Are you a strong leader seeking an exciting opportunity within the NHS?
We are looking for dedicated individuals to join our team and help drive success within our recruitment service. As a Recruitment Team Leader, you’ll play a key role in reducing our time to hire and enhancing the experience for both candidates and hiring managers. If you have leadership experience and a passion for making a difference in healthcare, we want to hear from you.
Yorkshire Ambulance Service is expanding its recruitment team as part of an investment in the service. Currently, the team includes one Recruitment Team Leader. We are now recruiting two additional Team Leaders to join the Recruitment Management Team, working closely with the Recruitment Lead and Recruitment Manager.
In this role, you will:
• Support and line-manage a team of Recruitment Assistants.
• Oversee the coordination of vacancies and applicants.
• Ensure the Trust meets its Workforce Plan objectives with high-quality recruitment services.
This is an exciting time to join the recruitment team at Yorkshire Ambulance Service, as we work to create efficiencies and provide an opportunity to make a real impact on the organisation and, ultimately, the patients and communities we serve.
The postholder will lead recruitment efforts for a specific service area within the Trust, working closely with hiring managers and building strong relationships across departments to ensure the efficient and effective delivery of recruitment services for that service area. They will create and develop a culture of continuous learning and improvement, customer focus and service excellence within the Recruitment Team.
They will support the Trust’s vision to be an Anchor organisation working to provide opportunities for the employment of the local community. This will include the continual review of our systems and process to reduce barriers to employment, particularly for protected groups. In addition, they will support the development and delivery of new and innovative approaches to recruitment, ensuring inclusive practices, and delivering targeted campaigns, attracting applicants from a range of diverse backgrounds to ultimately make Yorkshire Ambulance Service an Employer of Choice.
We welcome informal discussions if you would like to learn more about the role before submitting your application. Please feel free to contact Leah Moorhouse, Recruitment Lead, (leah.moorhouse2@nhs.net) or Jodie Ormondroyd (jodie.ormondroyd@nhs.net) Recruitment Manager, for further details to arrange this discussion.
This role offers remote hybrid working arrangements, the recruitment team operates with a mix of remote and office working to support business needs.
Interview date: 9 January 2025
Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) NHS Trust geographically covers nearly 6,000 square miles of varied terrain, from isolated moors and dales to urban areas, coastline and inner cities.
We serve a population of over five million people across Yorkshire and the Humber and strive to ensure that patients receive the right response to their care needs as quickly as possible, wherever they live.
We employ more than 7,100 staff, who together with over 1,300 volunteers, enable us to provide a vital 24-hour, seven-days-a-week, emergency and healthcare service.
Our ambition is to be an employer of choice, and we are continuously working across our partnership to improve our collective offer to staff in areas like health and wellbeing, benefits and flexible working incl. hybrid working.
Benefits:
• Flexible working including part-time hours, job shares and flexible hours, agile working (role dependant)
• 27 days annual leave, increasing to 33 with service.
• Contributory Pension.
• NHS Discounts including shops, restaurants, gyms etc.
• Car lease and other salary sacrifice schemes (salary dependent)
• Dedicated employee assistance and counselling service.
• Opportunities for research participation, career progression and ongoing development.
• Well respected, committed and supported staff networks for our workforce.
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• Provide an efficient and customer focused recruitment service as set out in relevant organisation and NHS wide policies and procedures
• Monitor, produce, analyse and interpret recruitment statistics to identify improvements required and to monitor and evaluate the impact of improvements
• Oversee and administer all necessary safer recruitment pre-employment checks ensuring adherence to Trust HR procedures, NHS Employment Checks Standards, and relevant legislation, including Home Office legislation. This will include handling and communication of sensitive information relating to right to work, criminal records, health and any issues which may impact on the applicant’s employment. The postholder will therefore be required to give reassurance as well as being clear about the requirements to meet employment checks in order to safeguard the Trust from risk.
• Effectively organise and prioritise individual recruitment caseloads monitoring the workloads of recruitment assistants to ensure that the team meet the required standards of performance.
• Ensure that team members fully understand their roles and responsibilities and develop expertise in recruitment processes to provide relevant advice and support
• You will need the ability to negotiate, consult and appropriately influence to achieve effective resolutions to recruitment concerns. Time management skills are paramount, including the ability to prioritise conflicting workload demands in line with the differing stakeholder required.
To be successful you must be able to demonstrate strong communication skills, the ability to develop effective working relationships, empowering and motivating the recruitment team members by providing the tools, support, and guidance they need to flourish and grow in their roles.
This advert closes on Wednesday 18 Dec 2024