Band 4 Senior Bank Recruitment Lead

Job description

Job responsibilities

The post holder will:

Act as the Bank lead for all Bank worker recruitment and fast track processes. Ensuring Bank recruitment is undertaken in accordance with agreed Trust and national recruitment guidelines and procedures.

Act as a point of contact for any Bank adverts and manage Bank recruitment social media accounts.

Responsible for the efficient management of all Bank recruitment including long listing and organising, supervision and support of Divisional shortlisters and interview panels.

Manage recruitment open days for Bank worker recruitment, arranging recruitment panels and checking and signing of timesheets, confirming hours worked as necessary.

Act as an expert Bank system user to ensure that new Bank workers are registered on the Bank system and hired correctly in ESR for the purposes of pay following completion of recruitment.The post holder will provide training and support to Bank Co-ordinators as appropriate to ensure that Bank workers are hired and terminated efficiently.

Provide specialist advice and information promptly regarding the most effective way to join the Trust Bank including recruitment via fast track application, advertised jobs and ad hoc specialist recruitment. Ensure that applicants and requesting managers are informed and updated on a regular basis including any information on agency fees or additional notice period that may be relevant.

Support applicants through the recruitment process including setting up of DBS risk assessments or right to work assessments with the relevant Bank manager and handling of any relevant sensitive information to ensure compliance with GDPR. This may involve delivering of contentious information which will require tact, sensitivity, empathy and negotiation skills.

The post holder will need to provide and manage sensitive information on a daily basis including safe staffing reports, Bank and agency usage reports, Divisional temporary worker spend reports and new service implementation reports to identify areas for targeted recruitment.

Deal with a range of queries from both applicants and service managers appropriately ensuring that queries are recorded and monitored.

Ensure that where appropriate new applicants receive help with additional needs including referral to Team Prevent and completion of relevant risk assessments as necessary.

Responsible for ensuring that new workers have access to systems and equipment prior to the commencement of the first shift where appropriate. This may involve setting up of new I.T. accounts, issuing of uniforms and training in how to use systems for processing of timesheets and expenses.

Liaise with the Compliance Team to ensure the completion of induction and relevant mandatory training before commencement. Where this is not possible, escalate gaps in compliance with Bank management team and liaise with services as appropriate to ensure risk assessments are completed and recorded.

Develop and maintain a positive working relationship with Divisional management teams, HR Business Partners and the Recruitment Team, working together to address issues and continually improve the Bank recruitment and retention process. This will involve working on specialist projects aimed at improving retention and recruitment of workers. This may also involve liaising with new Bank workers who have not picked up any shifts to identify the reasons for this and to discuss with service managers and HR Business Partners where barriers to work have been identified.

Identify, escalate and communicate issues and concerns about delays in recruitment. Work in partnership with the Bank management team, Recruitment and service leads to analyse issues and support the development of management solutions where appropriate.

Person Specification

QualificationTrainingEducation

Essential

• QualificationTrainingEducation

Desirable

• Able to travel independently across Trust sites

Experience

Essential

• Experience

Desirable

• Experience of working in a temporary staffing function and/ or agency environment

Other

Essential

• Other

Desirable

• Project support experience

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS FT

Address

3 Priestley Wharf

Birmingham

B7 4BN

Employer's website

https://www.bhamcommunity.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)