Job Description

About Us

Salary:

26,403 - 26,824 per annum

Contract Type:

Permanent

Working Pattern:

Full time

Location:

County Hall, Chichester (Hybrid working available)

Are you an excellent Administrator / Customer Service professional looking to develop your career in Recruitment? Are you dynamic and enjoy working in a fast paced environment? Are you looking for a job where no two days are ever the same?

Now is a really exciting time to join us. Over the last two years, we have been on a journey to create an outstanding team, a centre of excellence for attracting, identifying, recruiting, and on-boarding talent".



In the agency contract team, we look after the placements of all Agency and Interim workers. We assist all departments at West Sussex County Council with gaps in recruitment. We are a small team that work closely together.



This opportunity provides lots of development opportunities and training and as an employer we recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive and dynamic working environment where employees can achieve their full potential, achieve a healthy work-life balance and are rewarded for the work they do. Upon joining us you will have access to a range of benefits including:


an excellent

local government pension scheme

generous holiday entitlement of between 27 and 28 days, depending on length of service (plus opportunity to buy additional leave) a range of flexible working options, depending on your job role maternity, paternity, dependency and adoption leave volunteering opportunities training and development opportunities, including coaching and mentoring a range of discounts giving our staff access to hundreds of offers; groceries, travel, cinema tickets, days out, leisure activities, high street retailers and the opportunity to save over 1,000 a year through our West Sussex Choices benefits platform (see our

Staff discounts page

if you are a business looking to offer a discount) health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders and Voluntary Health Cash Plans

For a full list this can be found at our

Rewards and Benefits page.

About The Job


The purpose of the role is to provide resourcing administration to support the Agency Contract Manager across the council, including raising temporary worker orders for directorates. management of Agency systems and ensuring satisfactory pre-employment checking processes, for example, DBS checks.



Other Duties include:


Raising and monitoring purchase orders, arranging IT equipment and access for new starters and ensuring timely payment to suppliers. Assisting with the onboarding process for Interims into WSCC, ensuring value for money and compliance with procurement process. Distributing ad-hoc recruitment requests to the agency supply chain, ensuring vacancies are filled in a timely manner.

About You


You will have excellent customer skills and demonstrable experience of managing stakeholders. You will support candidates through their onboarding journey as well as internal stakeholders to provide updates, so you will require the ability to be organised and demonstrable experience of providing regular touchpoints, collecting and following up to get key information and provide updates, support and advice.



You will also have really strong attention to detail, ensuring compliance with checking of relevant documentation and where necessary provide advise / support on the gathering or completion of relevant checks. Importantly you will also be able to bring enthusiasm and willingness to interact with people in an engaging way.



For more information on the Key Skills as well as the Qualifications and/or experience required, please refer to the attached.

The Team

Our Recruitment Team is a key part of the Human Resources and Organisational Development Directorate (HR&OD), we provide expertise in delivering resourcing activities across all our directorates which helps provide services to our 850,000+ residents.



As part of our ongoing mission to improve the service we provide all directorates we have made some changes to our structure which has resulted in the creation of this new role for Recruitment Services Manager. This new structure will enable the Recruitment team to deliver a much more efficient, customer centred, service and help us improve the candidate journey and support our resourcing activities so we can continue to support our residents.


Further Information


The reference number for this role is

CRS00981.

For an informal conversation or further information regarding the role, for the role please contact Louiser Chapman (Contracts Manager) at

louiser.chapman@westsussex.gov.uk

To apply, upload your CV and a cover letter outlining your relevant experience and skills as well as your motivations for applying. Please ensure you have saved the job description attached to the main advert on our website as, once the job has closed, you may not have the opportunity to download again.



West Sussex County Council is an equal opportunities employer committed to promoting an environment that is inclusive and free from all forms of unlawful or unfair discrimination and values the diversity of its people. We actively welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and take every possible step to ensure that no individual will be disadvantaged.



For information regarding your eligibility to apply for this role under our Disability or Veteran's Guaranteed Interview Scheme, please visit our

website

.



LOCATION

Chichester area

CONTRACT TYPE

Permanent

JOB TYPE

HR and Learning & Development

CLOSING DATE

07 October 2025