Recruitment Officer

About the job

Key information

• Fixed term contract for 10 months
• 28 days annual leave
• Opportunity to work from home

What will I be doing?

You’ll get stuck into sourcing candidates, writing job adverts, and designing recruitment campaigns for hard-to-fill roles, often using tools like LinkedIn to reach the right people.

Working closely with hiring managers, you’ll help them think differently about how they approach recruitment. Your ideas and expertise will shape the process, making it more effective and creative.

And you’ll be treated like a grown-up, with plenty of autonomy to get on with things your way, as long as you deliver the results. No micromanagement, no constant check-ins, just the space to do what you do best.

You’ll be able to work from home the majority of the time, with visits to our offices in Taunton as and when required (usually that’s no more than once per month – often less).

Done right, this role can have a real, positive impact on people’s lives. The right hire in the right place can make a huge difference to the people of Somerset – especially the most vulnerable.

What kind of experience or qualifications do I need?

You might be an agency recruiter looking for their first inhouse role, or an inhouse recruiter looking for a little more creative freedom and a way to make a bigger impact. Either way, you’ll need:

• Experience in recruitment, either in-house or agency
• Good understanding of the challenges in recruiting specialist or hard-to-fill roles
• A proven track record of creating recruitment campaigns and writing optimised job adverts
• The know-how to source candidates directly, using tools like LinkedIn Recruiter or other CV databases

What is in it for me?

We are proud to offer an environment that is supportive and rewarding, working as part of a team who are passionate about the work they do to improve the lives of people in Somerset.

We offer great training and development opportunities, with supportive management. As well as this, we have some fantastic employee benefits available:

• We promote a healthy work-life balance and offer flexible working arrangements wherever possible, including working from home.
• Generous annual leave allowance, with the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Staff discounts in gyms.
• Employee Assistance for the times you may need some support and a variety of employee wellbeing services.
• Auto enrolment onto our generous Pension Scheme and optional pension enhancement through our Additional Voluntary Contribution scheme.
• A Flexible Benefits Scheme via salary sacrifice to obtain a cycle for work and health screenings.
• My Staff Shop offering discounts in shops, online shopping, restaurants, cinema tickets, insurance benefits and more

Supporting documents and information

If you have any questions about the role, feel free to contact Carrie Goodman via email Carrie.Goodman@somerset.gov.uk or Dorian Bass-White via email at dorian.basswhite@somerset.gov.uk.

If you have everything you need, just hit the apply button. We can’t wait to hear from you.

Salary £28,598 to £32,061

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