Summary

Please note this role will close on the 29th March 2023 at 9:00am

Are you looking to get back into work after a career break? Or perhaps you feel it is time to take on a fresh new challenge? Whatever your reasons if you are friendly, socialable, consider yourself social media savvy, and have an obvious eye for detail - this could be the perfect opportunity.

LIVE WORK CREATE

We have on offer a fixed term contract* for a part-time (up to 22 hours) Recruitment Assistant. You would be joining a well-established, expanding team situated in Trowbridge however, the successful candidate will have the flexibility of working in the office and/or at home on the proviso that they work at least 1 day a week in the office.

Equipment i.e., laptop, mouse, keyboard (where needed), and full training are provided.

About the role

The Recruitment Team sits within HR&OD and is responsible for a breadth of activities that relate to the way the council attracts recruits, develops, and retains its employees with the aim of creating a flexible, highly-skilled, and capable workforce.

This opportunity focuses on but is not exclusive to our traded services which include the accurate and timely processing of job advertising requests for schools and third parties, the placement and promotion of roles on several job boards and social media platforms, and a complete 360 recruitment process for Head Teacher vacancies and third-party organisations.

Communicating with customers via email and phone (microsoft teams) you may occasionally be expected to attend local networking and/or career events to showcase our traded offer.

About you

You will already actively use or have no objections to using our Wilts Promoting Partners Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Linkedin pages to promote adverts and relevant engaging content for our traded customers.

With excellent written / language and numerical skills and will be able to communicate effectively at all levels whilst full training will be given for this role, you will need to be quick to adapt and can organise your own time and work to tight deadlines.

Ideally, you will have some past admin experience but if you are proficient in Microsoft office (word, excel, outlook, etc) and have a genuine willingness to learn the rest can be taught.

Staff Benefits

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  We are a friendly and fun team who go out of our way to encourage each other. This role will be working closely alongside two other recruitment assistants doing the same tasks – so support is at hand all the time.
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  Within our team we operate flexitime which means where your workload allows, you can alter your start and finish times according to what hours you have previously worked i.e., if you ended up working over your contracted 37 hours one week, in another week you could finish earlier or start later a couple of days – basically you do not lose hours worked above your contracted hours.
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  There will be plenty of opportunities to take part in development/training opportunities that will further expand your knowledge of working for Wiltshire Council and the Recruitment Team.
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  Plenty of free parking for those office days and desks can be booked in advance, meaning you don't have to rush in.
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  You will receive 26 days (pro-rata) paid holiday, all weekends and bank holidays off and you can from day one take advantage of our staff reward scheme which include many local and national discounts.