Job details

The Resourcing Support role is a critical part of the DHSC resourcing team which includes managing recruitment campaigns from advert through to the ID/onboarding stage, managing reserve lists, and advising vacancy holders on complex recruitment queries via the shared mailbox.

Resourcing is a fast paced, varied and demanding area of work, with a team which puts their customers at the heart of everything they do. We are dedicated to a high-performance culture, continually establishing and embedding new ways of working to ensure continuous improvement. We work in a collaborative team environment with a friendly and supportive atmosphere.

We are responsible for all DHSC recruitment activity, ensuring we are compliant with the Civil Service Commission's Recruitment Principles and other legislative requirements.

As a Resourcing Officer, your main responsibilities will be: 

• Managing recruitment campaigns from advert to ID checks, including answering queries, providing recruitment guidance, and liaising with Government Recruitment Service (GRS) and other business stakeholders.

• Managing the team mailbox, including responding to basic, novel and complex queries.

• Regularly updating vacancy tracking spreadsheets.

• Working closely with Government Recruitment Service (GRS) and HR Operations.

• Working to tight deadlines, taking ownership, and collaborating with others to respond to queries quickly.

• Ensuring information and data are handled correctly, following policies and procedures to ensure confidentiality is maintained and information is accessible.

• Providing support to a range of wider HR projects, working proactively and building strong working relationships with colleagues.

You’ll have relevant experience in:

• Excellent organisational skills and proactivity, including an ability to prioritise and manage your own workload according to business needs. You will thrive managing a varied and challenging workload and welcome autonomy to your role.
• candidate that has been worked in a government department before, knows Civil Service Recruitment and onboarding, knows the recruitment principles and has worked with Government Recruitment Services and our platform Oleeo.
• Ability to solve problems and act on your own initiative. You will be proactive, have a strong attention to detail and have a passion for customer service.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to tailor communications appropriate to the audience and circumstance.
• Confident with the use of Microsoft programmes such as Outlook, Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
• A commitment to personal development, and a willingness to contribute to work outside of their immediate responsibilities.

If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with Ciara.Lynn@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk

Disability confident

As a member of the disability confident scheme, DHSC guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

DHSC guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

If you qualify for the above, please notify us on PSRapplications@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk.

We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview.

Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.

In applying for this role you acknowledge the following, this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.