Recruitment Adviser

Be Applied Ltd; Swindon; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 39,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work from home option

Wellness programs

Employee Assistance Programme

Additional parental leave

Enhanced maternity and paternity leave

Paid emergency leave

Sabbatical Opportunities

Mentoring/coaching

Payroll giving

Salary sacrifice

Team social events

Team lunches

Extracurricular clubs

Cycle to work scheme

Job summary

Historic England is seeking a Recruitment Adviser in Swindon on a full-time, 9-month fixed-term contract. The role offers hybrid working between the office and home, with a salary of £35,000 per year. The package includes a generous pension, 28 days holiday, and staff benefits.

You will lead experienced hire recruitment across HE, provide evidence-led advice to managers, and help on onboarding, while supporting early careers recruitment.

Qualifications

• Experience in a busy internal recruitment function at adviser level.
• Recent responsibility for experienced hire recruitment from sourcing to onboarding.
• Experience using social media and recruitment partners.
• Experience working with Applicant Tracking Systems.
• Ability to coordinate and manage deadlines and conflicting requirements.
• Ability to provide evidence-led advice to hiring managers.

Responsibilities

• Lead experienced hire recruitment across Historic England.
• Provide evidence-led creative advice to support recruiting managers.
• Lead BAU recruitment activity and ensure brand-aligned processes.
• Support early careers recruitment and onboarding.

Skills

Internal recruitment experience

Experienced hire recruitment

Social media recruitment

Applicant Tracking Systems

Deadline management

Tools

Applied recruitment platform

Job description

Employment Type Full time 9 Month Fixed-Term Contract

Location Hybrid ·Swindon, UK Inclusive with hybrid working where you are based between the office and home

Team Corporate Services - Human Resources

Seniority Mid-level

Perks and benefits

Work from home option

Wellness programs

Employee Assistance Programme

Additional parental leave

Enhanced maternity and paternity leave

Paid emergency leave

Sabbatical Opportunities

Mentoring/coaching

Payroll giving

Salary sacrifice

Team social events

Team lunches

Extracurricular clubs

Cycle to work scheme

Candidate happiness

8.01 (12533)

Job Description

Summary

Historic England is the public organisation that brings new life to heritage to build a better future for every place and everyone.

Historic England has a fantastic opportunity for you to join us as our Recruitment Adviser.

This is a full time, 9 month fixed term position and the salary is £35,000 per annum.

The location of this role is Swindon, inclusive with hybrid working.

We offer a wide benefits package including a competitive defined benefit pension scheme to which we make 28.97% employer contributions, a generous 28 days holiday, corporate discounts, free entry into English Heritage sites across the country and development opportunities to ensure you achieve your goals.

What you will be doing

As Recruitment Adviser, you will deliver ‘experienced hire’ recruitment across the whole of Historic England (HE), taking the lead in providing evidence-led creative advice and solutions to support recruiting managers to effectively market vacancies and assess candidates, whilst ensuring the candidate experience is positive and in line with our brand.

Reporting to the Early Careers and Recruitment Manager, you will take a lead role on our strategic and routine BAU (business as usual) recruitment activity, providing direct advice and operational support. You will find creative solutions to recruitment challenges and influence decisions through a developed understanding of the organisation and our objectives. Developing and maintaining strong working relationships, enabling us to achieve our corporate objectives will also be a key element of the role.

Whilst the focus of this role is on experienced hires, you will also support our work on early careers recruitment and onboarding.

Who we are looking for

Previous experience of working within a busy internal recruitment function at adviser level

Recent responsibility for experienced hire recruitment from sourcing to onboarding

Experience of working with social media and recruitment partners either creating content and/or analysing data

Experience working with Applicant Tracking Systems

Ability to coordinate and manage various deadlines and conflicting requirements

Please note your application will be scored and assessed against the above criteria.

Historic England is a Disability Confident Leader and normally offers guaranteed interviews to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role, where it is practical and appropriate to do so. We want all candidates to shine in the recruitment process, so please tell us what we can do to help you show us your very best self. For more information, please visit our Everyone is Welcome page , or contact us at [e-mail] if you have any recruitment queries.

We are an equal opportunity employer which values diversity and inclusion. If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we would be happy to discuss reasonable adjustments to the job with you. Having won the Gold Award from MIND for workplace wellbeing in seven consecutive years, we also recognise the importance of a healthy work-life balance.

We are an inclusive employer and believe that flexible working options are for everyone. We want to make sure our working arrangements don’t prevent anyone from joining us because of their personal circumstances. We also want to provide you with the best balance in your home and work life that we can.

We are open to considering options including job sharing, part-time working, compressed hours working and different working locations, including hybrid working. Please visit our jobs pages or contact us to find out more.

Why work for Historic England

We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity for everyone. Diversity helps us to perform better and attract more people to support our work. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates and candidates with disabilities as they are underrepresented within Historic England at this level.

Historic England wants all of our candidates to shine in the recruitment process. Please tell us what we can do to make sure you can show us your very best self. You can contact us by email at [e-mail] if you have any recruitment queries.

At Historic England we use a hiring system called Applied. Applied is a behavioural science-backed recruitment platform that reduces bias, improves quality of hire and increases diversity. We do not use CV application for the majority of our hiring processes. You will answer a selection of questions that allow our hiring teams to test your skills and suitability for the role.

At Historic England, we value the expertise and individuality each candidate brings and want to hear about this in your own words. If you require the use or AI tools or other resources to support your application, we ask that all information is factually accurate, original, and reflects your own experience. To best represent yourself, we encourage you to write in your own words and use AI-generated content only as inspiration—not as direct input.

Provisional interview dates: w/c 9th or 16th November 2026

Historic England only accepts applications through our authorised recruitment platform, Applied. We will never ask applicants to pay any fee or provide payment details during the recruitment process.