Job vacancy: Recruitment Team Leader, Sheffield Health & Social Care NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield

Job summary

Main area: Recruitment
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 5
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday - covering 9 am to 5 pm)
Job ref: 457-25-7174705

Employer: Sheffield Health & Social Care NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Centre Court
Town: Sheffield
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 Per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 19/06/2025 23:59

Recruitment Team Leader

NHS AfC: Band 5

About us

At Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust we provide a range of mental health, learning disability, substance misuse, primary care and other specialist services designed around the needs of people in our city.

We have a dedicated and skilful team of people caring in Sheffield, which you could become a part of.

Our values are at the heart of everything we do. These are: working together for our service users, respect and kindness, everyone counts, commitment to quality, improving lives.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To establish good communications and working relationships with Care and Corporate Group leaders that ensures a good understanding of their Groups’ vacancies, time to hire rates, and forward recruitment planning needs.

To recruit, train, manage and develop the members of their Team, ensuring they are competent, confident, and committed to applying the Trust’s policies and procedures to a consistently excellent standard.

To be responsible for the day-to-day operational effectiveness of the Recruitment team, ensuring that appropriate processes are in place to deliver a streamlined service from the commencement of the recruitment campaign to full pre-employment checks.

To carry out regular supervision with team members, ensuring that their workloads are organised to deliver recruitment services in accordance with agreed Key performance indicators.

To provide Recruiting managers and other relevant parties with advice, support, and guidance on all aspects of the recruitment process, including assessment and selection principles, employment legislation and NHS Guidelines.

To maintain knowledge on candidate attraction and social media options available and promote and advise recruiting managers on options available and facilitate support from the Communications team.

To upskill recruiting managers by coaching and delivery of formal training.

Person specification

Knowledge & Skills

Essential criteria

Ability to analyse, interpret and report data
Good interpersonal skills for establishing effective working relationships with Recruiting Managers
Good communications skills that ensure information provided to team members, applicants and recruiting managers is understood and effective
Proactive approach to building effective relationships.
Demonstrates experience and well- developed understanding of what good teamworking looks like
Self-driven, customer and results focussed
Ability to problem solve problems through analytical and structured thought processes
Knowledge of NHS Employers Recruitment Standards, and Employment Legislation as it relates to Recruitment

Training & Qualifications

Essential criteria

Degree or equivalent level of training and experience in relevant field such as administration/HR/employment law
Evidence of continuous professional development

Desirable criteria

Working towards CIPD accreditation

Experience

Essential criteria

Significant experience of recruitment administration in an environment that is highly process driven and has strong governance requirements
Experience of working to KPI’s, Targets and deadlines
Experience of working within an environment where high standards of customer service were required
Experience of regularly using a range of IT packages (these may include ESR, NHS Jobs, MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook etc TRAC or other ATS.)
Evidence of providing professional recruitment advice and support to managers

Desirable criteria

Experience of job evaluation
Experience of creating recruitment campaigns including through social media

We aim to be an organisation that is diverse and inclusive and to meet this aim we welcome applications from people with a wide range of life experience and whose diversity echoes the diversity of Sheffield, that of the people who use our services, and that of the people who may need to use our services but face barriers to access. Please think about your personal values and how these align with our values when you are applying. Find out more about our organisation through our website.

We are a Disability Confident employer level 2 and hope to achieve level 3 this year. We offer a guaranteed interview to disabled applicants who meet all of the essential criteria for a role. When you apply you will have the opportunity to let us know if you require adjustments to be made, please contact us if you are not sure or if you require adjustments to the application process itself.

Our six staff network groups welcome new members, these are:

The Ethnically Diverse Staff Network Group
The Disability Staff Network Group
The Lived Experience Staff Network Group
The Rainbow Staff Network Group
The Staff Carers Staff Network Group
The Women’s Staff Network Group

We know how important flexible working can be to applicants and therefore we encourage you to discuss any working arrangements as part of this process. We will always aim to accommodate requests, wherever possible.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding adults and children and as part of our safe recruitment practice the successful applicant(s) will be subject to a check with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) if it is deemed appropriate for the role. The cost of the DBS check (currently up to £48.23) must be met by the successful applicant(s).

When applying for this post you will redirected to complete your application in our preferred applicant management system, Trac. If you are successfully offered a role, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system. In addition, in submitting an application, you authorise our Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the ESR IAT process should you be appointed.

Please note, all communication regarding your application will be made via email, please ensure you check your junk/spam folders as emails are sometimes filtered there.

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) when writing job applications

If you choose to use AI or other tools to assist in writing your application, it's essential to personalise this information, particularly your supporting statement.

While AI can help streamline the writing process, these tools cannot fully grasp the context or requirements of the job you’re applying for, nor can they accurately reflect your skills, knowledge, and experience. It is crucial that you personalise your supporting statement by articulating these in your unique voice.

Relying solely on AI to write your application or supporting statement is not advocated by SHSC and could negatively impact your chances of success in the application process.

For example, AI responses…

• usually lack relevance and fail to address the key criteria outlined in the job description and person specification.

• may come across as generic and fail to distinguish you from other applicants.

• may be ambiguous or open to misinterpretation. Without careful review and editing, the supporting statement could convey messages that are unclear or misconstrued by hiring managers.

• may include qualifications, skills, knowledge or experience that you do not possess, potentially leading to misrepresentation.

Supporting Statement

The supporting statement is an opportunity for you to showcase how your qualifications, knowledge, skill and experiences align with the requirements and criteria outlined in the job description and person.

Recruiting managers score applications based on the criteria listed in the person specification. Managers will be looking for evidence of how you meet these criteria. To increase your chances of securing an interview, provide examples of how you have applied your skills and knowledge in real-life situations. Share work-related successes and challenges you’ve navigated that align with the criteria. These could be from various aspects of your life, including work, education, and personal experiences.

Consider structuring your statement with clear headings or bullet points. This approach will help both you and the recruiting manager navigate through your application more effectively.