Recruitment Advisor

About the role
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.

This is a 12-month fixed-term contract, with the possibility of becoming permanent at the end of the 12 months.

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.

Interviews will be held at New Shire Hall, Alconbury Weald, on the 2nd and 3rd of May.

What will you be doing?

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 you
This 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).

About us
Cambridgeshire 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.

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.

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.

Our benefits
We 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