Our Talent Acquisition team are dedicated to attracting the right talent to carry out a wide range of roles supporting front line policing. As a Talent Acquisition Officer you will manage a small team, and be instrumental in ensuring that the team attract and recruit great candidates in a timely and efficient manner.
We will need you to work pro-actively to help support the large volumes of staff and officer vacancies. This will involve you working closely with the other team members as well as stakeholders from across the organisation.
This vacancy is available on a fixed term basis for up to 12 months working full time 37 hours per week.
Avon and Somerset Police can offer a huge variety of careers and this is an excellent opportunity to join a large organisation with the likely prospect of future development.
Your key responsibilities in this role will include:
• Managing a small team of Talent Assistants. Being their first point of contact for any queries and ensuring they understand and work within agreed processes, reviewing performance against agreed objectives
• Managing a small portfolio of your own vacancies
• Building and maintaining stakeholder relationships
• To agree effective attraction strategies, assessment methods and appropriate recruitment timelines
• Continually look at ways to remove barriers in our recruitment processes to help improve the diversity of our applicants which will assist our organisation become more representative of the communities we serve
• Attend careers fairs and familiarisation events when required.
You can read more about the role responsibilities in the attached Role Profile.
Skills, experience and knowledge required;
• Experience of working within recruitment role.
• Experience of delivering a customer focused service (in any industry).
• Excellent communication skills, both verbally and written.
• Ability to influence colleagues and stakeholders.
• Ability to motivate, manage and train a team.
• Experience of working to deadlines and be confident in taking ownership of a busy workload with changing priorities.
• High degree of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Ability to build and maintain effective relationships.
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office including Outlook, Word and Excel.
Why Avon and Somerset Police?
We want everyone that joins us to feel comfortable to be who they are in our organisation, we will want you to live and breathe our values including that of inclusivity. Our colleagues are proud to be the difference and this message is key in our recruitment values too.
We aim to provide an environment which encourages our employees. We invest in our people and we strive to provide opportunities for our employees to learn, grow and thrive. Our organisations values of caring, inclusive, courageous and learning are at the heart of everything we do.
We want to build teams that represent a variety of experience and perspectives so that we are truly representative of our communities. We are keen to hear from those from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities and people from all faiths, religions, gender and LGBT+ communities.
Additional information:
This is a blended working role, therefore you will have the opportunity to work from home and also at Police Headquarters, Portishead. This role works office hours Monday - Friday, and to support events and recruitment activity there is the requirement to work outside of office hours including evenings and Saturdays on an occasional basis, across the force area. Flexibility in start and finish times would be required.
You will be expected to travel within the force area to meet candidates and stakeholders and to support events and interviews.
Applicants successful shortlisting will be invited to attend interview, week commencing 14th July 2025.
To be eligible to apply for this role you must have a 3 year checkable history in the UK ideally this means that you would have been resident in the UK for the last 3 years.
For further information regarding this role please contact Nicola Broomsgrove via email
We look forward to receiving your application.
About us
Diversity is a strength and individuality is an asset.
We recognise the benefit different life experience and perspectives can bring.
We are on a journey to become the most inclusive police force in the country.
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Please note: We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications. We encourage interested candidates to apply as soon as possible to ensure their application is considered.
Blended Working/ Hybrid Working
Avon and Somerset Police encourage flexible working where operationally possible.
This role has been identified as a blended role.
The successful candidate for this role will have the opportunity to work from home whilst also at a secondary work location, which will be a police premises. The successful applicant will have the option to discuss working arrangements with their line manager. All applicants must reside within the UK.