Division C Recruitment and Retention Administrator Lead
- NHS
- Part Time
- Southampton
- 32073.00 - 39043.00 a year
Job Description
Job summary
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us.
Please see below for the detailed job description of the role.
Main duties of the job
We have an exciting opportunity for someone to support recruitment, retention and education across Division C at University Hospitals Southampton.
You will be supporting all teams across the division which includes Southampton Children's Hospital, Women and Newborn, Clinical Support, Pathology, Radiology and the Outpatient administration centre.
This role is vital in supporting the Division and Care Groups with recruitment, retention and education requirements, working with teams in helping implement recruitment and retention initiatives as well as coordinating and supporting education admin requirements. You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team across the trust working to trust policy as well as recruitment regulations ensuring an inclusive working environment.
About us
University Hospital Southampton is one of England's largest acute teaching Trusts, offering a wide range of learning and development opportunities to support your career aspirations.Located on the south coast with an international airport and direct rail links to London, Southampton offers an ideal setting to live and work, with the New Forest, South Downs and Jurassic Coast.
We believe that using technology wisely shows strong time management and commitment to innovation. However, personalising your recruitment application to highlight your unique skills and experiences is crucial. Relying too heavily on generic, AI-generated content instead of drawing from your own strengths and accomplishments may lead to your application being rejected if multiple candidates present identical or similar information. At UHS, we're committed to providing a flexible working environment where possible. Whether you are balancing family, study, or your wellbeing with your career, we want to support you so you can help our patients. At UHS, we proudly champion individuality, recognising that outstanding care is only possible with a diverse, inclusive team. We're committed to creating an anti-racist, anti-discriminatory environment where everyone feels valued, safe, and empowered to make a meaningful impact in our communities. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences to join us in building a healthcare community where everyone can belong, thrive, and contribute.
Job responsibilities
Your responsibilities - What you'll do:
Be the initial divisional point of contact for all staff on all recruitment, retention, and workforce issues, contributing to the workforce planning process implementing processes that are responsive to national and local policy drivers and sensitive to individual professional issues and responsive to clinical / local need and diversity of staff groups in the Division. To maintain current knowledge of vacancies, workforce redesign and planning for all staffing groups across the division analysing and utilising recruitment, retention and workforce redesign data alongside the Divisional Education Lead and disseminating as necessary. To support the Corporate Retention and Recruitment Agendas and Strategies within the Trust, ensuring processes are completed within the Division and in agreed timescales and are responsive to local issues and demands and are managed with professional insight into skill mix issues. To provide administrative and organisational support to the Education Lead for Division C coordinating and planning of all education initiatives and duties and ensuring Statutory and Mandatory training is completed as per Trust Policies. The post holder will support the DGM in the preparation, collation of data and documents for CQC and other regulatory bodies compliance.
What we're looking for:We are looking for someone with excellent communication skills verbal and written, you will need to be able to record, analyse and present data to care group, divisional and trust teams. You need to be educated to degree level or have significant experience in a similar role. You will need to have excellent organisational skills, prioritising work as required.This role will require you to work as part of a multidisciplinary team but also to work autonomously. This role requires you to work trust wide, being the link between central teams and across the division.You may be required to support recruitment initiatives attending recruitment events. As part of this role, you will support the annual training needs analysis programme collecting information from across the division, reporting through Governance processes and ensuring submission within the agreed timescales.
For further details / informal visits contact:Catherine Roberts, [email protected]
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Qualifications, knowledge and experience
Essential
- Degree in HR or other relevant qualification at this level e.g. CIPD level 5, or able to demonstrate equivalent experience of working in a relevant role to this level
- Experience of recruitment including attraction, shortlisting, interviewing etc and awareness of the underpinning legislation and admin to support this
Desirable
- Evidence of further development or relevant work experience related to role e.g., recruitment, resourcing, equalities, diversity, and inclusion (EDI)
- Agenda for Change job evaluation training
- Training and advising others in recruitment and related topics
- Knowledge and understanding of recruitment and retention issues in a clinical healthcare environment
Trust Values
Essential
- Patients First
- Working Together
- Always Improving
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
University Hospital Southampton NHS Trust
Address
University Hospital Southampton
Tremona Road
Southampton
SO16 6YD
United Kingdom
