As a Recruitment Officer, you will provide a professional, high-quality end-to-end recruitment service, supporting managers and candidates throughout the recruitment journey. You will play a key role in ensuring vacancies are filled efficiently while maintaining compliance with employment legislation and NHS employment standards and meeting national Time to Hire targets.

We are particularly interested in candidates with previous recruitment experience, who have a positive, proactive attitude and a good understanding of pre-employment checking processes.

About You

To be successful in this role, you will need to:

• Have substantial administration experience in a fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrate excellent organisational and administrative skills.
• Be able to manage a high workload and prioritise competing deadlines.
• Have strong attention to detail and accuracy.
• Possess excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Be confident using recruitment systems and Microsoft Office applications.
• Be committed to maintaining compliance and understand the importance of follow correct process.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a supportive team and make a real difference by helping recruit individuals who contribute to the delivery of outstanding patient care. You will gain exposure to a varied workload, work closely with managers across the organisation and have opportunities to develop your recruitment expertise within a busy and rewarding environment.

Main duties of the job

1. Provide expert guidance to managers on recruitment processes, employment legislation and equality and diversity principles.
2. Manage all aspects of the recruitment process from reviewing new vacancies through to appointment.
3. Advertise vacancies using NHS Jobs and other recruitment systems.
4. Coordinate recruitment activities, including application management, interview arrangements and candidate communications.
5. Escalate issues as required.
6. Support recruiting managers with selection and appointment processes.
7. Ensure all pre-employment checks are completed accurately and in a timely manner, including:

• References
• Occupational Health clearances
• DBS checks
• Professional registration verification
• Right to Work and identity checks

8. Produce and issue employment contracts and offer letters, ensuring accuracy and compliance.
9. Maintain accurate recruitment records and management information.
10. Manage a detailed candidate tracker.
11. Prepare recruitment reports and data as required.

12.Deliver a professional, customer-focused service to managers, candidates, and colleagues.

13. Attend off site recruitment events as required.

Working for our organisation

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton.  Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.

Our values

We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and creating a culture that values differences.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For full details of the role, please read the Job Description and Personal Specifications attached.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• NVQ Level 3 or 4 in administration or related subject or demonstrable equivalent proven experience.

Experience

Essential criteria

• Significant administrative experience in a busy environment.
• Knowledge of recruitment processes.
• Experience of working to tight deadlines.

Desirable criteria

• Experience of using NHS jobs, TRAC and ESR.

Personal Skills

Essential criteria

• Excellent communication and organisational skills with the ability to prioritise own workload.

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Excellent communication and organisational skills.
• Attention to detail and accuracy.
• Competence in the use of Microsoft Office.

It is an exciting time to join Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. We run two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Our 7,500 staff provide high quality care for a growing population of around 700,000 across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas.