Resourcing Adviser

Job summary

We are recruiting for the role of Resourcing Adviser on a Permanent and fixed term contract until October 2027) in our Resourcing team.

We're looking for an experienced and motivated Resourcing Adviser to join our national Resourcing Team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in attracting, recruiting and onboarding talented people who help us deliver our vital work with children and families across England.

We trust and empower colleagues to work in a hybrid way and will you will be required to attend a local office to you at least once a week.

Job description

Let us tell you a bit more about the role…

As a Resourcing Adviser, you will support the delivery of safe, timely and effective recruitment across a designated portfolio of operational service areas. Working closely with Resourcing Business Partners, hiring managers and HR colleagues, you will coordinate end-to-end recruitment activity, ensuring vacancies are progressed efficiently and in line with workforce priorities.

You will be a trusted point of contact for candidates and managers throughout the recruitment journey, providing expert guidance and delivering an outstanding candidate experience while maintaining the highest standards of safer recruitment and compliance.

Managing a varied and often complex workload, you'll use your organisational skills, attention to detail and customer-focused approach to ensure recruitment campaigns, vacancies and pre-employment checks are completed to a high standard and within agreed timescales.

What you'll be doing

• Coordinating end-to-end recruitment activity across a range of vacancies and service areas.
• Supporting managers with recruitment planning, interview arrangements and recruitment processes.
• Managing vacancy advertising across multiple channels, ensuring adverts align with Cafcass's employer brand.
• Building positive relationships with candidates, hiring managers, HR Business Partners and key stakeholders.
• Conducting candidate screening calls and supporting talent attraction activities.
• Coordinating all aspects of pre-employment checks, including DBS, right to work, employment references and professional registration verification.
• Maintaining accurate recruitment system records and ensuring data quality.
• Monitoring recruitment progress and identifying risks or delays, escalating where appropriate.
• Supporting high-volume and targeted recruitment campaigns.
• Contributing to continuous improvement initiatives and helping shape more efficient ways of working across the Resourcing Team.

Person specification

… and what we’re looking for.

We're looking for someone who is passionate about delivering excellent recruitment services and creating positive experiences for candidates and hiring managers alike.

• Experience of coordinating recruitment processes from vacancy approval through to onboarding.
• Strong knowledge of recruitment administration and pre-employment checking processes.
• Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines.
• Experience of working with recruitment, HR or applicant tracking systems.
• Outstanding communication and relationship-building skills.
• A customer-focused approach with the confidence to provide advice and guidance to a range of stakeholders.
• Excellent attention to detail and the ability to maintain accuracy when handling sensitive information.
• A commitment to inclusion, equality, safeguarding and safer recruitment principles.
• The ability to work independently while also contributing positively to a collaborative team environment.

You can find out more about the above before you apply by reading the job description in the ‘documents’ section.

Benefits

• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• A Local Government Pension with an employer contribution of 13%
• 28 days holiday (including three for Christmas) rising to 33 days with five years continuous service, which could include your current employment

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

If and when you are ready to apply, our application process is straightforward and quick to complete. You don’t need to complete your application in a single visit, you can start it and come back and amend your responses / update your CV, just make sure you come back before the closing date to submit.

Below we have given you an indication of a timetable we are hoping to work towards, although dates are subject to change.

Closing Date:Thursday 8 October 2026Telephone Interview:As and when applications are receivedFinal Interview/Assessment:w/c 19 October 2026

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo an enhanced (or equivalent) criminal record check.People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Medical

Successful candidates will be expected to have a medical.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see theCivil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

Apply and further information

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : Michelle Berridge
• Email : michelle.berridge@cafcass.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : HRResourcing@cafcass.gov.uk

Attachments

Job Description - Resourcing Adviser Opens in new window (docx, 155kB)