Are you a people person with a passion for making a difference? Join us in our mission to support the recruitment of social care professionals who are dedicated to uplifting our communities. You can help us to achieve our corporate vision of becoming a greener, fairer and more caring Cambridgeshire.
Our team supports recruitment for services across Adults and Childrens Social Care, as well as providing advice and guidance for other teams across the council. Due to internal promotion, we have a vacancy for a Recruitment Advisor to join us! Don't worry if you don't have recruitment experience, if you have excellent customer service and administration skills and share our values, we'd love to hear from you.
We work on a hybrid basis, from home or at our purpose-built, state of the art offices in Alconbury Weald. We try to get together at least a couple of times a month for collaborative working and when required (if you'd prefer to work in the office more regularly, you're able to do so). Additional face-to-face time in the office will be provided to support with your induction, training and development.
Although mainly working remotely, the team are in frequent contact with each other and always available to talk to; we have a friendly, encouraging working environment.
The role is available full-time, but we can consider part-time applicants, as a council we have a flex-from-first approach allowing flexible working requests from day one.
The council is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and the Recruitment Team work to ensure that we promote and develop fair, unbiased recruitment practices.
For more information about the role, please contact Samantha Holland-Morris at samantha.morris@cambridgeshire.gov.uk , and I will be happy to arrange a call at a convenient time to answer your questions and give you some detail about the role.
Interviews will be held at New Shire Hall, Alconbury Weald, on the 2nd and 3rd of May.
Our benefitsWe value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits:
- Flexible working
- Flexible Bank Holidays
- A comprehensive wellbeing package
- Our Cambs Rewards employee discounts
- A comprehensive pension scheme
- IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network.
- Camweb our staff intranet helping to keep you informed
- An employee recognition scheme
What will you be doing?A big part of your role will be getting to know applicants and communicating with them on a daily basis to answer questions and ensure the candidate journey is smooth and efficient.
You will manage the recruitment process end-to-end, from advertising to onboarding new starters joining us. You'll work collaboratively with recruiting managers across the council, and be in regular communication with them to identify needs and ensure that vacancies are filled in a timely fashion.
You'll be using our internal recruitment system as well as a variety of other platforms including LinkedIn, NHS Jobs and Indeed.
Taking the time to understand data and reporting needs, you'll be working with your Team Leader to provide information and feedback to a variety of audiences including Senior Management.
For more information, please see the attached Job Description/Person Specification.
About youThis is a busy role, so you should be able to effectively manage your time and workload to prioritise and deliver to deadlines (working to planned interview/start dates etc.)
The ability to communicate effectively and influence stakeholders at various levels is key, as you'll need to build collaborative working relationships, to understand and support the needs of the service.
Vacancy numbers can fluctuate significantly within the services, so an adaptable and resilient approach is required to respond positively to changing demands.
You'll be confident with MS Office and able to learn new IT systems (we provide support and guidance documents).
If you feel you have relevant transferable skills, please do apply as we will always take this into account when shortlisting.
About usCambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don't meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don't be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Some examples of adjustments could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.
Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.
https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers