HR Assistant

Essential Employment; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 16,000 - 23,000; Full time

Job summary

Essential Employment is seeking an HR Assistant to support safeguarding recruitment in Crewe on a full-time temporary basis. The role involves processing recruitment steps, coordinating interviews, and handling pre-employment checks to ensure a smooth candidate experience.

Successful candidates will manage offers, handle agency worker transitions, and maintain records within the candidate management system while upholding safeguarding standards and equal opportunity commitments.

Qualifications

• Carry out budget checks and approval processes to support recruitment activity.
• Work collaboratively with hiring managers to create engaging and attractive job advertisements.
• Coordinate and schedule interviews, ensuring a positive candidate experience.
• Prepare and issue offers of employment to successful candidates.
• Support managers to complete all necessary pre-employment checks in line with safeguarding and safer recruitment requirements.
• Obtain and manage all pre-employment documentation and clearances for successful applicants.
• Support the transition of agency workers into permanent employment opportunities.
• Manage agency worker engagement and records through the candidate management system.
• Oversee a high-volume recruitment workload, typically managing 10 candidates simultaneously across multiple vacancies.
• Maintain accurate records and monitoring systems to track recruitment activity and pre-employment check timescales.
• Act as a key point of expertise on safeguarding and safer recruitment processes, ensuring compliance with relevant legislation, policies and procedures.

Responsibilities

• Carry out budget checks and approval processes to support recruitment activity.
• Work collaboratively with hiring managers to create engaging and attractive job advertisements.
• Coordinate and schedule interviews, ensuring a positive candidate experience.
• Prepare and issue offers of employment to successful candidates.
• Support managers to complete all necessary pre-employment checks in line with safeguarding and safer recruitment requirements.
• Obtain and manage all pre-employment documentation and clearances for successful applicants.
• Support the transition of agency workers into permanent employment opportunities.
• Manage agency worker engagement and records through the candidate management system.
• Oversee a high-volume recruitment workload, typically managing 10 candidates simultaneously across multiple vacancies.
• Maintain accurate records and monitoring systems to track recruitment activity and pre-employment check timescales.
• Act as a key point of expertise on safeguarding and safer recruitment processes, ensuring compliance with relevant legislation, policies and procedures.

Job description

HR Assistant needed in Crewe, £14.36ph

PAYE - Reference: 5304148

Providing 360 support for children's safeguarded recruitment, including (but not limited to):

• Carry out budget checks and approval processes to support recruitment activity.
• Work collaboratively with hiring managers to create engaging and attractive job advertisements.
• Coordinate and schedule interviews, ensuring a positive candidate experience.
• Prepare and issue offers of employment to successful candidates.
• Support managers to complete all necessary pre-employment checks in line with safeguarding and safer recruitment requirements.
• Obtain and manage all pre-employment documentation and clearances for successful applicants.
• Support the transition of agency workers into permanent employment opportunities.
• Manage agency worker engagement and records through the candidate management system.
• Oversee a high-volume recruitment workload, typically managing 10 candidates simultaneously across multiple vacancies.
• Maintain accurate records and monitoring systems to track recruitment activity and pre-employment check timescales.
• Act as a key point of expertise on safeguarding and safer recruitment processes, ensuring compliance with relevant legislation, policies and procedures.

This is a full time role on a temporary contract basis.

Essential Employment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. Essential Employment is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

All our roles may be subject to pre-employment checks including references so please beprepared.

Due to high volumes of CVs received we are not able to respond to all unsuccessful applications. You will always however hear from us by phone if we are able to take your CV forward to the next stage.