Overview

The Recruitment Team Leader plays a key role in contributing to the development and delivery of the Recruitment service for Derbyshire Community Health Service NHS Foundation Trust, Derbyshire Healthcare Foundation Trust and the NHS Derby and Derbyshire ICB.

In partnership with another Team Leader you will ensure our recruitment processes are efficient and continue to meet the needs of stakeholders.

You will understand the importance of using data to establish hard to fill vacancies and use your expert knowledge of inclusive recruitment practices to influence recruitment planning.

Main duties of the job

• You will line manage a team ensuring the day to day running of the recruitment service is fair and inclusive and stakeholders are responded to in a timely manner.
• Supported by the Recruitment Manager, be the main contact for UK visas and Immigration dealing with day to day queries from candidates, managers and UK Visas and Immigration and you will be the escalation point for complex queries from the team.
• Be the escalation point for complex queries from the team including candidate complaints and escalate to the Recruitment Manager where required.
• To apply recruitment knowledge to support a high quality recruitment service ensuring recruitment is conducted in a fair and inclusive way.
• Participating in relevant internal and external working groups/projects to provide information/analyst advice and support and to maintain data collection systems for its effective use by the team

About us

Our purpose is to provide community health services to a patient population of over one million people in Derbyshire and Derby, as part of Joined Up Care Derbyshire.

We employ around 4,200 substantive staff, caring for patients in 11 community hospitals and more than 30 health centres, as well as in clinics, GP practices, schools, care homes and, increasingly, in people's own homes and via virtual consultations.

During the pandemic response we have led the implementation of public vaccination centres in collaboration with partners across health and social care.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you.

Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's job share, part time or another flexible pattern.

If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Job responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification. To apply, please click APPLY FOR THIS JOB - this link will take you to the TRAC Recruitment Site. You will need to register if you do not already have an account.

Person Specification

Education, Qualifications and Training

• Educated to degree level in relevant subject or significant inhouse recruitment experience
• Service/quality improvement methodology

Experience and Knowledge Required

• Experience of managing and or supervising work of colleagues
• Knowledge of UK visas and immigration policies
• Experience of providing advice and guidance to managers and stakeholders on recruitment and selection strategies
• Experience of using recruitment software
• Knowledge of equality, diversity and inclusion and how these impact on the recruitment process

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer name

Derbyshire Community Health Services NHSFT

Full-time,Flexible working,Home or remote working,Compressed hours