Onboarding Coordinator

Avenues is a community where people smile, laugh, grow and achieve great things.

We have an amazing opportunity for a full time Onboarding Coordinator to join our Recruitment team based in our Head Office in Sidcup on a 6 month fixed term contract. This role is to help support Avenues with a brand new service we are opening based in Radlett, St Albans and so occasional travel may be required to this location on an as and when basis.

The roles are full time, 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday and we offer hybrid working with 2 days in our Head Office in Sidcup and the rest of the week working from home.

This is an amazing opportunity to join our team of friendly and highly driven In-house Recruiters and Onboarders to make a positive difference to someone’s life by recruiting Social Care professionals.

Working in a dynamic and fast-paced environment, you will provide a first-class on-boarding service to new employees, including but not limited to;
- Be responsible for the new employee on-boarding process in line with operational procedures and policies.
- Provide a proactive on-boarding administrative service to key client areas making sure all relevant checks are undertaken and ensuring legal and statutory compliance.
- Provide advice and guidance to managers and staff around onboarding, referring more complex issues to the Recruitment Business Partner and the HR team.
- Maintain the onboarding area of the Applicant Tracking System.

**The ideal Onboarding Coordinator looks like this**
- Experience in onboarding of new employees within a HR or Recruitment function in a medium sized organisation (or similar role)
- Desired background in Social Care or the educational sector, not essential.
- Knowledge and understanding of UK & European employment legislation.
- Experience of using databases to store, manipulate and retrieve data.
- Experience of using Microsoft Office packages in an office environment.
- Able to communicate effectively both orally and in writing to all levels within the organisation
- Able to work under pressure and to prioritise workload to ensure deadlines are met.
- Experience of using an Applicant Tracking System (ATS), desired.
- Self-motivation and flexibility.
- Attention to detail.

**Your values should match ours**:
Respect: We treat people as we would wish to be treated ourselves.

Excellence: We don’t settle for okay, we are determined to achieve more.

Integrity: We do the right thing, even if it takes more time and effort.

Pride: The work we do is something we want to tell others we are part of.

**Why join us?**

We are committed to supporting our employees to achieve a good work-life balance and support flexible working including working from home. Our head office is located in Sidcup, and we have other offices in Surrey, Suffolk, Shropshire and Kent.

We encourage our central services employees to really get to know the organisation and to spend time visiting services, meeting people we support, their families and our support staff.

You’ll be part of an organisation that takes pride in its values at all levels, making sure the people we support are at the forefront of our decisions.

**Benefits you can expect**
- Flexible Working.
- 31 days holiday inclusive of bank holidays (pro-rata), increasing after to 2 years’ service and after 5 years’ service.
- Refer a friend bonus scheme - earn up to £500.
- Shopping discount via Blue Light Card and The Bene£its website.
- Free and confidential 24/7 access to a health portal, counselling and support.
- Contributory pension scheme with life assurance.

Interviews will be arranged on an ad hoc basis and so the role might close earlier than stated if a successful applicant has been found.