Recruitment Administrator

The Recruitment team provides a dedicated, professional recruitment service to all departments across the authority including Adult and Children Social Care, Finance, Education, Public Health and IT.

You will work closely with our line managers and provide full support and guidance to our candidates, ensuring their recruitment journey from application to first day is engaging and seamless.

This is a varied role where the administration work you will provide is detailed and complex. 

What will you be doing:

• Day to day, you will be first point of contact for customers contacting the Recruitment team, these will be in the form of incoming calls and emails into our shared team inbox.
• Using a variety of systems, you will proactively carry out all relevant pre-employment checks in line with safer recruitment guidelines and Council policies and procedures. This will include producing and sending offer letters and obtaining references, DBS, medicals etc.
• By using your problem-solving skills, you will identify and resolve issues that may cause a delay in candidates starting on time. This can include chasing DBS or missing references, and highlighting any problems where an alternative course of action may be needed.
• Daily, you will support our staff and managers on our recruitment system (ATS) and keep in contact with candidates to support them through their onboarding journey.
• You will also support with advertising internal and external jobs.