Recruitment Officer
Job Ref: Bradford 5298303
Pay Rate: £16.08 per hour PAYE
Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday, 9:00-17:00
In person interview
Hybrid – 2 days per week on site
This opening assignment is for 3 months
Bradford BD5 0QL
Summary of what the candidate must have to apply:
- Previous experience in a recruitment or HR role.
- Experience managing recruitment processes from advert to onboarding.
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple vacancies and deadlines.
- Excellent communication and customer service skills.
- Experience using Microsoft Office and recruitment/ATS systems.
- Knowledge of recruitment best practice, employment legislation and equality, diversity and inclusion principles.
- Ability to work collaboratively with managers, candidates and internal stakeholders.
- Understanding of safer recruitment processes, including pre-employment checks.
The role: Bradford Children and Families Trust is seeking a Recruitment Officer to provide end-to-end recruitment support across the organisation. Working closely with hiring managers and candidates, you will help deliver an efficient, professional and inclusive recruitment service, ensuring a positive candidate experience while supporting the Trust's commitment to attracting and retaining talented people. You will manage recruitment administration, advertising campaigns, candidate communications, onboarding activities and pre-employment checks whilst maintaining accurate recruitment data and records.
Key accountabilities:
- Support the full recruitment lifecycle from vacancy approval through to onboarding.
- Create and manage recruitment advertising campaigns across relevant platforms.
- Coordinate shortlisting and interview processes with hiring managers.
- Conduct and monitor pre-employment checks, including references, right to work and DBS checks where required.
- Maintain accurate records within recruitment and applicant tracking systems.
- Provide guidance and support to candidates and recruiting managers.
- Produce recruitment reports and maintain data accuracy.
- Support recruitment events, careers fairs and outreach activities.
- Work with internal departments including HR, Payroll and IT to ensure a seamless onboarding process.
- Identify opportunities to improve recruitment processes and candidate experience.
- Ensure compliance with GDPR, safer recruitment practices and Trust policies.
Requirements/key criteria:
Essential:
- Experience within recruitment, HR administration or a similar administrative environment.
- Strong organisational and time management skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Customer-focused approach with strong attention to detail.
- Experience working with Microsoft Office applications.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience using recruitment systems, ATS platforms or databases.
- Knowledge of recruitment best practice, employment law and EDI principles.
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build effective working relationships.
Desirable:
- Public sector recruitment experience.
- Experience recruiting for specialist or hard-to-fill vacancies.
- Knowledge of safer recruitment practices.
- Experience with recruitment reporting and data analysis.
- Exposure to both agency and in-house recruitment.
- CIPD Level 3 qualification or equivalent.
How to Apply
- Quote the Job Title and Reference Number in your application.
- Submit your CV in Word format.
- Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis—early submission is recommended.
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If you do not hear from us within three working days, unfortunately your application has not been shortlisted on this occasion. Thank you for your interest in working with us.
Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the role to help support your application should be clearly shown in your CV. 