Recruitment lead - united kingdom, tadworth, surrey

an exciting opportunity has arisen for a recruitment lead to join our people team. this role will require the successful candidate to support both the recruitment & compliance manager and director of people & culture, in ensuring that the organisation's recruitment strategy is both innovative and effective in attracting, recruiting and retaining high-quality, talented individuals whilst also looking to continuously improve both our recruitment and compliance procedures. this role will primarily recruit for our professional support or non-clinical roles, including finance, fundraising & communications, facilities, people, housekeeping as well as lead on recruitment for our non-maintained school on-site and our charity shops across surrey and kent.

with a passion for building effective stakeholder relationships, as well as an eye for detail, you will implement creative and proactive "in-house" recruitment methods, to ensure vacancies are recruited in a time efficient and effective manner, whilst supporting our managers throughout the children's trust recruitment process and also playing an important role in ensuring that we adhere to relevant recruitment and regulatory requirements, and subsequently contribute to our overall ofsted care and cqc ratings.

the ideal candidate will be educated to degree level or possess demonstrable, equivalent professional recruitment experience (a minimum of 3 years), particularly within an 'in-house' setting being confident in designing, facilitating, and evaluating effective recruitment initiatives. considerable experience of advising managers on operational recruitment issues and of working in challenging, operational environments, with changing and competing priorities is essential for this role. you will have exceptional customer service skills, a proven team player and management experience and have the ability to influence positive change and decision making.

this role involves hybrid working, with a minimum requirement of 2 days working in the offices at tadworth court, surrey.

please note: the children's trust application form must be completed and submitted, in order for your application to be considered. as part of the shortlisting process, gaps in employment will be examined and will be further explored during the interview process.

closing date: 8th may 2022

strictly no agencies please.

as we often receive high levels of applicants for our roles, we regret that we will only be able to contact those applicants who are shortlisted for interview. therefore, if you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, please assume you have not been shortlisted for interview on this particular occasion.

the children's trust is the uk's leading charity for children with acquired brain injury, providing expert rehabilitation, education, therapy and care at our national specialist centre in tadworth, and to children and their families across the uk, via our brain injury community service.

boasting a beautiful 24-acre site in surrey, we are located just outside of london, close to the m25 (accessible via junction 8, a217 to tadworth) and easily accessible via national rail, by way of: clapham junction, sutton and epsom.

the work we do is highly rewarding, and in addition to an attractive salary, we offer a valuable range of benefits, including, adoption pay, time off for fertility treatment, enhanced paternity leave, paid carers leave, time out days for those experiencing menopause symptoms, time off for gender reassignment, and much more. we also offer additional annual leave days for those with long service, with entitlements ranging from 35 to 41 days (including bank holidays) depending on your length of service. other benefits include: free on-site parking; a staff shuttle service from coulsdon south, epsom and sutton train stations to tadworth court; subsidised cafeteria; on-site staff accommodation (subject to availability); the ability to retain your nhs pension (where applicable) or the opportunity to join an alternative scheme; and the opportunity to develop and implement your expertise in an environment that is as unusual in its beautiful historic nature, as it is unique in its state-of-the-art facilities.

the children's trust is fully committed to protecting children and young people. all posts at the children's trust are subject to an enhanced dbs check. if you are applying to the children's trust, and are already registered with the dbs update service, this will speed up the recruitment process significantly.

the children's trust has a duty of care to minimise the risk of all infectious diseases to the vulnerable and extremely vulnerable children and young people in our care, as well as our employees and volunteers. as a result, we require staff to provide a valid nhs covid pass (or proof of covid vaccinations or medical exemption) for all roles at tadworth court and in the brain injury community service. we also expect staff to have taken or be willing to take relevant immunisations required by the role to protect them against infectious diseases, (unless you are medically exempt).

at the children's trust we recognise how important it is to have leadership that reflects the children, young people and families that we support. we also recognise that staff, comprised of a range of skills, backgrounds and experiences will help us to better understand the needs of those we support, and how we can best represent their interests. we, therefore, particularly welcome applications from disabled people, individuals from diverse ethnic backgrounds and those from other under-represented groups. the children's trust is committed to achieving equity, diversity and inclusion (edi) across all levels of the organisation.

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