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Job summary

Main area
Admin
Grade
Band 3
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
269-SFT9224
Employer
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust
Town
Salisbury
Salary
£24,625 - £25,674 per annum pro rata if part time
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
24/07/2025 23:59

Employer heading

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust logo

Recruitment Administrator

Band 3

 


Job overview

This is an exciting time to join our  Recruitment Team committed to providing a high quality recruitment service across all areas of the Trust, in support of our aim of making Salisbury Hospital the ‘best place to work’. 

We are looking for individuals with great communication skills, a passion for providing good service, and previous experience in a recruitment role, to carry out the full range of administrative tasks involved in recruitment, from advertising roles through to the onboarding of successful candidates.

Main duties of the job

  • Carrying out all the administrative aspects of recruitment for a range of vacancies for different staff groups, for allocated division/directorates across the hospital, liaising with candidates and managers to ensure that all stages of the recruitment process run efficiently and effectively. 
  • Making sure that accurate role profiles and advertisements accurately describe the roles we are recruiting for, responding to correspondence from candidates, liaising with recruiting managers and helping them to make sure selection processes run well
  • Ensuring that all of the necessary steps are completed for pre-employment checks and references, and new joiner documentation
  • Making arrangements for onboarding of new joiners, arranging their induction and ensuring that everything is in place to welcome them to the hospital
  • Maintaining recruitment systems ensuring that all vacancy information is accurate and kept up to date

Working for our organisation

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we’re driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

We are an acute Trust, rated “Good” by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service.  We think working here is pretty rewarding.  You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme. 

Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything.  With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible.  Don’t just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visiting www.experiencesalisbury.co.uk

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • GCSE in Maths and English or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
  • An NVQ or other qualification in business administration/customer service or an HR related subject

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Previous experience in recruitment and carrying out a range of recruitment tasks
  • Experience of providing services to customers
  • Experience on Trac and ESR
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of administering recruitment processes
  • Previous administrative experience within the NHS

Knowledge and Skills

Essential criteria
  • Good written and verbal communication skills
  • Able to converse confidently with employees at all levels in the organisation
  • A strong ‘customer service’ focus
  • Able to manage own time, juggle a number of tasks and prioritise work to meet deadlines
  • Proficient in the use of information systems (for applicant tracking, job board portals, HR system) and in the use of Microsoft Office
  • Able to collate data for use in reports
  • Able to be flexible to adapt to changing work demands and be a team player
Desirable criteria
  • Basic knowledge of employment law and good practice relating to recruitment

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyDisability confident leaderImproving working livesCare quality commission - GoodArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardHappy to Talk Flexible WorkingWe Work FlexiblyNational Preceptorship for Nursing Quality Mark 2024People Promise

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Sonia Light
Job title
Resourcing Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01722 429345
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