prioritising work to meet deadline
- Experience of supervising others
Desirable
- Experience of facilitating Assessment Centres
- Experience of 'Oracle' data base management
- Experience of working in the NHS
- Experience of supporting administration for senior vacancies at director level
- Experience of using digital communication, scheduling tools and digital social engagement methodologies - e.g. - Hootsuite, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn.
- Experience of interpreting and delivering to a communication/project brief
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Ability to deal confidently with customers
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Demonstrates leadership qualities
- Demonstrates organisational values
- Highly motivated and able to lead and motivate others
- Flexible and adaptable
- Conscientious, resilient and can-do attitude
- Highly meticulous approach to work accurate and very strong attention to detail
- Effective communication skills
- Ability to prioritise and plan workload
- Ability to handle high volume processes
- Ability to work to specified deadlines
- Ability to work unsupervised
Personal Circumstances
Essential
- Flexible approach to work
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.
