Job overview
This is an exciting time to join our Recruitment Team committed to providing a high quality recruitment service across all areas of the Trust, in support of our aim of making Salisbury Hospital the ‘best place to work’.
We are looking for individuals with great communication skills, a passion for providing good service, and previous experience in a recruitment role, to carry out the full range of administrative tasks involved in recruitment, from advertising roles through to the onboarding of successful candidates.
Main duties of the job
1. Carrying out all the administrative aspects of recruitment for a range of vacancies for different staff groups, for allocated division/directorates across the hospital, liaising with candidates and managers to ensure that all stages of the recruitment process run efficiently and effectively.
2. Making sure that accurate role profiles and advertisements accurately describe the roles we are recruiting for, responding to correspondence from candidates, liaising with recruiting managers and helping them to make sure selection processes run well
3. Ensuring that all of the necessary steps are completed for pre-employment checks and references, and new joiner documentation
4. Making arrangements for onboarding of new joiners, arranging their induction and ensuring that everything is in place to welcome them to the hospital
5. Maintaining recruitment systems ensuring that all vacancy information is accurate and kept up to date
Working for our organisation
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we’re driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.
We are an acute Trust, rated “Good” by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.
We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
6. GCSE in Maths and English or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
7. An NVQ or other qualification in business administration/customer service or an HR related subject
Experience
Essential criteria
8. Previous experience in recruitment and carrying out a range of recruitment tasks
9. Experience of providing services to customers
10. Experience on Trac and ESR
Desirable criteria
11. Experience of administering recruitment processes
12. Previous administrative experience within the NHS
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
13. Good written and verbal communication skills
14. Able to converse confidently with employees at all levels in the organisation
15. A strong ‘customer service’ focus
16. Able to manage own time, juggle a number of tasks and prioritise work to meet deadlines
17. Proficient in the use of information systems (for applicant tracking, job board portals, HR system) and in the use of Microsoft Office
18. Able to collate data for use in reports
19. Able to be flexible to adapt to changing work demands and be a team player
Desirable criteria
20. Basic knowledge of employment law and good practice relating to recruitment
We offer excellent benefits that help make SDH a great place to work. These include but aren't limited to:-
21. Holiday starting at 27 days plus Bank Holidays rising to 29 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years for Agenda for Change staff
22. Holiday entitlement for Medical and Dental staff starts at 27 days for Junior/Senior Clinical Fellows, Specialty Doctors and rises to 32 days after 5 years. Consultant entitlement starts at 32 days and rises to 34 days after 7 years
23. An additional day's leave to celebrate your birthday (after 12 months & non contractual) pro rata
24. Access to a career average revalued earnings pension scheme
25. Life assurance if a member of the pension scheme
26. An extensive Health and Wellbeing offer to help you deal with life's challenges
27. Exclusive deals and discounts websites saving you money on everyday purchases, treats for the family, eating out and utility bills for home
28. Cycle to work scheme
29. Uniform provided (where required)
30. On site Day Nursery and Holiday Play scheme
31. On site health and fitness club
32. On site car parking (fee's and restrictions apply)
33. Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and training, to help you achieve the job and career you want.