Resourcing Advisor

**About Us**
West Sussex County Council is a diverse organisation that provides services to more than 850,000 residents every day. The Human Resources and Organisational Change Directorate provides critical support functions to our services, relentlessly focusing on delivering better and cost-effective outcomes. Our teams use their experience to enable and challenge the Council to deliver improved efficiency and effectiveness.

For more information about West Sussex County Council, please visit our **WSCC About Us** page.

The recruitment team in West Sussex County Council are looking for a resourcing/ Recruitment officer to join our team to support across corporate Recruitment within the council.

The Resourcing Team is made up of 23 people, The Resourcing Manager is Angela Oakley reporting into her we have our Permanent Recruitment Team, Temporary Recruitment Team, and Talent Attraction team.
**About The Job**
Salary**: £29,577- £32,234
**Working Pattern**: Full-time (37 hours per week)
**Contract Length**:Permanent
**Location**: County Hall, Chichester
**Interview Date**:TBC

Here at West Sussex County Council, what we do changes lives.

Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment? Do you want to be part of a customer focused team with motivated and driven people? Are you passionate about finding and recruiting the best talent for your customers?

You will report to the Senior Resourcing Advisor and manage a small team of recruitment administrators.

**Experience and Skills**
Key Skills**:

- Ability to understand and analyse resourcing requirements to produce short
- and long-term resourcing plans and strategies to meet demand
- Ability to work effectively with others to achieve team objectives
- Excellent communication skills and ability to build strong relationships with key stakeholders
- Ability to manage and lead a small team
- Excellent customer service skills, with the ability to anticipate, respond and meet/exceed customer expectations with a continuous improvement mindset
- You will be resilient and have the ability to manage challenging situations and competing demands including ensuring recruitment policies and practices are adhered to by hiring managers.

**Qualifications and/or experience**:

- A background in recruitment, either in-house or agency, with a knowledge of recruitment resource strategies, attraction and selection processes, including the ability to develop screening criteria and interview questions and champion the legal and ethical requirements in recruitment
- Previous experience of using an Applicant Tracking System (ATS)
- Psychometric Testing Levels A & B (desirable)
- Level 4 Diploma in Recruitment Management or equivalent HR qualification or experience
- Experience of working within Children’s Social Care. **Desirable
**Rewards and Benefits**
As an employer we recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive and dynamic working environment where employees can achieve their full potential, achieve a healthy work-life balance, and are rewarded for the work they do.

In addition to working within a great team and a brilliant opportunity to start your Learning and Development career you will receive:

- A competitive salary.
- **26** days annual leave (pro rata) + bank holidays.
- A generous pension scheme.
- Training and development opportunities, including coaching and mentoring
- A range of discounts giving our staff access to hundreds of offers with the opportunity to save over £1,000 a year through our West Sussex Choices benefits platform
- Discounted membership at selected local sports and fitness centres
- A range of commuting and business travel discount and initiatives

For a full list of the benefits offered to you as a West Sussex County Council employee, go to our **Rewards and Benefits** page.
**Further Information**
The reference number for this role is **CRS00574**.

Note for Recruitment Agencies: We prefer to hire people directly, but we do have a supplier list for when we need a helping hand. We'll be in touch directly if we need you

Job Reference: CRS00574