Bright Horizons
Divisional Onboarding Officer - FTC
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Divisional Onboarding Officer - FTC
Salary: £doe - from £29k
Type: Fixed Term Contract
- 9 months / Full Time / Remote / 37.50 hours per week / Some travel to our HO in Northampton
- Closing Date: Two weeks from opening date unless a candidate is hired sooner
Purpose of Role
Acting as an advocate of the Bright Horizons Safer Recruitment Policy, as an Onboarding Officer you will own the end-to-end onboarding process for all new hires for nurseries within your allocated division, as well as providing advice, and support, to ensure the company always complies with regulatory requirements and internal policies.
What We Can Offer You
- Our benefits include, but are not limited to:
- Flexible working and holiday entitlements
- Discounted childcare
- Quarterly Employee Appreciation Weeks
- Annual gala award evening
- Fantastic range of discounts on high street retailers, grocery stores, cinema tickets, holidays and more
- Wide range of wellbeing resources, supporting our teams for the ups and downs of daily life
Why Bright Horizons?
Our support functions enable our nurseries to deliver the best possible care and education to over 10,000 children across the UK. Through this support, our nurseries can deliver excellence – with 98% of our 270+ portfolio being rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted.
We’re on a mission to change the future for children, families, and the people we work with, and are committed to progressive working values like flexibility, work-life balance, and wellbeing.
Key Tasks and Responsibilities
What You'll Be Doing:
- Working alongside the Talent Acquisition team to identify all requirements and compliance needs for any candidates offered employment within one of our nurseries.
- Working to clear KPI targets.
- Responsibility for all onboarding checks for new starters – DBS Checks, right to work checks, obtaining suitable references, and checking of qualifications as per Bright Horizons Safer Recruitment Policy.
- Acting as the first point of contact for compliance enquiries.
- Confidence to make informed suitability decisions, in line with Department of Education (DfE) guidance, and Bright Horizons policies and processes.
- Assist with weekly compliance reports to management and key stakeholders.
- Create sound internal controls for your division and monitor adherence to these.
- Contributing to the drafting and revision of company policies, when required.
- Keep abreast of changes in regulation and legislation, especially relating to the childcare sector.
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Essential Experience
- Experience in a similar role – high volume background and right to work checks in recruitment, HR or regulated environment.
- Experience in checking and verifying qualifications in Early Years.
- Strong communicator, who can effectively communicate to all levels, both written and verbally.
- Ability to prioritise workload, whilst working towards and exceeding targets, to ensure compliance demands of the business are met.
- Ability to work collaboratively with colleagues at all levels.
- Knowledge of right to work and pre-employment checks.
- Strong IT skills, including MS Office.
Desirable
- Experience of Workday system (desirable).
- Experience of compliance within the childcare sector (desirable).
Bright Horizons Commitment
Bright Horizons is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. This post is subject to safer recruitment practice and pre-employment checks, including an enhanced DBS check, which will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed. We are an inclusive employer and welcome people from all ages and backgrounds to apply. We will consider reasonable adjustments required by applicants.
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Apply today! We look forward to receiving your application.
Our Culture
At Bright Horizons, our culture is built on our commitment to Keeping Everyone Safe and providing world-class care and education, delivered by a world-class workforce. We believe our people’s potential is endless and with this in mind, we aspire to create an environment where our colleagues can thrive and accomplish the things they thought impossible.
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Bright Horizons has been recognised as a Great Place to Work by our employees and the Great Place to Work Institute for the last 13 years. We care passionately about what we do, and our HEART values and principles help us support one another in the work that we do each day. These are quite literally at the HEART of our organisation’s ethos and culture as it helps us to provide a working environment that supports professionalism, growth and diversity.
We are passionate about our people’s ongoing learning and development. Our learning and leading with HEART framework supports each Bright Horizons colleague on the first steps of their leadership journey, whether that includes our 'World-Class Welcome' induction or our extensive ongoing training programme. Either way we want you to feel valued and invested in!
Celebrating in the accomplishments of our people is an essential part of our culture. We believe in the power of “thank you” and throughout the year, in ways big and small, formal and informal, we show our appreciation for employees at all levels. We have many ways to acknowledge and celebrate our people, including our very popular “employee appreciation month”. This is a chance for everyone to share their gratitude to one another, across the whole company.
Whether it is a “thank you” placed on our website, a chocolate pizza, team lunch or an ice cream van visit, it is our way of showing each other we care and appreciate everything we do.
Each year, we have our annual 'Awards of Excellence' events; whether you are an award winner or cheering on a fellow team member, these formal award occasions are opportunities to come together and celebrate one another.
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