Divisional Recruitment Officer

Would you like to contribute to patient care by ensuring we have recruited exceptional clinical staff? We are seeking dynamic and proactive team players to provide administrative support for recruitment activity within our Nursing teams.

Your role will be vital in liaising with clinical teams and Recruitment, supporting recruitment processes and initiatives. Through your innovative skills, you will have the opportunity to propose new recruitment ideas to attract Nursing staff to Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust.

If you thrive in a fast paced and frequently changing work environment, are able to demonstrate excellent organisational / IT / administrative / team working skills, with the ability to multi-task, this could be the perfect role for you.

The post holder will provide a high quality, effective and timely recruitment and selection admin service to the Division. Supporting the strategic Trust vision for Nursing recruitment and retention.

You will progress Divisional recruitment administration support ensuring the provision of an efficient, effective and timely service, which is compliant with Trust policies and procedures and best practice.

Develop and maintain effective working relationships with divisional teams and wider HR colleagues and customers, working with individual clinical teams to effectively prioritise and plan recruitment initiatives, to ensure proactive service delivery which is compliant with departmental workforce plans and provide advice and guidance to Divisions as required in relation to recruitment and selection.

The post holder will liaise with the recruitment team to ensure full utilisation of Trac and NHS Jobs supporting a streamlined and efficient service provision. Ensuring the correct recruitment protocols/procedures are followed and that housekeeping is completed in a timely manner.

You will assist in the collection, monitoring, and reporting of recruitment data for the Division, ensuring compliance with policies and SLA’s at all times.

For full job description and main duties please see the attached job description and person specification.

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is a large acute hospital Trust in the county of Kent.

The Trust provides a full range of general hospital services and some areas of specialist complex care to around 500,000 people living in the south part of West Kent and the north part of East Sussex.

The Trust’s core catchment areas are Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells and their surrounding boroughs. We work from two main clinical sites: Maidstone Hospital and Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury. Tunbridge Wells Hospital opened in 2011 and provides single rooms with en-suites for all in-patients - the first of its kind in the country.

We employ over 6,500 full and part-time staff in a huge range of clinical and non-clinical roles across both of our hospital sites.

We are passionate in supporting our staff to develop and have great opportunities for career progression. We take equality and diversity seriously and seek to empower all diverse groups within our trust. We seek to develop a culture where diversity in all its forms is celebrated. We are committed to ensuring that women are empowered to work at all levels of management and that working patterns are as flexible as possible giving all members of staff opportunity to flourish in using their skills for our patients. We work across our trust to enable those who consider themselves to have a disability both visible and invisible to have access to all they need to thrive in their work environment. We work hard to embed an inclusive and accepting culture for all lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and non-binary staff. We have 78 nationalities working in our trust and we are proud of this. We are active in embracing the ethnic and cultural diversity in our trust. We work to empower people with any protected characteristic to have opportunities to work in an environment that helps them to contribute to the best of their ability, recognising and valuing the unique contributions each of us brings for best quality care and service to our patients. We are committed to supporting the delivery of the Equality Act with zero tolerance for any discrimination, harassment or victimisation of applicants and staff with these protected characteristics. MTW also has active Disability, LGBT+ and Cultural Ethnic Minorities Networks to bring staff together and in act positive change

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**Interview Date**: To be confirmed