Salary: Band 4, £26,106 to £26,403 per annum
Location: Agile, Forth Banks and homeworking
Hours/Contract: Full Time 37 Hours (Reduced hours can be discussed) – 12 to 18 month fixed term / secondment
The role
Here at Northumbria Police, we think our region is amazing! It takes a great deal of people from different backgrounds, with diverse skills and experience to serve our force area effectively, think you have what it takes to help us make a difference? This could be the perfect time for you to join us in our People Department as a Talent Acquisition Assistant.
Our acquisition and resourcing function ensure the force benefits from the right calibre, level, and diversity of resource throughout all areas, in support of the strategic priorities. We achieve these goals through effective workforce planning, resourcing, and recruitment.
This all starts with attracting and onboarding the very best and brightest talent into our organisation. Making new employees feel welcome from the very start of their #TeamNP career is what we pride ourselves on delivering.
Our Talent Acquisition Assistants provide an engaging and streamlined service for candidates and hiring managers by administering the full end to end recruitment process, ensuring an excellent pre and onboarding experience for all new starters in the force. You will work closely with the wider team to ensure that we are providing the best service possible to candidates.
You will also be delivery the offboarding process for NP, for police staff, officers and volunteers, engaging with key stakeholders to ensure all leavers feel valued.
What you’ll do
- Administer the internal and external candidate recruitment process, through an efficient, innovative and customer focussed process.
- Be the point of contact for candidates and hiring managers throughout the recruitment process, working collaboratively with the wider acquisition team to ensure everyone is fully informed of progress at regular intervals, and answering any queries.
- Plan, organise and coordinate all pre-employment checks including medical, occupational health, vetting checks and references. Liaising with candidates and relevant stakeholders to ensure any reasonable adjustments are considered and actioned.
- Manage the day-to-day delivery of your allocated workload in line with agreed service level agreements, ensuring compliance to force policies, and providing a smooth and transparent recruitment process.
- Coordinating, preparing, and issuing conditional and final offers to candidates, as well as contracts of employment and contractual change letters for all staff within force.
What you’ll bring
- The ability to plan, prioritise and complete various projects simultaneously.
- Experience of working in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate information clearly and succinctly, both verbally and in writing.
- Experience in the use of Excel and Microsoft packages, with focus on data recording and management.
- Self-motivation, initiative and drive; the ability to demonstrate professional resilience.
We know it’s important for you to feel that you’re not only part of a great team, but part of a community. We welcome applications from suitably qualified people from all sections of the community, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.
Harnessing these differences creates a productive environment in which everyone feels valued, and their talents are fully utilised. Appointments are based on merit alone.
Just so you know
Our application form will help us understand how your work, education and life experience has prepared you for the role of a Talent Acquisition Assistant with #TeamNP. To help support your application research what makes us tick here at Northumbria, the role you’re applying for and the values and behaviours that contribute.
The recruitment process will consist of the initial application form followed by a face-to-face interview, week commencing 4th November 2024 Just so you know, you can save your application and come back to it any time prior to the closing date on the advert.
We are proud members of the Business Disability Forum, with whom we collaborate with to improve the lives of disabled employees. We are also a Disability Confident Employer, therefore if you demonstrate that you meet the minimum criteria for this role as stated in the advert, we will progress your application and offer you an interview.
If you tell us that you have a disability, we can make adjustments to support you through the recruitment process (for example we can arrange extra time for tests or provide a sign language interpreter) You can get in touch with us via careers@northumbria.police.uk for any support regarding the application process. Please provide us with plenty of notice so we can ensure your visit goes smoothly.
If your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a Recruitment Vetting (RV) form, therefore you must be a resident of the UK for a minimum period of 3 years to ensure vetting checks can be successfully performed. A job offer will be dependent upon vetting clearance and medical information.
Terms of appointment
This is a fixed term role subject to a six-month probationary period.
If you are successful in your application, you will have a six-month probation period with us where you will be unable to apply for any other post advertised internally or externally.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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About Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to
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