Location: Alcester
About us
Helping Hands are the UK’s most trusted home care provider, and we’re passionate about offering an industry-leading home care service. We’ve been providing home care for over 30 years, so we know what it takes to deliver exceptional care.
The Role
Reporting into a Recruitment Manager, you will support our Recruitment Team to effectively attract and retain the right people to deliver their business objectives and enhance our reputation in the market. To proactively source hard to fill roles reaching a passive candidate audience allowing us to diversify our talent pool and reduce time to hire.
This role is a fixed term contract for a period of 9 months and will be based at our support office in Alcester for 2-3 days per week. The remainder of your working week will be spent working from home.
What you’ll do
* Prioritising key roles as directed by Recruitment Manager to plan and execute a strategic sourcing strategy beyond traditional advertising methods
* Support a range of salaried roles according to business needs and support office roles as required, generating candidates and clearly monitoring progress to share with the Recruitment Manager
* Represent Helping Hands externally in proactive sourcing on a number of platforms
* Source great candidates directly and effectively through new, innovative, and existing sourcing methods as well as proactively find new talent pools including passive candidates to attract them to Helping Hands’ offering
* Identify opportunities to continually improve our approach to recruitment and the overall process (including identifying any best practice external insights and trends) to benefit all stakeholders
* Assess candidate suitability, including pre-screening calls when requested
* Support on generating candidates for recruitment assessment centres
* Build and maintain talent pools for key roles generating future starters and competitor information
* Support with ensure leaders and candidates are aware of compliance requirements throughout the recruitment process, escalating outstanding risks & issues as required
* Effectively and continually leverage technology and input accurate data into our recruitment systems at all times
* Generate data, insights & reports for key stakeholders to drive appropriate decision making and action
Who you are
You will ideally have had previous experience of sourcing candidates for hard to fill roles, in either a recruitment agency or internal recruitment team. This role is ideal for someone who is confident using a variety of sourcing methods and is systematic in their approach.
* Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
* Previous experience in recruitment resourcer roles, demonstrating a solid understanding of recruitment processes and best practices, including use of online marketing and search tools such as Job Boards, and basic Search Techniques utilising Candidate Databases/talent pools
* Highly competent in sourcing strategies and building and maintaining talent pools
* Proficient in IT, including Microsoft programmes, with prior experience using Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS).
* Committed to delivering high-quality work with meticulous attention to detail
* Possess a proactive and adaptable mindset, with a willingness to continuously enhance skills and knowledge
* Able to work independently under pressure to deliver set targets within specific timescales