HR and Recruitment Officer

Key Responsibilities

Recruitment

• Lead end-to-end recruitment campaigns working closely with hiring managers.
• Establish key requirements from the department manager to understand the roles and required candidate specifications.
• Ensure that internal vacancies are circulated appropriately to all employees including those on leave of absence.
• Oversee the recruitment section of our Clients website to ensure that current vacancies are showcased appropriately
• Identify and source high quality candidates through direct searches, job boards and recruiting sites, candidate referrals, networking.
• Manage the preferred supplier list and review annually.
• Negotiate terms of business where required.
• Where appropriate, work with 3rd Party agencies to support the recruitment drives
• Screen, assess and qualify candidates against our Clients culture, values and the role competencies.
• Coordinate recruitment interviews and assessments for both internal and external recruitment.
• Liaise with Office Zebra and manage the video interview platform.
• Record and review recruitment costs
• Participate in candidate interviews as appropriate.
• Own the relationship with the short listed candidates for interview and ensure regular updates and feedback is provided.
• Create offers and close on offer negotiation.
• Ensure strong process compliance to enable the recruitment of exceptional talent.
• Review the recruitment strategy to ensure its relevance
• Ensure the recruitment procedure manual is kept up to date

HR

• Manage on boarding process including:

– Issuing offer letters and ensuring contracts of employment are issued and signed;
– organisation of new starter induction programmes;
– conducting pre-employment referencing, and;
– carry out medical and background clearance in compliance with Client policy and legal requirements.

• Ensure that Probation Reviews are completed within agreed timescales.
• Produce management information reports detailing recruitment time taken and cost per hire
• Work with the HR Manager to provide recruitment advice in line with HR policy and employment law to hiring managers
• Liaise with the People & Culture Manager to instigate new starter training programs.
• Provide out of office support to HR Manager and People and Culture Manager.
• Assist with the implementation of the HR software system, NaturalHR
• Attend probation reviews and other meetings to ensure standardisation and provide feedback where appropriate
• Record notes during grievance and disciplinary hearings
• Extract data from the HR software system to create reports

Other

• Support other members of the People & Culture team and undertake ad-hoc projects as directed by the Head of People & Culture.
• Maintain absolute discretion and maturity in handling sensitive/confidential issues, ensuring that all confidential data is retained or disposed of in line with the Data Protection Act and our Clients policies and procedures.