Recruitment Officer

Join our Recruitment Team and help ensure Derbyshire and Leicestershire Police attract and recruit the best skilled people to deliver our services!

We are looking for Recruitment Officers to join our recruitment and talent team on a fixed term contract for 6 months initially, with the likelihood this may lead to permanent employment.

You’ll be working within a vibrant and supportive recruitment team, which sits at the heart of our policing family to deliver recruitment for Derbyshire Constabulary, Leicestershire Police and East Midlands Special Operations Unit (EMSOU).  We like to source and recruit great talent, and that's what you'll be working on.

As a resilient self-starter and effective organiser you will manage your own portfolio, delivering a full end to end recruitment process, taking candidates from attraction and initial application, all the way to their final offers, ensuring they meet the requirements to be successful and eligible to work for our force, and giving them a positive experience at each stage of their onboarding journey.

Using your excellent communication skills, you’ll be dealing confidently with internal and external customers verbally (over the telephone or face to face) and in writing. You will provide recruitment and attraction advice to hiring managers, seeking out the best options for them to find the right people.

You will work with accuracy and attention to detail, ensuring correct maintenance of information and integrity of data records.

You’ll be working with a variety of highly motivated, ambitious, and capable people in a forward-thinking organisation.

Working for Derbyshire Constabulary can offer you a wide range of benefits, including an attractive pension scheme, shopping discounts and a broad careers potential.

Salary

• Grade D (14-22) £22,671 to £27,351

Key Accountabilities

• Responsible for prioritising workloads and recruitment campaigns, balancing conflicting demands, and challenging deadlines to ensure a smooth recruitment experience for candidates and the force
• Using good planning, tracking, analysing, and managing of the recruitment process, ensuring service level agreements, force led recruitment targets, audit control, force policies and employment law are adhered to
• Providing recruitment guidance and advice in line with Employment Legislation, the Equality Act and College of Policing, making the right decisions regarding candidate’s needs

The must haves

• Experience of working in a busy HR/Recruitment role or similar environment
• GCSE English Language Grade C/4 or above/equivalent, or previous experience of preparing written correspondence and communicating with internal and external customers
• Ability to organise and manage own workload, making decisions to meet deadlines and maintaining confidentiality
• Able to build trusted relationships, influencing and challenging decision-making and managing expectations

What’s in it for you?

At Derbyshire Constabulary, we aim to create an environment that puts people first. We want you to feel supported in everything you do, so you can give your very best. What’s more, we have a range of reward and benefits that if you join us you could enjoy.

For part time hours the salary will be calculated on a pro-rata basis, this is based on the number of hours for the vacancy.

Next Steps

If we feel like a place where you can belong, we'd love to learn more about you. Please click on the button to upload your CV and supporting statement, stating how you meet each of the essential/desirable criteria as listed within the job description.

To support you with your application we have provided some application guidance and our recruitment process. 

Please submit your application by 23:55 on 3 April 2024. 

Shortlisting of applications will be completed as applications are received.

For an informal chat about the role, please contact Niki Doyle - Resourcing Partner at niki.doyle1@derbyshire.police.uk

Who we are

Here at Derbyshire Constabulary, Police doesn't have to mean patrolling the streets. Just as important as our uniformed officers is our strong team of professional and support staff working behind the scenes. It’s these skilled people, people like you who contribute to the policing of Derbyshire.

To understand how you can make Derbyshire safer together visit our careers website.

We welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds and encourage anyone who has considered a career in policing to apply. We’re particularly keen to increase the number of females and candidates from black and minority ethnic communities and the LGBT community, so that we can truly reflect the communities that we serve in.