Screening Executive

02 Reed Specialist Recruitment Ltd; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 22,000 - 27,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Retail savings through Reward Hub

Annual high achiever awards

Holiday with peer‑to‑peer recognition

Paid sabbaticals and long service

Wellbeing centre and wellbeing events

Charity volunteering day (Reed)

Global giving and Foundation support

Job summary

Reed is seeking a Screening Executive in Manchester for a hybrid role requiring 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday. The role focuses on pre-screening candidates and performing checks to ensure packs meet quality standards for assignments with clients.

Strong admin, customer service and high attention to detail are essential. The role is based at New York Street, offering a blend of in-office and home-working as part of a rotating schedule.

Qualifications

• Strong administrative skills and great attention to detail.
• Excellent customer service skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and Word.

Responsibilities

• Ensure that information is correct and present for a pack to enter into screening stage.
• Complete industry specific checks such as credit checks, qualification verifications, identity checks.
• Ensure documentation is present and correct to pass quality checks.
• Verify work history details, identify gaps, and verify business legitimacy; chase references.
• Provide front line assistance in administrative tasks to support candidate packs through Reed Screening via telephony and email.

Skills

Administrative skills

Customer service

Attention to detail

Excel

Word

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

Job description

Screening Executive

Pay Range £24,875 per annum

Location – New York Street – Manchester (this is a hybrid role, you will do 1 week in the office, 1 week from home and rotate)

Shift: Full time, Monday – Friday (37.5 hours)

Job Description: We’re looking for a Screening Executive to join our day shift, with strong administrative skills, great customer service skills and great attention to detail. The purpose of this role is to successfully pre‑screen candidates going into assignments placed with our clients.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure that information is correct and present for a pack to enter into screening stage
• Complete industry specific checks i.e. credit checks, qualification verifications, identity checks
• Ensure documentation is present and correct to pass quality checks
• To check detailed information such as work history to ensure gaps are identified and explained and verifying businesses legitimacy and chasing up reference requests
• Provide front line assistance in all administrative tasks to ensure the smooth progression of candidate pack through Reed Screening, including telephony and email communication with both the client and candidate
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel and Word, quick to pick up new systems and process and with high levels of attention to detail
• You will ensure that all of the administration and data management tasks are completed efficiently, to ensure that candidates pre‑screening packs are completed to the highest standard

What kind of people do we look for? Our purpose at Reed is improving lives through work and we want everyone joining the family to feel part of that. Therefore, want people who are motivated to deliver the best service to our clients, customers and co‑Members and to help the world Love Mondays.

Benefits / Perks

• Retail savings through Reward Hub, save £100s a year
• Annual high achiever awards held at prestigious venues
• Make memories with the people you care most about by winning a holiday of a lifetime through our peer‑to‑peer recognition scheme
• Paid sabbaticals and long service awards and the ability to buy more holiday
• Dedicated wellbeing centre and health and wellbeing calendar, including everything from financial wellbeing to mindfulness
• Social impact strategy – 18% of Reed owned by the Reed Foundation – meaning you work one day a week for charity
• We give globally and have invested over £36m to help alleviate poverty and support Women’s rights worldwide

Reed is an equal opportunities employer.

We aim to ensure that no candidate or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity.

We are a Mindful Employer and offer a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria.

As a proud signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant, we welcome applications from ex‑services personnel, reservists and cadets and offer a guaranteed interview for applicants who meet the minimum criteria.

Reed is the most recognised recruitment brand in the UK, with a rich history and reputation for improving lives through work, for over 60 years. Delivering recruitment solutions with many household brands throughout the UK and globally, we find new jobs and careers for people from many different backgrounds across multiple business sectors. We look for people who enjoy an inclusive and collaborative environment, who strive for performance and celebrate team success, in a rewarding career.

We’re never afraid to ask, “What’s next?” Inspiration comes from knowing the work you do really matters and, as trailblazers in our field, the value of what we do every day is obvious. We are a family business with a rich history and a purpose of improving lives through work, for people and organisations worldwide. Our inclusive and collaborative approach, combined with an unwavering belief in our long‑standing core values, means that we genuinely trust and work hard for each other. We have built a dynamic culture where individual achievement is celebrated and succeeding as a team is revered. A supportive environment, where careers are developed and futures are forged. Feel what it’s like to truly belong.

Our Story

In the early 1960s, Reed pioneered specialist recruitment in the UK. Seven decades on, we have become the world’s largest family‑run recruitment business, with offices spanning across the UK, Europe, USA, the Middle East and East Asia. With access to the UK’s largest candidate database and expertise across 20 specialist sectors, we are committed to ensuring that people are at the heart of everything we do to ensure we fulfil our purpose: improving lives through work.