HR Recruitment Officer

Critical Project Resourcing Ltd; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A local authority in South West London is seeking a HR Recruitment Associate to support their recruitment team. The role involves managing pre-employment checks, maintaining HR systems, and ensuring compliance in recruitment processes. Candidates should have recruitment experience, strong organisational skills, and attention to detail. This position offers a hybrid working model, requiring office attendance at least once a week.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a recruitment or HR team, preferably in the public sector.
• Experience with pre-employment checks and HR/payroll systems is desirable.
• Strong ability to manage competing priorities and meet deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Manage pre-employment checks for multiple new starters.
• Ensure accuracy in employment contracts and job advertisements.
• Respond to recruitment-related queries from hiring managers and candidates.

Skills

Recruitment experience

Communication skills

Organisational skills

Attention to detail

Education

CIPD qualification

Tools

iTrent

Oleeo

Job description

HR Recruitment Associate – Surrey / South West London – £23.56 per hour (Umbrella)

A Local Authority in South West London/Surrey is seeking an Interim HR Recruitment Associate to join their busy recruitment team. This role plays a key part in supporting end-to-end recruitment processes, ensuring compliance, accuracy, and excellent candidate and manager experience.

Responsibilities

• Manage pre-employment checks for multiple new starters simultaneously in a high-volume recruitment environment.
• Ensure accuracy and attention to detail when producing employment contracts, job advertisements, and other HR administration.
• Input and maintain accurate data within HR and payroll systems (iTrent desirable).
• Respond promptly to a high volume of recruitment-related queries from hiring managers and candidates.
• Create engaging recruitment campaign content for platforms such as LinkedIn and other digital media.
• Support continuous improvement in recruitment processes and candidate experience.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Proven experience working within a busy recruitment or HR team, ideally within the public sector.
• Experience completing pre-employment checks and using HR/payroll systems (Oleeo and iTrent experience desirable).
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities and deadlines.
• Excellent communication skills and a customer-focused approach.
• High attention to detail and accuracy in all administrative tasks.

Qualifications

• CIPD qualification – desirable.
• Strong understanding of recruitment legislation, procedures, and best practice.

Working Arrangements

This is a hybrid role based in Kingston and Sutton Council Offices. The successful candidate must be prepared to attend the office at least one day per week, with additional days expected during the initial induction and training period.