The role
About Southwark:
Southwark is a large, ambitious and progressive council with a ‘can do’ attitude and enviable reputation. As a Council, we are successful, passionate and forward-thinking. We are committed to our ‘Fairer Futures for All’ promise which ensures that our residents and businesses are central to everything we do. If you want to make a difference at a local level, apply to Southwark Council today.
The Role:
We are seeking to appoint two HR Assistants on a 1 year fixed term contract, who will primarily work to recruit hard to fill vacancies across Southwark’s Adults and Children’s services, namely Social Workers and Occupational Therapists. The focus being the on-boarding of new starters in a professional, proactive and seamless manner; and the successful induction of new hires. We want our candidate’s to experience support at every step of their recruitment journey with us. The role will also provide additional HR operational support to a very busy HR function, including supporting projects and casework.
About you:
The ideal candidate will be able to support managers with day to recruitment queries and identify when to escalate matters to a senior member of staff.
You will be proficient in working in a timely manner to maintain an efficient recruitment timeline will be a self-starter and work well as part of a team.
You will be able to carry out pre-employment checks including right to work checks and various clearances in line with domestic or international recruitment.
You will be adept at using HR and Recruitment systems, to collate, store and review data.
If you want to be part of a progressive and modernised HR function and feel you meet the criteria we look forward to receiving your application.
Additional salary details
Additional Information:
This is a one year fixed term opportunity.
Benefits and more information:
From flexible working to job sharing (where possible) we are committed to providing a healthy work life balance. You will benefit from 26 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), rising to 36 days with continuous service, a generous local government salary related pension, cycle to work and cycle loan scheme, season-ticket loan, confidential wellbeing and counselling support. For more information about the wide variety of benefits you can take advantage of please visit our Staff Benefits page
- https://jobs.southwark.gov.uk/why-us/
- https://jobs.theguardian.com/minisites/southwark-council/life-at-southwark-benefits-and-more/
Recruitment timetable
Closing Date: 28/09/2022
Interview Date: W/C 17/10/22
We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together initiative. We particularly welcome applications from members of the black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.
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