Resourcing Officer / Recruitment Officer

Resourcing Officer / Recruitment Officer

Salary Range: £26,873 - £29,269 (Grade G)

Location: Hybrid working (office base County Hall, Northallerton)

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full and part time options available

Due to growth and promotion within our service, we are looking for a talented and ambitious colleague to join our team, in what we believe to be an exciting role where you can make a real difference to the recruitment journey for both candidates and stakeholders. This role offers a fantastic opportunity for you to develop your recruitment skills and experience in our multi award-winning team.

Resourcing Solutions are North Yorkshire Council’s dedicated Resourcing specialist and are definitely not a standard, traditional recruitment team. We are a flexible, professional in-house recruitment service, offering hybrid working, which enables us to support North Yorkshire Council and our partners effectively. Due to our fantastic reputation, we have enjoyed extensive growth to date. As a large and growing team, we have a diverse workload and can discuss further with you the opportunities available.

As a Recruitment Officer you will provide expert advice and guidance to candidates and hiring managers regarding all matters relating to the recruitment journey. This will include working alongside the wider Resourcing Solutions team whilst also taking ownership over your own day to day workload and responsibilities. You will be a specialist for all recruitment and resourcing queries. You will build excellent working relationships with stakeholders, working effectively with partners and colleagues to deliver a high quality, efficient service, leading compelling recruitment campaigns to secure outstanding talent.

Along with supporting our North Yorkshire Council Managers with their recruitment needs, we have a dedicated specialist Adult Social Care recruitment team, who work closely with care providers building positive relationships in order to gain a good understanding of their recruitment needs. You will use modern, multi-channel attraction techniques including social media, networking and recruitment events. You will assess candidates’ values, skill and abilities to match them to your clients’ vacancies. Through your recruitment advice and guidance you influence your clients’ approach and recruitment outcomes. Your engaging and personalised approach with candidates sees you providing detailed information about the hiring organisation, preparing them for interview, and supporting them through clearance and offer stage with their new employer.

The work we do provides invaluable support to our families and communities within North Yorkshire and that is what makes this job so rewarding.

To be successful as a Recruitment Officer you will:

• Have previous client management experience with the ability to influence decision making

• Have experience being a subject matter expert and using your knowledge to advise appropriately on a wide range of issues

• Have had experience dealing with a high volume of tasks in a fast-paced environment

• Have the ability to work successfully with stakeholders at a various levels

• Have problem solving skills, using your initiative to create a bespoke solution for your stakeholders

• Have experience in providing an excellent level of customer service

• Have a good understanding of IT packages including, Microsoft Office, Outlook, Excel etc along with excellent attention to detail and administration skills.

What we can offer you:

• Flexible working hours and a combination of home and office working

• 28 days annual leave (excluding bank holidays) rising to 34 after five years’ service

• A supportive environment with lots of opportunity for personal development and progression

• Generous Local Government pension

• Green car scheme

• Discounts off a wide range of high street stores, supermarkets, online travel

You will be based at our Northallerton Office, working a combination of office and home days each week.

Our values are at the heart of what we do and what we want to achieve.

Our values are inclusive, ambitious, creative and together – I ACT. These values guide how we – with our customers, partners and others – work together to achieve the council’s ambitions.

• Inclusive – we act with kindness and integrity, respecting differences and embedding equality of opportunity.
• Ambitious – we are citizen and community focused, and adaptable in our approach to delivering excellent services as one local council.
• Creative – we are connected, inventive, continuously learning and look for improvements that deliver value for money.
• Together – we work collaboratively with colleagues and partners as one team to deliver our shared goals.

Job Description.docx

To apply, please send your CV and covering letter to Kimberley.Holden@northyorks.gov.uk

If you would like to discuss the role in further detail please call Kim Holden on 07929397906

Closing Date: Monday 15th April 2024

Please note we will be interviewing whilst the role is live and reserve the right to close the advert should suitable candidates be appointed.

Interviews to be held week commencing 22nd April