Job Description:

Internal Recruiter
Location: Hybrid - Milton Keynes
Contract Type: Full Time
Salary: Up to £29,250 per annum
Specific Hours: 35 hours per week

About Us

Polaris Community is one of the UK's largest children's services providers.

Within the community, we have independent fostering and adoption agencies that have been passionately improving the lives of young people for over 30 years, as well as leaving care services, education and bespoke children's services contracts. Our nurturing community works collectively to support the very best outcomes for each and every child in our care. We're ambitious for our children and young people, families and staff, and believe in their futures.

Overall Purpose and Aim

Polaris Community is looking for an Internal Recruiter to join our education recruitment team. In this role you will be responsible for identifying, sourcing and attracting the very best talent for our schools whilst leading and managing the end-to-end recruitment process. You will provide expert advice on all recruitment activity and work closely with our education senior leadership team to design and implement effective recruitment practices and strategies and ensure that all regulatory and company requirements are met. This is a hybrid working role and you will be based at our Milton Keynes office.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for ensuring all vacancies are successfully resourced with an emphasis on quality of hire, time to hire and on direct recruitment activity
• Actively identify, source and attract candidates for hard-to-fill vacancies
• Implement targeted recruitment strategies to increase application numbers where needed and identify the most effective channel of attraction
• Support organic growth by proactively sourcing candidates to support the opening of new schools
• Responsibility for implementing the recruitment strategy as created and agreed with the Chief People Officer and HR Business Partner
• Support recruitment activities, e.g. identifying and attending job fairs/career events, liaising with colleges and universities
• Build strong and effective relationships with hiring managers to understand their recruitment needs and provide guidance on recruitment best practice
• Ensure appropriate and timely communication to candidates and hiring managers at all stages of the recruitment process
• Work with recruitment agencies with the aim of establishing a preferred supplier list with favourable rates that can be utilised when required
• Having a solution-focused approach, suggesting creative solutions to any recruitment challenges, where appropriate
• Screen applications and facilitate early conversations to identify top candidates
• Coordinate and schedule interviews between hiring managers and candidates
• Focusing on delivering an exceptional candidate experience from initial contact through to onboarding, positioning Polaris Community as an employer of choice, positively promoting the employer brand at all times
• Review and update recruitment policies as required
• Help to drive organisational performance by supporting core business objectives
• Maintain strict confidentiality in the work undertaken
• Ensure recruitment processes and files sent to onboarding meet safer recruitment requirements
• Keep up to date with information regarding developments in recruitment practice, employment legislation, CIPD guidance and CPD, sharing knowledge within the team

Skills, Knowledge and Abilities

• Excellent knowledge and experience of recruitment practices and processes
• Knowledge of the recruitment marketplace, including skills, cost, supply and demand
• Ability to produce data on key recruitment metrics
• Knowledge of recruitment best practice and associated employment law
• A commercial understanding of the impact of recruitment
• Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple, varied recruitment campaigns and work to tight deadlines
• Ability to build effective relationships with both candidates and hiring managers

Experience

• Previous resourcing/recruitment experience within a fast-paced environment
• Experience of utilising a variety of sourcing methods, plans and tools
• Demonstrable experience of actively sourcing and headhunting both passive and active candidates for a variety of vacancies and skill sets
• Experience of influencing and negotiating
• Experience of interviewing prospective candidates
• Experience of working in an in-house/internal recruitment team desirable, but not essential

Benefits

• 30 days' annual leave, increasing to 35 days with length of service
• Bank Holidays
• Company Pension
• Life Assurance
• Employee Discount Scheme

The successful candidate will be required to complete an enhanced DBS check for this position.

Polaris Community is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates.