Recruitment & Cover Coordinator

Job Description

We are currently offering a fantastic opportunityfor a talented recruitment / personnel professional to join the academies as our Recruitment & Cover Co-ordinator.

Salary Range: Band 5 £32,711 - £38,860. (Actual starting salary £32,711with annual performance based increments)

Working weeks: 52 weeks
Working Hours: 37 hours per week (07:00 - 15:00 Mon-Thurs and 07:00 - 14:30 Fri).

Supporting the Trust in its strategic ambitions, the Recruitment & Cover Coordinator will work closely with Senior Leaders, providing an efficient end-to-end recruitment and cover process, ensuring best practice in accordance with safer recruitment and employment law.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the internal and external recruitment for staffing in all roles including Premises, Support, Teaching, Middle Leaders and Senior Leaders for the trust.
• Oversee and coordinate the end-to-end recruitment, including advertising, screening, scheduling, referencing and interview components to ensure a seamless process from initial contact to offer of employment.
• Develop a sustainable recruiting strategy based on operational goals and needs.
• Use multi-channel approach to recruit and build talent networks to find active and passive candidates, posting job adverts on traditional platforms as well as social media and attendance to career fairs.
• Equality and diversity monitoring to promote a consistent and effective implementation of the Academies Equal Opportunities and Diversity policy and procedures.
• Create and review job adverts, job descriptions, interview questions and assessments.
• Scheduling and attending interviews as Safer Recruitment trained panel member.
• Create new starter folders, ensuring relevant information is recorded in preparation for transfer to HR department and start candidates on-boarding process.
• Create and implement first day induction for all new employees in collaboration with key stakeholders.
• Be responsible for arranging cover for staff absence and its associated administration, ensuring efficient outcomes. Building relationships with supply agencies, ensuring compliance and monitoring the quality of candidates through feedback.
• The appointed Recruitment & Cover Coordinator will demonstrate experience in a similar role within a recruitment function and hold an appropriate professional qualification such asCIPD Level 3 equivalent or working towards this/or professional qualification.

We are two aspirational and ambitious Academies based in Essex, just 35 minutes from London. The Lower Academy specialises in the teaching of our students aged 11-14 whilst the Upper Academy specialises in our 14-19 year cohorts. The Academies are approximately 1 mile apart.

To apply, please download and complete ourapplication form and return it to our Recruitment Coordinator, Dani Silk-recruitment@basildonacademies.org.uk

Closing Date: Midday, Monday 30th September2024

Position Available: ASAP / Start Date Negotiable

We reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications or are able to fill the position faster than originally anticipated.

Tours of the Academies will be available for shortlisted candidates.

Information about the School

The Basildon Academies is focused upon developing the whole child; our curriculum has been developed to enable our students to develop their knowledge, understanding and skills so that they will become lifelong learners. This includes opportunities for linguistic, mathematical, scientific, technical, human, social, physical and artistic learning so that students make progress in a wide range of subjects.

We set high expectations of all our students and this, in turn, ensures we create a positive climate for learning in which every student can reach their full potential. Our Academy is a calm, orderly and purposeful environment where students enjoy their learning, make good progress and feel safe.

Our Sixth Form is a major part of the academy with the structure modelling itself on developing independent learning skills like those seen in universities which allows students to continue their studies in their specialist subject areas. Students are very much encouraged to become mature adults being engaged in many aspects of the life of the academy which further develops those much needed skills to go on into university or the world of work.