Recruitment Officer - Part Time

Information

At CrossReach we are proud to deliver social care to a huge range of people right across Scotland. However, we can only do this if we have the right people with the right skills and with more and more people relying on us for support, recruiting the right people has never been so important.

 

As Recruitment Officer, you will be responsible for supporting our managers through the recruitment process, working with them to develop new and creative recruitment campaigns that reach the best people.

Day to day, you will be helping managers draft and post their vacancies across a range of platforms, maximising social media to ensure that our adverts get the best possible coverage. You will also support managers with their selection process, screening, and interviewing candidates to ensure the best fit. As our recruitment expert, you will be responsible for generating new pipelines and building relationships with higher education providers and schemes such as the Princes Trust.

You will also have a key role to play in supporting and guiding potential and current candidates through the recruitment process, ensuring that we deliver real customer service and that they are fully informed throughout the process. As we are in the process of investing in new recruitment software, this role offers a fantastic opportunity to make a real difference to the way that we manage our whole recruitment experience.

You will of course have experience in a similar recruitment role, but primarily we are looking for someone who can think creatively, provide great customer service and who is passionate about matching the right people to the right job.

Here at CrossReach, we strive to ensure that we are accepting, respectful and compassionate to both our customers and our employees. So, join us and you’ll be part of a professional environment with a range of development opportunities and a generous benefits package. It’s a career that will enhance your life and the lives of vulnerable people across Scotland.

Salary is pro rata of 38.5 hours per week.

If you would like to arrange an informal discussion about the role or have any questions, please contact Angelo Deponio on angelo.deponio@crossreach.org.uk.

Main Function

To support in the delivery of the full recruitment cycle including the development of recruitment campaigns, candidate sourcing and selection. To support in the delivery of a proactive recruitment plan to support local resourcing plans. To support in ensuring a proactive and customer focused approach, to maximise all enquiries and interest in CrossReach opportunities. 

Main Duties

1. Support managers throughout the full life cycle of the recruitment process. Guiding and coaching on best recruitment practices and approach.
2. Advise managers on the most suitable recruitment campaigns for all types of vacancies, both volume and non-volume roles across a range of disciplines, to maximise the potential candidate pool.
3. Proactively develop a wide range of creative and innovative recruitment campaigns, including digital marketing, to ensure successful recruitment.
4. Work with managers to develop necessary recruitment collateral, including drafting of adverts to ensure that all published materials appropriately describe the vacancy, benefits, and criteria.
5. Where required, provide recruitment selection support to hiring managers, including interviewing. Provide best practice support and coaching to less experience managers.
6. Act as super user for candidate management software to ensure capability is maximised. Identify and develop new workflows for individual recruitment campaigns to ensure best fit and improved candidate experience.
7. Post vacancies as required to both internal and external channels as agreed and approved.
8. Support the HR Operations Advisor, undertake regular communication with service units to ensure the continual review of resourcing plan and ongoing recruitment approaches and strategies.
9. Support the HR Operations Advisor to identify new resource pipelines to proactively promote careers in care.
10. Support the HR Operations Advisor in the delivery of the annual HR communications plan in respect of recruitment.
11. Act as first point of contact for all recruitment related enquires for potential appicants. Proactively following up on enquiries and escalating possible avenues to service managers as necessary.
12. Along with other members of the HR Operations Team, provide a customer centred approach to candidate management, support candidates throughout the recruitment process to maximise the candidate experience and ensure a successful recruitment.
13. Liaise with 3rd party suppliers, including external advertising parties to ensure the development of creative and innovative campaigns.
14. Proactively source candidates using a variety of alternative sources
15. Support the HR Operations Advisor to monitor and review the success of campaigns, conversion rates of individual mechanism and therefore the return on investment. 
16. Contribute to the ongoing development of best recruitment practice by benchmarking against other care providers
17. Work collaboratively with other members of the HR Team to provide support and cover as required across the HR Operations Team and the wider HROD team as necessary.
18. Demonstrate and share Christian love and support including sharing with others the leading of worship in accordance with CrossReach policy and by ensuring all staff meetings are opened with prayer and Bible reading.

Personal

As we do our work in Christ’s name the job you have applied for requires you to have a Christian faith and be able to work within and uphold our Christian Ethos.  This is an Occupational Requirement under Part 1 of Schedule 9 to the Equality Act 2010.

This post requires you to either complete a Disclosure or be a member of the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme and undertake the necessary vetting checks.

Skills and Abilities

• Relevant experience in a resourcing / recruitment role.
• Understanding of UK employment legislation regarding inclusive hiring.
• Excellent customer service skills
• Excellent prioritisation, organisational, inter-personal and communication skills.
• Experience of resourcing via social media and job boards.
• Confident using proprietary recruitment software.
• Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail with the ability to work to set deadlines.
• Excellent MS Office skills.
• Ability to manage simultaneous projects or tasks on a regular basis.
• Confident communicating with recruiting manager and candidates via all communication tools, (phone, face to face, SMS, video meeting platforms).