SYP - Talent Acquisition Assistant

Role:  Talent Acquisition Assistant

Department: Strategic Resourcing – People and Organisational Development

Location:  Nunnery Square

Salary: £19,452 - £21,135

Hours: 37 per week

Contract Type: Permanent

Role Purpose:

We have an exciting opportunity which has arisen for an Assistant on the Talent Acquisition Team.

This role sits within the Strategic Resourcing function and is essential to providing first line advice to employees, hiring managers and candidates across the organisation. You will provide an excellent level of customer service.  

The role also supports the delivery of an effective recruitment and selection process to meet the requirements of the workforce plan for all staff groups including police officers, police staff, apprenticeships, promotions, special constables and volunteers. Ensuring we are using best practice and are an employer of choice, using different resourcing methods and techniques to search for candidates, understanding how candidates react differently to adverts and other selection methods.

You will be responsible for managing candidate caseloads, planning and supporting the resourcing and promotion processes including placing adverts, inviting candidates to interview, conducting pre-employment checks for large numbers of candidates, and providing general policy and terms and conditions advice.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide first line advice and guidance to line managers and staff in relation to resourcing queries.
• Provide support to the People Business Partners with areas of work and intelligence gathering.
• Assist in the preparation of adverts, job descriptions/bandings and person specifications ensuring compliance with statutory obligations and the promotion of SYP as an employer of choice.
• Develop and produce reports for the Strategic Resourcing team with assistance from P&OD business analysts.
• Perform transactional services such as requesting references, vetting training records and certificates etc. ensuring all checks meet the required standard.
• Ensure deadlines are met relating to all aspects of the recruitment and selection process from placing adverts through to the pre-employment checking process and confirmation stage within the key performance indicator targets.
• Ensure people information systems and records are accurately maintained.
• Develop and maintain letter templates and guidance for policies.
• Support the forces recruitment strategy including positive action
• Provide support to the resourcing team and wider force by collecting biometrics from candidates and facilitating interviews, workshops and career events with the expectation that this will entail evening and weekend work.
• Work closely with the HR team during the offer process for new recruits keeping a high level of communication with the candidate at all times.
• Seek and provide feedback to applicants on the progress of their applications.
• Support delivery of promotion activity.
• Operate within office hours of 8:30 – 17:30 and carry lock up responsibilities of Nunnery Square
• Undertake any other work as directed including working at other locations.

For further information relating to the role and tasks of this position, please refer to the attached role profile.

Skills and experience:

Our ideal candidate will have: 

• Knowledge of basic employment law and ability to demonstrate application
• Customer centric approach
• Excellent communicator
• Ability to organise themselves and work streams to a high standard
• Self-motivated
• Attention to detail and comfortable managing multiple tasks
• Ability to use own initiative and make decisions
• Experience in an administrative/ business support role.

Benefits:

We offer generous entitlements and supportive policies to enable a better work-life balance, some of which are listed below:

• Generous annual leave allowance
• Flexible and agile working
• Generous ‘family’ leave
• Voluntary CPD Events for all staff to allow continuous development
• Mentoring & Coaching Scheme
• Paid Professional Subscriptions when relevant to role
• Access to a range of occupational health facilities
• Generous pension scheme
• Employee assistance service (accessible 24/7)
• Additional benefits for Westfield Health members
• Cycle to work scheme
• Sports and Social Club

Eligibility:

Applicants must meet the minimum requirement checkable history criteria, which must be taken into account for individuals applying to work with South Yorkshire Police in any capacity.  A minimum checkable history of 5 years is required for this role and successfully undergoing recruitment vetting procedure is a pre-requisite of employment with South Yorkshire Police.

Appearance & Standards:

All tattoos and piercings must be in line with South Yorkshire Police’s Appearance and Standards policy.  Tattoos visible on your face, neck, hands or head are not permitted.  Any tattoos which could be deemed inappropriate or cause offence will also not be accepted.  If you have tattoos, you will need to make a declaration at the time of application.

Closing Date:

Friday 6th August 2021 at 23:55

Closing dates are not normally extended, other than in exceptional circumstances and agreement is made with the Talent Acquisition Manager, Recruitment and the Line Manager for the role.

Contact point for applicants:

For further information about the role, please contact Chris Painter on Recruiting@southyorks.pnn.police.uk  Please do not contact this email address for an application form.

Diversity & Inclusion:

South Yorkshire Police welcome applications from under-represented communities.  For further information on diversity and inclusion within South Yorkshire Police, please visit the diversity and inclusion page:

https://www.southyorkshire.police.uk/sign-up/join-team-syp/diversity-in-the-force/

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