Job Description

Alternative Futures Group is the North West\'s largest Mental Health and Learning Disability charity.

With a strong track record over 30 years, we work and through our to provide a wide range of innovative and bespoke care services.

We have a vision to create a world where people control their lives. Here at AFG, we pride ourselves on helping the people we support to design, develop and \'own\' the support they receive by planning this with them; we support people to make informed choices and increase their own independence; and we support people to maintain their own health, wellbeing and living environment. These principles are really important to us.

As a \'values based\' employer, the people that work for us genuinely care about the people they support, and we are seeking likeminded people to join our AFG family. If you are passionate about working in Health and Social Care and have a real desire to make a positive difference to the lives of the people we support then we would love to hear from you.

At AFG we also recognise the contribution and value that our staff make. We would not be able to provide the life changing support that we do without people like you!

In return for your contribution we will support you throughout your career and we provide a wide range of employee benefits, career development and lifestyle support services to ensure that you too feel supported, fulfilled and valued from day one of your employment with us.

What does a Talent and Attraction Coordinator do?

People are at the heart of everything that we do and finding the right people is essential to our business. We are looking for someone in the Cheshire / Manchester area to be based at home but able to travel across these areas to attend job fairs, job centres and other recruitment events on a regular basis. Meeting potential applicants and being passionate about working in social care is fundamental to the success of this role. You are encouraged to develop social media content and explore new, innovative methods of reaching potential applicants.

You will be responsible for the full recruitment lifecycle for positions including Support Workers and Nurses. You will be creating new vacancies on the system, working with the hiring manager to update the advert information, monitoring new applications, making contact with candidates in a timely fashion and arranging interviews. You will also facilitate gathering recruitment paperwork and personal documentation in the most efficient way possible, ensuring that it complies with regulations.

You will need to be self-motivated, driven to succeed, highly organised and a real people person.

You will have experience in a similar recruitment position and you must be able to drive and have access to a vehicle in order to attend events across the North West region. Ideally you will have used an ATS previously and you will have excellent computer skills with an eye for detail.

You will join a team of Talent & Attraction Coordinators, in a fully supported environment to share ideas and best practice so you can make a real difference.

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Job Purpose

In line with Alternative Futures Group mission, vision and values the job holder will support in developing and delivering a safe, high quality, cost effective Talent & Attraction activities to support AFG in creating a world where people control their lives.

Key Accountabilities

• To support the Talent & Attraction Lead to deliver attraction activities, to enhance the candidate hiring journey, to promote the effective use of Recruitment systems and processes and in managing talent within the organisation.
• To work with operational \xe2\x80\x98Hiring Managers\xe2\x80\x99 to support them through the recruitment process. The \xe2\x80\x98selection\xe2\x80\x99 stages of our process are devolved to Hiring Managers, therefore the Attraction & Talent Co-ordinator will provide advice, guidance and coaching to managers at key stages of the process.
• To prepare guidance, communications and templates to support all aspects of attraction, recruitment and selection processes. The post holder should be responsive to common concerns that are raised by Hiring Managers or identified as recurring issues and provide appropriate support/guidance to resolve.
• To provide advice on fair and transparent selection when undertaking shortlisting, arranging interviews and rejecting unsuccessful candidates. Practice should be in line with agreed Policies and Procedures.
• To support the delivery of corporate recruitment / attraction initiatives such as Sector Based Work Academies, Re-Joiner Schemes, Student Placements for professional programmes of study, or positive action campaigns.
• To build and maintain relationships with hiring managers, attending team leader meetings, supporting local recruitment events, open days etc
• To remain aware of ongoing recruitment campaigns and to provide appropriate interventions to remove any challenges to the progression of a process, to support hiring managers, and to promote best practice.
• To support the Talent & Attraction Lead with the development of Resource Plans ensuring that there are adequate levels of resource available to service all customer demand in line with predefined budget and service level requirements.
• To liaise with recruitment agencies when required
• To provide reports and information as required
• To contribute to the delivery of the People & OD Strategy including active participation in projects as required.

Person Specification:

Experience & Skills:

• Previous experience in a Recruitment or Talent Management Team
• Experience of supporting Hiring Managers and Candidates through a recruitment journey
• Experience of managing / maintaining oversight of multiple recruitment or attraction campaigns concurrently
• Experience of managing the lawful and successful on-boarding process for new appointments to the Group
• Experience of using a Human Resources related IT systems, preferably with Applicant Tracking Functionality
• Experience of maintaining comprehensive records
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills for example Excel data manipulation
• Proven ability to collate and share relevant information.
• Ability to work autonomously.
• Ability to plan effectively and execute tasks to targets within demanding deadlines.
• Situational awareness \xe2\x80\x93 Understanding the implications of your advice and actions

This position is Band I as per our structure.

Alternative Futures Group