EPR Recruitment Advisor

Job description

Job responsibilities

To lead, contribute and monitor specific areas of specialist recruitment within the divisions.

Ensure a timely and high-quality proactive recruitment service to the EPR programme within the Trust in accordance with the agreed standards of practice. This includes supporting the Recruitment Services Team Lead in providing consistent and proactive advice/guidance to managers, candidates and team members on fair recruitment processes. This will include supporting the development of documentation and training materials for internal colleagues.

Advise managers in the effective recruitment, engagement and deployment of staff in accordance with relevant policies and the services needs. This includes consistent interpretation and application of Trust employment policies and procedures and employment legislation.

Ensure that standardised processes are in place within the recruitment service in line with relevant policy and procedure, HR best practice and current legislative requirements. These will include standardized procedures, templates and practices.

Ensure all employment checks and paperwork is accurate and compliant with NHS Employers Employment Check Standards and to brief staff on any updates as necessary.

Ensure compliance with the GDPR legislation in relation to recruitment and employment records.

To support with ensuring that new team members are inducted and trained in all recruitment processes in line with the NHS employers standards, legal obligations and relevant Trusts policies.

Proactively support the onboarding process to ensure optimum candidate experience and ensure that all new starters are added to the payroll in line with relevant payroll deadlines and assist with payroll inputting where required. This includes spot checking of input and providing training where required.

Actively monitor own performance next to KPIs and key metrics (time, source, quality, cost and other strategic initiatives). This includes providing timely and accurate reports for internal stakeholders on recruitment progress.

Act as a System administrator and Trac super user, offering proactive advice to improve the workflow of the system to create an efficient recruitment process.

Actively support the development of staff in the Trust by supporting the design, development and delivery of a range of recruitment training packages and toolkits. This includes provision of training on these topics using various methods such as online, guides, one to one and workshops. Training to include campaign management, use of Trac, interview and selection and candidate management and to develop and maintain internal Service Operating Procedures (SOPs) and processes ensuring the team adhere to the outlined steps.

To provide advice and confirm compliance with relevant job offers, terms and conditions of employment, as part of the recruitment process or to seek advice as required.

To support with relevant implementations of national initiatives and policies and procedures, including contributing and working on projects across the People and OD Directorate.

To undertake internal audit checks on the recruitment processes undertaken by the team to ensure that all pre-employment checks are carried out in accordance with relevant legislation, Trust Policy and NHS Employment Standards including Employment Rights Act and UKVI Guidance.

To manage the team in accordance with an identified suite of key performance indicators ensuring that performance concerns are addressed, and support is proactively provided to support rapid improvement.

To support designated area of responsibility in modernisation, new ways of working and continuous improvement of the efficiency and effectiveness ensuring all legislative/audit requirements are met.

To champion the Equality and Diversity agenda and proactively embed the principles into the processes and procedures of the teams.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent
• Recruitment training qualification or proven experience
• Membership of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) or willingness to work towards membership/equivalent experience

• Evidence of continuing personal and professional development

Experience

• Experience of working within a recruitment function
• Experience managing a diverse workload and setting and achieving deadlines
• Demonstrable experience of managing various recruitment campaigns at the same time
• Experience of supporting service improvements projects.
• Experience of providing and fostering excellent customer service
• Experience of working to SLA's and KPI's
• Experience of partnership working with stakeholders at local level
• Proven experience of reviewing policies and procedures for own area of work
• Knowledge of Audits
• Understanding of fraud particularly in relation to employment checks
• Experience of dealing with resolving issues and escalating complaints
• Experience of using recruitment software applications, such as Trac and ESR, including reporting tools

• Experience of line managing, leading and developing staff

Knowledge & Skills

• Up-to-date knowledge of best practice in recruitment and selection techniques and preemployment Check Standards.
• Good employment law and contract knowledge; able to translate for others into practice and procedure
• Understanding of how successful recruitment contributes to the overall HR Strategy and patient care
• Excellent communication skills and ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of people including Senior managers
• Ability to prioritise conflicting demands and achieve targets
• Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team and make decisions without direct supervision
• Ability to understand a broad range of information and making decisions where no obvious solution.

• Ability to anticipate issues and create solutions and to resolve problems in relation to service delivery
• Knowledge of Labour market trends and key employment law

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

Employer details

Employer name

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Blue Star House – Brixton

234-244 Stockwell Road

London

SW9 9SP

Employer's website

https://www.slam.nhs.uk/