HR Admin and Recruitment Support Officer

Kent Fire and Rescue Service (KFRS) has an exciting opportunity available for a HR Admin and Recruitment Support Officerto join our team in Maidstone. You will join us on a part-time, permanent basis, working Mondays and Tuesdays (15 hours per week). In return, you will receive a competitive salary of GBP10,725 - GBP11,894 per annum (pro rata GBP26,457 - GBP29,339).

Being a part of Kent Fire and Rescue Service

Everyone is unique. Everyone has value. Everyone helps to make Kent Fire and Rescue Service a great place to work. We are one team. Together with our customers, we are creating a safer future for Kent and Medway.

About the role:

As a HR Admin and Recruitment Support Officer, you will be responsible for administering a range of recruitment processes and human resources tasks, ensuring compliance with policies and regulations, providing an exceptional service and advice to a range of candidates, colleagues, and customers. You will contribute, as part of the HR Team, to building a diverse and capable workforce.

As our HR Admin and Recruitment Support Officer, you will:

• Undertake the day to day delivery of all HR and Recruitment administration activities and deliver these in line with agreed timescales
• Provide first line assistance on the HR and Absence Helpdesks, via phone and team email inboxes from external and internal customers
• Assist the Recruitment Team with the organisation of all ad-hoc and volume recruitment assessment days, including providing face-to-face support at various locations in Kent
• Continuously review HR and Recruitment administrative practices in order to improve ways of working, to create a more inclusive and customer focused service
• Maintain SharePoint and intranet web pages
• Conduct exit meetings with colleagues leaving the service
• Assist the wider HR Team with other HR administration activities

What we re looking for in ourHR Admin and Recruitment Support Officer:

• Strong organisational skills to manage a range of HR administration activities and being able to adapt to changing priorities
• Ability to build relationships and interact professionally and courteously, both verbally and in writing, with a diverse range of customers
• Good knowledge of administration processes including producing and filing documents, record keeping, and accurate data entry
• Experience in prioritising, planning and co-ordinating your own work to meet specific deadlines
• Good practical knowledge of Microsoft Office with the ability to create and edit documents in Word, record data in Excel, and use Outlook

Closing date:Sunday 10th March 2024

Interviews will take place on Thursday 21st March 2024

Please note that you will be required to complete occupational testing on the day of the interview, including proof reading and Microsoft Excel.

If you feel have the skills and experience to become our HR Admin and Recruitment Support Officerplease click apply today, we d love to hear from you!

Inclusion is at the heart of everything we do. We know that great minds don t think alike, so we rely on diverse thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and backgrounds to create the best working environment that we can possibly offer.

Kent Fire and Rescue Service, its employees, and volunteers are committed to safeguarding, protecting, and supporting children, young people, and adults at risk. As part of our safer recruitment process, we will undertake pre-employment checks to verify your suitability for the role. These checks will include your references and a standard or enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. Enhanced DBS check with barred lists are carried out for roles with direct and unsupervised access to children, young people, and adults at risk. Risk assessments will be undertaken on any disclosures identified as part of the pre-employment checks.

As a Public Sector organisation with added responsibilities under the Equality Act, 2010 the candidate must demonstrate an understanding of what is meant by Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion and how this fits in with their everyday work.