Recruitment Advisor

Reed HR are working alongside a large Educational Establishment based in South East London who are recruiting for an experienced Recruitment Advisor on a permanent basis. This role is hybrid, so travel into the office is required (2 days) 

Purpose of Role:

To work closely with our recruiting managers to support the establishment in attracting and recruiting high quality candidates.

To support our Resourcing Partner in the coordination of the end-to-end recruitment process, providing a consistently high quality, customer focussed, timely, and effective recruitment service.

Advising managers on all aspects of our recruitment and selection processes, this role will support best practice in recruitment and ensure compliance with our policies and procedures, in turn underpinning our equality diversity and inclusion strategy and commitments.

To monitor the effectiveness of our recruitment provision through periodic reporting.  This includes monitoring performance against our recruitment service level agreement, advertising spend/effectiveness, and progress in attracting candidates from diverse backgrounds.

Responsibilities

· Work with the Resourcing Partner to provide comprehensive, specialist recruitment advice to managers across the business.

· Advising on job design and the writing of quality job descriptions/relevant person specifications, ensuring that text uses gender neutral language.  Ensuring that content clearly sets out our commitment to safeguarding, as well as equality, diversity, and inclusion.

· Use the HERA job evaluation framework (Hay for senior posts) to evaluate new roles and confirm their grading within our pay scales.

· Assist managers with advert copy to maintain consistency of voice, use of gender-neutral language and reflect our commitment to safeguarding and recruitment of a diverse workforce.

· Coach managers in the use of effective selection criteria at both application and interview stage.  Screening selection criteria presented to ensure that they comply with employment law and recruitment best practice.

· Advise on our advertising standards and processes for advertising in additional media when required. 

· Assist managers in the use of recruitment agencies as required.  This will include signposting to appropriate agencies on our preferred suppliers list, as well as indentation of specialist agencies and negotiation of placement fees/preferential rates.

· Assist managers identify any additional selection methods which may be appropriate prior to advertisement e.g. micro teaching session, presentation, tiered interviews, in-tray exercise etc.

· Ensure that appropriate positive action statements are applied to our advertisements.

· Ensure that all relevant information (job description, job evaluation, grade, selection criteria, advert copy) has been checked prior to handing over roles to our People & Culture Administrators for shortlist/interview processing.

· Advise managers post-interview to ensure compliance with our agreed appointment processes including starting salary.

· Manage the start date expectations of managers as recruitment activity is handed over to our HR Operations Team for further processing (pre-employment checks/onboarding timelines).

· Work closely with our HR Operations Team to ensure a seamless service to our internal and external customers.