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Recruitment Officer | Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust

Job details
Posting date: 16 September 2024
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £24,071 - £25,674 per annum
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 16 October 2024
Location: Canterbury, CT1 1AZ
Company: Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
Job type: Contract
Job reference: 6633408/380-SS0588

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Summary


We are seeking a Recruitment Officerto cover a secondment until June 2025.

As a member of the Recruitment team you will ensure the recruitment process is carried out in a confidential, smooth and timely manner.

You will be the first point of contact for hiring managers and candidates providing specialist guidance and advice at various stages of the recruitment process. This includes advertising, interviewing, shortlisting, pre-employment checks, onboarding and ensuring all new starters are processed in a timely manner.

You will also support key recruitment projects enabling the recruitment team to deliver high volume, quality and streamlined recruitment services.

You will needexcellent ICT skills, previousexperience of working in a busy customer focused environment, ideally in recruitmentand the ability towork effectively under pressureand prioritise workload to meet deadlines and KPIs.

The team is currently based at home for 80% of the working week, with 20% being spent on-site in Canterbury, in accordance with our current hybrid working policy. Travel to other KMPT locations may be required.

This post is open to both external candidates and internal KMPT staff who may be interested in this role on a secondment basis.
• Support hiring managers with the end-to-end recruitment process and advise them throughout the process to minimise delays.
• Preparation of advertisements for internal and external publication ensuring the information is accurate and presented in the appropriate format that adheres to current employment law.
• Prepare and send out recruitment correspondence for interviews via Trac
• Please see the job description/person specification attached for full details of the responsibilities

Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.

We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.
Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.

We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.

You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.

The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.
Our strategy

Our mission is what we set out to do every day
We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people

Our vision is where we want to be in the future
To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.
• Represent Trust at Job Fairs and Recruitment Exhibitions.
To act on own initiative, complying with HR procedures and seeking advice from the Assistant Recruitment Manager when necessary.
• To follow the six NHS Employers Standard Employment Checks and the Recruitment and DBS policy
• Represent Trust at Job Fairs and Recruitment Exhibitions.
• To act on own initiative, complying with HR procedures and seeking advice from the Assistant Recruitment Manager when necessary.
• To follow the six NHS Employers Standard Employment Checks and the Recruitment and DBS policy.

Please see the job description/person specification attached for full details of the responsibilities.

Here are some clips of our KMPT staff, speaking about their role and why they enjoy working for us.

Working at KMPT (youtube.com)

Canterbury site tour (youtube.com)


This advert closes on Monday 23 Sep 2024

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