Main area: Recruitment Co-ordinator
Grade Band: 3
Contract: Fixed term: 6 months (To be added by Medical HR)
Hours:
* Full time
* Flexible working
* Home or remote working
22.5 hours per week (Hybrid working in line with policy)
Job ref: 380-SS0613
Site: Priority House, Town: Maidstone
Salary: £24,071 - £25,674 pro rata per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 12/01/2025 23:59
The CQC rates us as an Outstanding organisation for Caring with an overall rating of Good
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT) offers a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce across the Trust. From an active health and wellbeing programme to regular recognition events, we work hard to provide varied benefits that make a difference to your work-life balance.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you.
Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to join the medical staffing team.
As a member of the medical recruitment team, you will ensure the recruitment process is carried out in a confidential, smooth and timely manner.
You will need excellent IT skills, previous experience of working in a busy customer-focused environment, ideally in recruitment and/or medical staffing team and the ability to work effectively under pressure and prioritise workload to meet deadlines and KPIs.
The team is currently based at home for 80% of the working week, with 20% being spent on-site in Maidstone, in accordance with our current hybrid working policy. Travel to other KMPT locations may be required.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will be based within the Medical Staffing department, working closely with the Medical HR Recruitment Leads and Deputy Medical Staffing Manager to ensure the provision of a professional, high quality, customer-focused medical recruitment service.
The post-holder will support the activities of all of the Trust’s Medical recruitment, ensuring all administrative processes are carried out in a timely manner.
Please see the job description/person specification attached for full details of the responsibilities.
Working for our organisation
We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.
Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.
We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.
You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the job description and person specification attached for full details of the responsibilities.
* Experience of working with IT Software packages
* Good written and verbal communication skills
* Willingness to undertake training
* Experience in recruitment, using Trac Software system
* Experience in the use of ESR/NHS Job sites/e-DBS
* Ability to work on own initiative, within guidelines. Due to the diversity of tasks, there is a need to work effectively under pressure and prioritise workload and meet tight deadlines.
* Experience within a Medical HR Department or area of high confidentiality.
* Previous experience of working with senior staff
* Experience of system interfaces.
* Experience of abiding by organisational policies and processes.
* Experience of maintaining confidentiality and handling sensitive information.
Skills and knowledge
* Excellent organisational and interpersonal skills
* Ability to communicate at all levels.
* Ability to provide prompt and pragmatic problem-solving advice.
* Excellent attention to detail
* Adaptable to meet changing environments and goals.
* Ability to absorb new information quickly
* Flexible approach to problems and working practices.
* Willingness to develop new skills
* Commitment to equal opportunities.
* Ability to write and present clear, concise and relevant reports to various audiences.
* Reporting skills and experience of using data metrics.
* Confident, flexible, adaptable to change with the ability to work autonomously and part of a wider team.
* Able to demonstrate a commitment to self-development
Your employer pays 20.6% towards your pension and life assurance benefits.
27 days for full time or pro rata if part time
After 5 years NHS service
29 days full time or pro rata if part time
After 10 years NHS service
33 days full time or pro rata if part time
Plus bank holidays, that’s up to 41 days - more than 8 weeks paid time off!
Medical staffs have national Terms and Conditions.
Buying and selling of annual leave is also available as part of our flexible approach to staff benefits.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Name: Jacquie Dixon
Job title: Medical Staffing Manager
Email address: Jacqueline.Dixon3@nhs.net
Telephone number: 07707 151857
If you have problems applying, contact
Address: Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust
Eastern & Coastal Area Offices
Littlebourne Road
Canterbury
CT1 1AZ
Telephone: 01227 230855 | ext. 730855
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