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Recruiter Apprentice & Shift Bookings Coordinator

East Bergholt
£18.7k/yr
Posted 4 days ago
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As we continue to grow, we are looking for an organised, confident and proactive Apprentice Recruiter & Shift Bookings Coordinator to join our team. This is a varied role combining recruitment, candidate management and shift coordination alongside completing a relevant apprenticeship qualification.

Your responsibilities will include:

  • Recruiting Support Workers, Team Leaders and other residential childcare professionals
  • Advertising vacancies and proactively sourcing suitable candidates
  • Screening applications and conducting initial interviews
  • Completing safer recruitment and compliance checks
  • Obtaining references and ensuring candidate files meet our compliance standards
  • Coordinating onboarding and training for new workers
  • Building strong relationships with our existing agency workers
  • Managing staff availability and keeping our systems up to date
  • Receiving and processing shift bookings from clients
  • Allocating suitable staff to shifts
  • Proactively working to fill outstanding bookings
  • Dealing with cancellations, sickness and last-minute changes
  • Communicating regularly with clients and keeping them updated on outstanding bookings
  • Visiting client children’s homes to build and maintain strong working relationships
  • Supporting our 24/7 service through participation in the on-call rota
    • Answering urgent out-of-hours staffing calls during allocated on-call days
    • Managing out-of-hours sickness and last-minute cancellations
    • Contacting available agency workers and proactively trying to arrange replacement cover
    • Keeping clients updated where an out-of-hours staffing issue arises
  • Identifying strong temporary workers who may be suitable for permanent opportunities with our clients
  • Supporting the continued growth of Heycroft Staffing Solutions
  • Completing your apprenticeship qualification alongside your role

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Course contents:

  • Identify, progress, and convert leads into new candidates, placements, or clients.
  • Source vacancies in line with stakeholder requirements and organisational policies and procedures.
  • Manage and maintain stakeholder relationships and their role within the recruitment process.
  • Interpret and apply regulation and legislation, share best practice, and advise stakeholders on their application.
  • Plan and manage recruitment campaigns to attract candidates, including agreeing objectives with stakeholders and monitoring performance.
  • Research, identify and attract candidates using methods to satisfy job requirements, including those with transferrable skills to move from the legacy carbon economy to green economy jobs.
  • Process, review, and progress candidate applications.
  • Create and present diverse short lists of candidates to stakeholders.
  • Inform and advise candidates on the outcome of their application at the individual stages of the recruitment process, including those that have been unsuccessful.
  • Manage the recruitment and selection process for candidates, including those who require reasonable adjustments.
  • Communicate information through different media, for example face-to-face or online meetings, emails, reports, and presentations.
  • Engage with stakeholders to review recruitment processes and identify opportunities for continuous improvement and improving own performance.
  • Review services provided and implemented improvements based on stakeholder feedback.
  • Place candidates into roles that match their skills and stakeholder requirements.
  • Use technology and software tools to manage information, ensuring compliance with organisation and legislation requirements.
  • Challenge poor practice and non-compliance with the recruitment process and escalate where appropriate.
  • Identify future changes in the sector that may impact the organisation, for example technology advances.
  • Interpret policies to support and promote the delivery of equity, diversity, and inclusion in the workplace, and monitor their impact on recruitment activities.
  • Identify and apply sustainable and greener methods of working, for example reducing energy and paper consumption, managing diaries to reduce carbon emissions (hold virtual meetings or attend multiple external meetings on the same day), considering greener options when booking venues for assessment centres or planning recruitment campaigns.
  • Identify and maximise opportunities to support the organisation’s business strategy, for example growing client or candidate pipelines.
  • Manage resources within budget requirements.
  • Respond to stakeholder complaints and escalate where appropriate.

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Alongside your day-to-day role, you will complete a relevant apprenticeship qualification, giving you the opportunity to develop your knowledge and skills while gaining practical experience within recruitment and staffing. You will be given appropriate time and support to complete the learning requirements of your apprenticeship.

This is a great opportunity for someone looking to start or develop a career in recruitment while working towards a recognised qualification.

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Skills

talent management strategies
coordinate shifts
interrogate individuals
ensure compliance with legal requirements
check correctness of information
build business relationships
organise information on availability of the team
manage changes in ICT system
process booking
communicate with customers
work in shifts
customer service
attend to detail
communication
develop creative ideas
show initiative
identify digital competence gaps
work in an organised manner
solve problems
sales activities

Location

Unit 4CD, The Gattinetts, East Bergholt, Colchester CO7 6QT, UK

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