We are seeking an organised, proactive and customer-focused Recruitment Coordinator to join our People Services Team. This role is home-based but there will be a requirement to attend in person team meetings and training on a regular basis within the Preston Area.
What we offer
At Victim Support, we are committed to attracting and retaining the best talent. Our competitive rewards and benefits package includes:
* Flexible Working Options: Including hybrid working.
* Generous Annual Leave: 28 days plus Bank Holidays, increasing to 33 days plus Bank Holidays, with options to buy or sell annual leave.
* Birthday Leave: An extra day off for your birthday.
* Pension Plan: 5% employer contribution.
* Enhanced Allowances: Enhanced sick pay, maternity, and paternity payments.
* Exclusive Discounts: High Street, retail, holiday, gym, entertainment, and leisure discounts.
* Financial Wellbeing: Access to our financial wellbeing hub and salary-deducted finance.
* Wellbeing Support: Employee assistance programme and wellbeing support.
* Inclusive Networks: Access to EDI networks and colleague cafes.
* Sustainable Travel: Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loans.
* Career Development: Ongoing training and support with opportunities for career progression.
About the Role
As a Recruitment Coordinator, you will play a key role in delivering a safe, efficient and compliant recruitment service across Victim Support. Working closely with the Recruitment Lead and Recruitment Administrator, you will coordinate recruitment activity, support safer recruitment checks, act as a key contact for the ATS and contribute to continuous improvement across recruitment processes.
Key Tasks
* Manage recruitment activity from advert to onboarding, ensuring compliance with employment legislation, safer recruitment and EDI requirements.
* Carry out checks on job adverts and recruitment documentation, ensuring accuracy and consistency.
* Act as a key contact for the Applicant Tracking System (ATS), supporting hiring managers through the recruitment process.
* Complete pre‑employment checks, including referencing, Right to Work and DBS checks.
* Monitor recruitment activity, respond to queries and support continuous improvement across recruitment processes.
About You
Ideally, you will hold a CIPD level 3 qualification and have an understanding of EDI requirements and the impact on recruitment practices. Experience using an Applicant Tracking System and other HR systems along with creating job adverts and working with job boards/advertising platforms is also beneficial.
You will need
* Knowledge of employment legislation relating to recruitment processes
* To be able to interpret policies and procedures and apply them effectively in practice
* Experience of recruitment processes and onboarding candidates
* An understanding of Safer Recruitment requirements
* Good IT skills, able to work with, understand and coach others to use a variety of systems
* Strong communication skills both verbally and written
* To be pro‑active and solutions focused, able to work without direct supervision
* Strong organisational skills, able to manage competing demands
* The ability to build relationships and work with both internal and external stakeholders
About Us
Victim Support is an independent charity dedicated to supporting people affected by crime and traumatic incidents in England and Wales. We put them at the heart of our organisation and our support and campaigns are informed and shaped by them and their experiences.
Victim Support are committed to recruiting with care and to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Background checks and Disclosed Barring Service checks may be required.
At Victim Support, we’re proud to celebrate diversity and create a workplace where everyone feels they belong. We’re committed to being an antiracist organisation, and we actively welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, including those from Black and Asian and other minoritised communities.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we will offer an interview to disabled candidates who meet all essential criteria for a job where it is practicable to do so. We are also happy to make reasonable adjustments during the recruitment and selection process.
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