How you'll make a difference

The Recruitment team provides a dedicated, professional recruitment service to all departments across the authority including Adult and Children Social Care, Finance, Education, Public Health and IT.

You will work closely with our line managers and provide full support and guidance to our candidates, ensuring their recruitment journey from application to first day is engaging and seamless.

This is a varied role where the administration work you will provide is detailed and complex.

Although this role is full time (37 hours) we would welcome applications from those looking for part time hours at a minimum of 30 hours a week.

This is for a limited term contract until 31 December 2024.

What will you be doing:

Day to day, you will be first point of contact for customers contacting the Recruitment team, these will be in the form of incoming calls and emails into our shared team inbox.
Using a variety of systems, you will proactively carry out all relevant pre-employment checks in line with safer recruitment guidelines and Council policies and procedures. This will include producing and sending offer letters and obtaining references, DBS, medicals etc.
By using your problem-solving skills, you will identify and resolve issues that may cause a delay in candidates starting on time. This can include chasing DBS or missing references, and highlighting any problems where an alternative course of action may be needed.
Daily, you will support our staff and managers on our recruitment system (ATS) and keep in contact with candidates to support them through their onboarding journey.
You will also support with advertising internal and external jobs.

What we need from you

It is essential for you to have recent in-house recruitment administration and onboarding candidate experience gained in a complex organisation.
Due to the nature of the role, you will need strong customer service skills with a customer centric approach to processes and issue resolutions.
It would also be a benefit if you have used any HR databases, applicant tracking systems and other computer packages, for example Microsoft Office.

How a career at South Gloucestershire Council is different

We know our team work best when they have balance in their lives and we offer genuine flexibility to help them achieve that work/life balance.

We value our staff as individuals, investing in their careers and we are recognised for the quality, breadth and depth of our training and development offer, which helps make the greatest long-term difference in work.

We recognise that our diverse team of skilled and dedicated people make us a great place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and developed on the basis of their merits and abilities.

Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a real difference to the lives of people who live, work and learn here.

We’re providing essential services across our internal network to ensure we can fully support our community.
We’re positive and forward thinking, always looking for new and innovative ways of working work and we’re ambitious about the future.

We've achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.

We’re making a difference, be part of it!

For more information, please contact Victoria Carter-Miles on email [email protected].

This is a hybrid role with a mix of working from home and regular team days in the office located at Badminton Road, Yate.

Although this role is full time (37 hours) we would welcome applications from those looking for part time hours at a minimum of 30 hours a week.

This is for a limited term contract until 31 December 2024.

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Recruitment Administrator

How you'll make a difference

What we need from you

How a career at South Gloucestershire Council is different

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