Job summary
Join Us in Shaping Healthcare Recruitment at the SWL Recruitment Hub!
Are you ready to take your talent acquisition expertise to the next level? Look no further! At the SWL Recruitment Hub, we're on a mission to revolutionise healthcare recruitment within the NHS. If you're a passionate and experienced Talent Acquisition Lead, eager to make a lasting impact on patient care and healthcare outcomes, this is the opportunity you've been waiting for.
Why Choose Us:
- Competitive Salary: We value your skills and experience, and we show it with a competitive salary that recognises your contributions.
- Comprehensive Benefits: Your well-being matters to us. We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including generous annual leave, market leading pension scheme, flexible working, and staff discounts, ensuring you're taken care of.
- Professional Growth: We're all about growth and development. Join a progressive healthcare recruitment hub and seize opportunities to expand your skills and advance your career as we continue to develop as a pioneering, highly ambitious recruitment service.
- Impactful Work: Your work here directly contributes to the advancement of healthcare and patient care through top-tier talent acquisition. It's not just a job; it's a chance to make a real difference.
Main duties of the job
About Us: At the SWL Recruitment Hub, we're not your typical recruitment team. We're a dynamic and collaborative initiative within the NHS, working to source and attract the best healthcare talent to meet the evolving needs of the industry. We're responsible for managing recruitment across 5 independent sovereign Trusts, successfully filling around 500 vacancies each month. If you're excited about making waves in healthcare recruitment and creating a lasting legacy, this is the place to be.
Who We're Looking For: If you're a strategic thinker who likes getting their hands dirty, loves connecting and building relationships, and you're driven by matching the right people to the right roles, you're the perfect fit. If talent acquisition is your superpower, both executive search and volume attraction, and you have deep expertise and an established network in healthcare recruitment, we'd love to hear from you.
Join Us in Shaping the Future: If you're itching to shape the future of healthcare recruitment, if you're driven by the idea of attracting the best healthcare professionals, and if you're ready to influence healthcare outcomes in the SWL region, we're excited to meet you. Your passion and expertise will make an impact that resonates far beyond the interview room.
About us
Kingston Hospital - First Acute Trust in London to be rated Outstanding by CQC for Overall Quality and Leadership
Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a district general hospital situated in a beautiful and remarkable part of the country - close to London yet surrounded by royal parks, historic buildings and the River Thames. We are located on a single site in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey and run several outpatient clinics in neighbouring areas including Raynes Park Health Centre and Teddington Memorial Hospital.
We employ 3,300+ staff who proudly and efficiently support over 350,000 people locally through a full range of diagnostic and treatment services and we have a national reputation for innovative developments in healthcare, particularly in 'patient-focused' care, day surgery and maternity services.
Health and Wellbeing & Staff Benefits
The Trust understands that benefits go beyond just financial rewards and offers a wide range of benefits that recognise staff contribution, provide opportunities for career development and offer initiatives to promote a healthy work-life balance. -Our Health Heroes Awards 2018 - Staff Retention and Wellbeing Employer of the Year. -HPMA Vivup Award for Well Being 2019.
Trust Values
Kingston Hospital NHS Trust has four key values and we want to employ and work with people who share these values and demonstrate behaviours that support them. They are:
- Caring
- Safe
- Responsible
- Value Each Other
Job description
Job responsibilities
Ready to Join Us?
Jump straight in and apply now, or if youve got questions, feel free to call for an informal, confidential conversation. Let's work together to create a healthier and brighter future through top-tier talent acquisition!
Advert closing: 12 September 2023 Interviews: 25/26 September 2023
Job description
Job responsibilities
Ready to Join Us?
Jump straight in and apply now, or if youve got questions, feel free to call for an informal, confidential conversation. Let's work together to create a healthier and brighter future through top-tier talent acquisition!
Advert closing: 12 September 2023 Interviews: 25/26 September 2023
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- oGeneral education to degree level or equivalent experience and equivalent professional experience
Desirable
- oCIPD Level 7 or working towards
Experience
Essential
- oCreating and implementing successful bespoke attraction campaigns for volume roles within healthcare, such as; Band 5 Nurses, HCAs/HCSWs, clinical admin roles and estates an facilities roles
- oCreating and implementing successful bespoke attraction campaigns for hard to fill roles within healthcare, such as; ODPs and community Nurses
- oCreating and implementing successful bespoke attraction campaigns for C-suite and senior appointments within healthcare, such as; CPO, CFO, COO and Director level roles across corporate functions
- oArranging and managing attraction campaigns, involving elements such as; webinars, open events and recruitment open days
- oExperience of managing multiple talent attraction projects simultaneously
- oWorking with KPIs and targets, aimed at reducing time and cost per hire
- oProactive and direct candidate sourcing, using a range of different media such as; external job boards, social media promotion and advertising, LinkedIn, personal networks, virtual and face to face networking
- oCreating, nurturing and maintaining talent maps and talent pipelines
- oCreating, nurturing and maintaining talent pools of appointable candidates to be placed
- oExperience of using an e-recruitment system
Desirable
- oExperience of supervising others in a customer service environment
- oUnderstanding of Agenda for Changes terms and conditions.
- oDelivering training or presentations to an audience.
- oUsing and advising on occupational testing tools such as level A and B psychometrics and SJTs
Skills
Essential
- oConfident and credible interviewing skills
- oDeep understanding of a range of roles in healthcare, leading to strong shortlisting skills
- oCandidate management and offer negotiation
- oExcellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to utilise them to communicate effectively within a pressurised environment
- oAbility to form, build, develop and maintain positive and effective working relationships with people from a wide range of professional backgrounds
- oAbility to interpret and advise on terms and conditions, policies and employment legislation
- oExcellent customer service skills
Desirable
Knowledge
Essential
- oMost appropriate attraction strategies for sourcing healthcare professionals
- oInnovative candidate generation techniques
- oAn appreciation of the recruitment challenges associated with the healthcare sector and NHS in particular
- oA high level of IT literacy including working knowledge of Microsoft Office systems and practice
- oWorking knowledge of the UKBA right to work rules and regulations
- oGeneral Data Protection Regulation and Freedom of Information Acts
- oEqual Opportunities and valuing diversity and how it applied to the NHS (i.e WRES, WDES)
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- oGeneral education to degree level or equivalent experience and equivalent professional experience
Desirable
- oCIPD Level 7 or working towards
Experience
Essential
- oCreating and implementing successful bespoke attraction campaigns for volume roles within healthcare, such as; Band 5 Nurses, HCAs/HCSWs, clinical admin roles and estates an facilities roles
- oCreating and implementing successful bespoke attraction campaigns for hard to fill roles within healthcare, such as; ODPs and community Nurses
- oCreating and implementing successful bespoke attraction campaigns for C-suite and senior appointments within healthcare, such as; CPO, CFO, COO and Director level roles across corporate functions
- oArranging and managing attraction campaigns, involving elements such as; webinars, open events and recruitment open days
- oExperience of managing multiple talent attraction projects simultaneously
- oWorking with KPIs and targets, aimed at reducing time and cost per hire
- oProactive and direct candidate sourcing, using a range of different media such as; external job boards, social media promotion and advertising, LinkedIn, personal networks, virtual and face to face networking
- oCreating, nurturing and maintaining talent maps and talent pipelines
- oCreating, nurturing and maintaining talent pools of appointable candidates to be placed
- oExperience of using an e-recruitment system
Desirable
- oExperience of supervising others in a customer service environment
- oUnderstanding of Agenda for Changes terms and conditions.
- oDelivering training or presentations to an audience.
- oUsing and advising on occupational testing tools such as level A and B psychometrics and SJTs
Skills
Essential
- oConfident and credible interviewing skills
- oDeep understanding of a range of roles in healthcare, leading to strong shortlisting skills
- oCandidate management and offer negotiation
- oExcellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to utilise them to communicate effectively within a pressurised environment
- oAbility to form, build, develop and maintain positive and effective working relationships with people from a wide range of professional backgrounds
- oAbility to interpret and advise on terms and conditions, policies and employment legislation
- oExcellent customer service skills
Desirable
Knowledge
Essential
- oMost appropriate attraction strategies for sourcing healthcare professionals
- oInnovative candidate generation techniques
- oAn appreciation of the recruitment challenges associated with the healthcare sector and NHS in particular
- oA high level of IT literacy including working knowledge of Microsoft Office systems and practice
- oWorking knowledge of the UKBA right to work rules and regulations
- oGeneral Data Protection Regulation and Freedom of Information Acts
- oEqual Opportunities and valuing diversity and how it applied to the NHS (i.e WRES, WDES)
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
