Senior Recruitment Assistant

1 week ago


Chester, Cheshire, United Kingdom Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Working hours: 22.5 hours per week - Permanent

Interview date: 05/07/2024


An exciting opportunity has become available for an experienced, motivated and enthusiastic individual to join a busy Recruitment Team as a Senior Recruitment Assistant at Team Countess.


Reporting to the Recruitment Advisor, the successful applicant will provide a professional operational service in the recruitment and selection of all new staff.

You will be the first point of contact, providing advice and support on recruitment and selection and/or contractual processes and procedures.

The successful applicant will have excellent communication skills with exceptional attention to detail.

You will be able to prioritise your own workload, working as a great team player as well as being able to work independently.


You will need to be able to fully utilise technology and administrative systems such as Trac, NHS Jobs and ESR in order to provide outstanding customer service in relation to all aspects of resourcing.

Experience using HR technology such as Trac, NHS job and ESR are highly desirable


Accountable to the Recruitment Advisor, the post holder will be responsible for providing a professional operational service in the recruitment and selection of all new staff and provide associated HR advice and support on Recruitment and Selection and/or contractual processes and procedures and the provision of a general first line advice on terms and conditions of service.


Under supervision the post holder will carry out administrative duties in line with laid down processes and procedures associated with Recruitment and Selection and/or administration of contracts processes and procedures in accordance with clients policies.

Responsible for responding to and resolving queries from clients received through the various communication channels of the advisory service.


The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board.

The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership.

Its services are provided from three locations:

The Countess of Chester Hospital:
providing 438 general and acute beds

Ellesmere Port Hospital:
providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility

Tarporley War Memorial Hospital:
a base for community services which serve the local rural population.


The Trust employs over 6258 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 407,000.

This includes 357,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000.


The Trust is a busy district general hospital and in 2022/2023, there were more than 503,342 patient attendances (inpatient, outpatient and diagnostic) ranging from a simple outpatient appointment to major cancer surgery.

This is an increase of nearly 10,000 compared to the previous year when there were 494,387 patient attendances.

See Job Description for further details.

Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.

You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £13 per year applies.

New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.

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