Recruitment Officer

Job Introduction

The recruitment team, work with hiring managers across Brighton and Hove City Council processing both internal and external hires for a variety of diverse roles from lifeguards to lawyers, tree surgeons to toilet cleaners, plasterers to planning professionals. Our aim is to help support hiring managers deliver an effective, efficient, and safe recruitment service, hiring the right person for the right job, while implementing processes to help recruit a diverse and inclusive workforce representative of our city.

As a Recruitment Officer, you will:

• Play a key role contributing to our commitment to recruit a diverse and skilled workforce by ensuring an effective recruitment service.
• Manage your own workload of appointed candidates while having access to a supportive recruitment team and HR resources to help you deliver the best recruitment service.
• Be the first point of contact for Hiring Manager’s recruitment queries. Offering them help and guidance in the recruitment process, including using our recruitment system Tribepad.
• Provide excellent customer service to candidates using the recruitment service by offering guidance and updates on the progress of their onboarding.
• Be responsible for transactional activity such as posting vacancies to the Council website, creating contracts, performing pre-employment checks (e.g. references, Right to Work in the UK and DBS checks) and ensuring that new starters are set up on our payroll system.
• Contribute to the implementation of policies and sound transactional processes allowing the recruitment of a diverse and skilled workforce.

You will be someone who:

• Can work both independently and as a member of a supportive team while planning and prioritising work in a fast-paced environment, including working to specific deadlines.
• Has great customer service experience and communication skills, including being able to communicate with people from diverse backgrounds and making sure that their needs are met.
• Can handle sensitive information in a confidential manner.
• Has competent IT skills, with the confidence to learn and use recruitment and background-checking software.

No previous experience working within recruitment is required. This role is a great opportunity for someone looking to start a career in Human Resources. We offer a wide variety of recruitment training including specific recruitment inductions. The role also provides a platform to expand your HR knowledge by offering an insight into wider HR processes and scenarios.

Please read our Apply for a job at the council (brighton-hove.gov.uk) pages carefully. They give you all the guidance you need to complete your application as well as information on what will happen after you’ve submitted your application and at interview.

As part of your application, you will need to complete your education and work history and provide answers to some shortlisting questions. Your answers to the shortlisting questions are the most important part of your application as they will be used in the shortlisting process to assess whether you meet the essential requirements for the role that are set out in the person specification and to decide whether you should be offered an interview. Before you start your application, please read our guidance here (Shortlisting questions guidance (brighton-hove.gov.uk) as this gives important advice which will increase your chance of success in the shortlisting process.

Job Details
Additional Information

Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.

We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining.

For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us (brighton-hove.gov.uk)

Company Information

Encouraging a diverse workforce

Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.

Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our fair and inclusive actions, our anti-racism strategy and the work we are doing to encourage a diverse workforce (brighton-hove.gov.uk).

Package Description

Are you interested in working in recruitment? Do you care about diversity and inclusion? Do you have good admin skills and attention to detail? Do you enjoy providing good customer service to applicants and managers?

If so, you might be interested in becoming a member of our brilliant and supportive in-house recruitment team as a Recruitment Officer.

As a Recruitment Officer, you will be responsible for providing a customer-focused recruitment service, dealing with day-to-day transactional recruitment processes, and handling complex recruitment requests.

Interview date: W/C 29th of April 2024

There is more information below and in the accompanying job description but if you have any questions before applying, please email Jess Packer, Recruitment Team Leader - jess.packer@brighton-hove.gov.uk