What's involved with this role: Temporary HR & Recruitment Assistant/ Admin Reference no: Stockton on Tees 1000396214912318 Pay Rate: £11.59 per hour PAYE 35-37 Monday to Friday, normal working hours This opening assignment is for 6 months City: STOCKTON You will be responsible for assisting in the delivery of transactional HR and Recruitment matters. Required to have a knowledge across the customer base including many customers external to the local authorities that operate on a separate contract and service level agreement basis. This will require you to develop knowledge of various terms and conditions of employment and multiple processes and procedures. Responsible for ensuring the service is provided to a high standard and in a timely manner to meet legislative requirement. Key Responsibilities: Responsible for administering a range of recruitment tasks and these will vary across local authorities, schools and academies. You will need to understand the various recruitment processes and carry out tasks in accordance with each customers requirement. Responsible for ensuring any requests for advertising received from schools and academies are correctly authorised and advertising any vacancies using approved sites ensuring all necessary documentation is complete, this will include when necessary extending any closing dates or re-advertising of posts as agreed with the customer. Responsible for preparing and issuing relevant employment correspondence to successful candidates including offer letters and contracts of employment within legal guidelines and timescales Be responsible for the administration of pre-employment checks including, identification documents, proof of right to work in the UK, evidence of qualifications, online DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) checks, health checks, references, checks on gaps in employment, if not already carried out etc. This will include chasing up of non-receipt of information and clarifying any issues with lead officers. Be responsible for ensuring the recruiting lead officer is informed of the outcome of clearances undertaken and raise any issues found accordingly and obtain start dates for successful candidates. Assist in the production of Written Statement of Particulars (Contracts of Employment) and variations to contracts, ensuring they are produced in accordance with legislative and company requirements. Update the HR and Payroll system with any information to be stored in the document management system and update any information not automatically transferred from Recruitment Portal. Where appropriate, set up personal file in accordance with customer requirements. Assist in carrying out DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) checks and renewal process for customers under service level agreements. Assist the HR and Recruitment Manager and HR and Recruitment Officer in processing of HR related work such as probation, right to work, long service awards You will be responsible for ensuring all work is carried out in an organised and effective manner to ensure all work is delivered within deadlines NB: Please feel free to apply to us direct via jobstclrec.com by quoting the job reference and job title exactly. To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would suggest that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, rather than as a PDF If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do no t offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity. Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, we cannot, unfortunately, respond to all applications. If, therefore, you have not heard from us within 3 days please make a working assumption that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We w ill, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for. Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items: Qualifications: Relevant CIPP/CIPD qualification or equivalent level of experience GCSE Level A-C Maths, English or equivalent Experience: Customer service experience HR and / or Recruitment experience Use of ICT Skills & Abilities: A bi lity to prioritise work and meet deadlines Ability to communicate and develop excellent working relationships Ability to work as part of a team as well as demonstrating own initiative Ability to work effectively towards performance targets ALD Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please