Job summary
How can we attract the best talent and highest quality candidates to our Trust? This is the question you will solve for Gloucester Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust if successful in gaining this role. You will lead in developing solutions that allow our organisation to attract, develop and retain talented individuals. Working with the Assistant Director for resourcing, your work will be an essential element of the delivery of a robust recruitment plan for the organisation.
This new role will be responsible for developing and delivering the Trust's Attraction Strategy. Bringing a wealth of recruitment marketing experience, using creativity and passion, to deliver the best possible recruitment brand for the Trust and ensure we are working at the cutting edge of recruitment practice.
The role will also be expected to work with colleagues from the wider People & OD team, as well as key stakeholders inside the Trust to deliver employer brand initiatives and campaigns.
Main duties of the job
The role will also lead on developing our internal communication and listening channels, improving how we shape information to the needs of all service users. Additionally, the role will lead on helping blend digital and traditional approaches to improve both hiring manager and colleague experience throughout the recruitment process.
The post holder will be responsible for the delivery and management of resourcing development projects and manage development initiatives across the Trust ensuring they are delivered within agreed objectives, targets, quality standards and cost constraints.
The post holder will support the Assistant Director of Resourcing in improving efficiencies through innovation, contributing to the development and growth of the service and creation as a centre of excellence for recruitment and resourcing. The post holder will play a key role in supporting strategic service development and commercial growth.
About us
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the largest employer in the county and with over 8,000 staff, we are one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK. We offer a generous annual leave allowance, excellent bank rates, access to the excellent NHS Pension Scheme, discounts for local shops, restaurants and services, access to our health and well-being hub, access to our two on-site nurseries, flexible working options, discounted public transport, reward and recognition schemes, exercise and activity classes and membership to our popular hospital choir.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key areas of responsibility
Attraction Strategy
- Engage, develop, plan and deliver a robust attraction strategy, drawing on a refreshed recruitment brand, social media, events and articles
- Develop a social media presence and approach, training team members and actin as the expert
- Maintain the recruitment intranet and internet pages, ensuring they are attracting staff to apply
- Develop a series of staff stories to use in advertising and media to improve attraction to Gloucestershire Hospitals roles
- Share cutting edge recruitment and attraction developments with the team to ensure we are maximizing opportunities
- Ensure that all adverts and advertising material are written in the best way to promote the Trust and attract more people to apply
- Design and set up manager user groups to engage managers in the recruitment and attraction processes, seek feedback and share updates and developments
- Design and deliver new joiner experience surveys and focus groups to learn from recruitment and onboarding experiences to celebrate success and inform improvements
- Analyse data, develop reports and presentation to share feedback and recommendations
Recruitment Expertise
- Adopt strong communication skills, ensuring recruitment leads are kept up to date on progress and that roles and responsibilities during any recruitment process is clear from the outset
- Design and deliver complex attraction campaigns to ensure optimum resourcing and support the delivery of Trust objectives and current operational plans
- Provide timely data and information on the progress of recruitment plans including tracking deployment, onboarding, time to hire and other KPIs
- Develop policies and technical procedures which have an impact across the Trust and provide highly specialist resourcing advice and share industry knowledge, skills and expertise.
- Be an active participant in designing and delivering the Trust-wide clinical and non - clinical resourcing initiatives, ensuring divisional colleagues are aware of progress and are open to every opportunity
- Contribute to the development of resourcing strategy, processes and best practice to ensure that manual and technical processes and systems meet business needs in terms of workforce planning and resourcing.
- Contribute to the development of a centre of excellence for the Resourcing Service taking responsibility for business development within area of responsibility.
- Information resources
- Produce accurate, on time data for regular and ad hoc reports on service area activity against targets and KPI
General Responsibilities
- Work collaboratively with the internal Communications Team to align recruitment communications with wider messaging and activity
- Partner with the HR Business Partners, Divisions and specialities to collaborate on designing campaigns focusing on hard to recruit areas
- Work with the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion team to ensure that best practice on inclusive recruitment is adopted and well communicated
- Lead on such projects and initiatives that will develop and promote the Trust employment brand so that the Trust becomes a top employer of choice, instigating and implementing new processes and fit for purpose technical systems that increase departmental efficiency, compliance and reduces spend.
- Take the lead on specific projects which support service improvement and delivery across the organisation and appropriately manage resources in the delivery such projects and initiatives ensuring they are high quality, to time and within budget.
- With the recruitment managers, ensure that the pipeline of candidates is managed well to make sure that any potential loss is minimized
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key areas of responsibility
Attraction Strategy
- Engage, develop, plan and deliver a robust attraction strategy, drawing on a refreshed recruitment brand, social media, events and articles
- Develop a social media presence and approach, training team members and actin as the expert
- Maintain the recruitment intranet and internet pages, ensuring they are attracting staff to apply
- Develop a series of staff stories to use in advertising and media to improve attraction to Gloucestershire Hospitals roles
- Share cutting edge recruitment and attraction developments with the team to ensure we are maximizing opportunities
- Ensure that all adverts and advertising material are written in the best way to promote the Trust and attract more people to apply
- Design and set up manager user groups to engage managers in the recruitment and attraction processes, seek feedback and share updates and developments
- Design and deliver new joiner experience surveys and focus groups to learn from recruitment and onboarding experiences to celebrate success and inform improvements
- Analyse data, develop reports and presentation to share feedback and recommendations
Recruitment Expertise
- Adopt strong communication skills, ensuring recruitment leads are kept up to date on progress and that roles and responsibilities during any recruitment process is clear from the outset
- Design and deliver complex attraction campaigns to ensure optimum resourcing and support the delivery of Trust objectives and current operational plans
- Provide timely data and information on the progress of recruitment plans including tracking deployment, onboarding, time to hire and other KPIs
- Develop policies and technical procedures which have an impact across the Trust and provide highly specialist resourcing advice and share industry knowledge, skills and expertise.
- Be an active participant in designing and delivering the Trust-wide clinical and non - clinical resourcing initiatives, ensuring divisional colleagues are aware of progress and are open to every opportunity
- Contribute to the development of resourcing strategy, processes and best practice to ensure that manual and technical processes and systems meet business needs in terms of workforce planning and resourcing.
- Contribute to the development of a centre of excellence for the Resourcing Service taking responsibility for business development within area of responsibility.
- Information resources
- Produce accurate, on time data for regular and ad hoc reports on service area activity against targets and KPI
General Responsibilities
- Work collaboratively with the internal Communications Team to align recruitment communications with wider messaging and activity
- Partner with the HR Business Partners, Divisions and specialities to collaborate on designing campaigns focusing on hard to recruit areas
- Work with the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion team to ensure that best practice on inclusive recruitment is adopted and well communicated
- Lead on such projects and initiatives that will develop and promote the Trust employment brand so that the Trust becomes a top employer of choice, instigating and implementing new processes and fit for purpose technical systems that increase departmental efficiency, compliance and reduces spend.
- Take the lead on specific projects which support service improvement and delivery across the organisation and appropriately manage resources in the delivery such projects and initiatives ensuring they are high quality, to time and within budget.
- With the recruitment managers, ensure that the pipeline of candidates is managed well to make sure that any potential loss is minimized
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree or equivalent training, knowledge, skills and experience
Desirable
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience managing attraction campaigns within a high-volume resourcing/recruitment market
- Experience delivering Clinical and Non - Clinical recruitment campaigns
- Demonstrable success achieving demanding targets and meeting service level agreements
- Significant experience of recruitment account management and partnership working gained within either the public or private sector organisations (in-house or agency)
- Significant experience managing service development and delivering workforce strategy
- Experience working to demanding targets and meeting tight deadlines
- Experience delivering resourcing campaigns and initiatives with budgetary constraints
- Experience working in marketing communications, an ability to create engaging content and in line with brand guidelines to reach target audiences
- Sound working knowledge of digital communication channels, in particular social media and content management systems, using analytics and best practice (SEO) to improve results
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Exceptional verbal and written communication; able to communicate clearly and effectively on arrange of highly complex resourcing issues
- Excellent presentation skills; able to communicate contentious, sensitive and highly complex information to large groups
- Able to think and plan strategically, tactically and creatively and to prioritise in the face of competing demands
- Highly developed business acumen and sound political judgement in working within complex policy and diverse range of interest groups
- Specialist knowledge of recruitment, selection methods, the external market and best practice
- Expert knowledge of attraction methodologies and current market challenges
- Able to provide expert specialist advice on resourcing issues including solutions to attraction and selection of skill shortage occupations
Desirable
- Able to interpret, integrate and apply employment legislation across a key range of recruitment platforms
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree or equivalent training, knowledge, skills and experience
Desirable
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience managing attraction campaigns within a high-volume resourcing/recruitment market
- Experience delivering Clinical and Non - Clinical recruitment campaigns
- Demonstrable success achieving demanding targets and meeting service level agreements
- Significant experience of recruitment account management and partnership working gained within either the public or private sector organisations (in-house or agency)
- Significant experience managing service development and delivering workforce strategy
- Experience working to demanding targets and meeting tight deadlines
- Experience delivering resourcing campaigns and initiatives with budgetary constraints
- Experience working in marketing communications, an ability to create engaging content and in line with brand guidelines to reach target audiences
- Sound working knowledge of digital communication channels, in particular social media and content management systems, using analytics and best practice (SEO) to improve results
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Exceptional verbal and written communication; able to communicate clearly and effectively on arrange of highly complex resourcing issues
- Excellent presentation skills; able to communicate contentious, sensitive and highly complex information to large groups
- Able to think and plan strategically, tactically and creatively and to prioritise in the face of competing demands
- Highly developed business acumen and sound political judgement in working within complex policy and diverse range of interest groups
- Specialist knowledge of recruitment, selection methods, the external market and best practice
- Expert knowledge of attraction methodologies and current market challenges
- Able to provide expert specialist advice on resourcing issues including solutions to attraction and selection of skill shortage occupations
Desirable
- Able to interpret, integrate and apply employment legislation across a key range of recruitment platforms
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
