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 Integrated Care Board (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.

Responsibilities

• Line manage a team to ensure 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.

Qualifications and Experience

Education, Qualifications and Training

• Essential: Educated to degree level in relevant subject or significant in-house recruitment experience

Desirable:

• Service/quality improvement methodology

Experience and Knowledge Required

• Essential: 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

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 details

• Employer name: Derbyshire Community Health Services NHSFT
• Address: Walton or Kingsway, Chesterfield or Derby, DE1 3QT
• Ability to work from home

Employer's website: http://www.dchs.nhs.uk/