Resource Readiness Advisor
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 02 Gorffennaf 2025 |
|---|---|
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 01 Awst 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Bedford, MK42 9AB |
| Cwmni: | Reed Talent Solutions |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | MaPS00887-338295 |
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Resource Readiness Advisor
£46000 per annum
Bedford
Permanent
Hybrid Working
Join us at the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) as a Resource Readiness Advisor. This role offers you the chance to make a significant impact by ensuring our operational teams are equipped with the right talent and capabilities to deliver exceptional service. You’ll lead and support the talent acquisition process, collaborate with internal and external partners to maintain a strong candidate pipeline, and ensure a seamless onboarding experience for new starters.
You’ll also play a vital role in developing our existing workforce by supporting operational managers in creating and reviewing development plans and working with our quality and training teams to commission impactful training initiatives. As we prepare for further growth, your contributions will help shape a connected, capable, and values-driven hybrid workforce.
You will help ensure we have the right people and skills in place to serve our customers effectively—while fostering strong, happy, and well-connected home-based teams. Occasional travel will be required to support this important work.
You’ll be part of a dynamic team dedicated to helping people across the UK improve their financial wellbeing.
Role Overview
The Resource Readiness Advisor will report directly to Workforce Planning Manager. In this role, you will be responsible for:
Key Responsibilities:
Resource Strategy & Planning
- Develop and implement recruitment strategies aligned with business growth, in collaboration with senior leadership.
- Maintain job descriptions, build a talent pipeline, and create recruitment materials to attract high-quality candidates.
- Foster strong relationships with internal HR and external recruitment partners to optimise hiring processes.
Departmental Onboarding
- Lead the creation and maintenance of induction materials, ensuring alignment with training and performance needs.
- Oversee smooth onboarding transitions, supporting line managers with early-stage goal setting and development.
Workforce Planning
- Collaborate with the workforce planning team to ensure a steady flow of talent that meets service and operational demands.
- Coordinate with Quality and Training teams to align recruitment timelines and support successful probation outcomes.
Employee Integration & Support
- Act as a key contact for new hires during probation, tracking progress and identifying development needs.
- Support line managers with team and individual development and lead initiatives to enhance wellbeing and hybrid working.
You will need to demonstrate the following skills and experience.
To excel in this role, you will need to demonstrate:
- Experience in a recruitment and workforce development function, with a focus on large-scale operations.
- Experience of managing or supporting staff performance and development
- Communication and Stakeholder Management Skills: Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to form effective and collaborative relationships.
- Organisational at Skills: Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Attention to Detail: Ensures accuracy and consistency in the recruitment and onboarding processes.
- Cultural Fit: Strong alignment with our values of integrity, transparency, and customer-centricity.
About Us
The Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) is based in Bedford, in a recently renovated modern office. This is a wonderful opportunity for you to become an integral part of a dynamic organisation, working to help people across the UK.
At the heart of the Money and Pensions Service are our values – caring, connecting, and transforming, which are the foundation of our success. They permeate every area of our work and define all our business relationships and the way we work with each other. We’re not only looking for the best people to come and work for us, but we need people who align themselves with our values:
- Caring
We care about our colleagues and the people whose lives we are here to transform. - Connecting
We will transform lives through our ability to make positive connections. - Transforming
We are committed to transforming lives and making a positive societal impact.
Our Inclusive Working Environment
By fostering our values, we are immensely proud of the inclusive working environment that we have created. The diversity of our people is a strength that we embrace and wish to build upon, so we are committed to attracting people of all backgrounds. We work hard to ensure that we have a progressive approach to inclusion, equity, and belonging. We really do want our colleagues to “bring their whole selves to work.”
Our colleague and ally networks encompass LGBTQ+, neurodiversity, women’s health, men’s health, ethnicity, and diversity.
What We Offer
- Generous Annual Leave – 30 days plus Bank Holidays
- Pension scheme – contributions matched 2 to 1 (up to 10% of your salary)
- Interest-free loan for season tickets for buses and trains
- Cycle to work Scheme
- Subsidised eye tests & flu jabs
- Life assurance scheme
- Give as you earn scheme
- Employee assistance programme (EAP)
- PAM Assist and PAM Life scheme (Wellbeing)
- Enhanced family and sick pay
- Paid volunteering (2 days a year)
- Recognition Scheme
- Discounts portal to numerous retailers
Flexible Working
At MaPS, we take pride in our flexible approach to work. As standard, we work on a hybrid basis with a minimum of 2 days in the office per week. Hybrid working is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and our headquarters in Bedford will be your contractual place of work. The number of days that anyone will be able to work at home will be determined primarily by business needs, but personal and other relevant circumstances will also be considered. If you are successful, any opportunities for hybrid working, including whether a hybrid working arrangement is suitable for you, will be discussed with you prior to you taking up your post.
Career Development
In MaPS, we take career development seriously. We actively encourage and support applications from our existing MaPS colleagues. However, we do follow the Civil Service Commissioner recruitment principles, which means that you will be required to participate in a full, open, and fair process.
Reserve List
If you are successful at interview, we operate a reserve list where your details will be held for up to 6 months. Should a vacancy come available in that time with the same essential criteria, reserve list candidates will be offered that position with no further assessment required.
Application Process
The law requires that selection for appointment to the Civil Service is on merit on the basis of fair and open competition as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles. If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles, and you wish to make a complaint, in the first instance, you should contact the Money and Pensions Service via email: recruitment@maps.org.uk. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the Department, you can contact the Civil Service Commission: Visit the Civil Service Commission website.
Job Reference: MaPS00887
Close Date: 20/07/25
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