Senior HR Adviser - Recruitment

Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior HR Adviser to join our HR Resourcing Team at HM Land Registry (HMLR).

In this role, you will lead and deliver high‑quality and inclusive recruitment activity across all directorates across the organisation. Senior HR Advisers provide expert advice on attraction and selection across internal, across‑government and external recruitment campaigns, including volume and complex campaigns and the procurement of contractors.

This role is pivotal in building recruiting manager capability, shaping fair and evidence‑based recruitment approaches, and ensuring compliance with Civil Service and legislative requirements.

Job description

As a Senior HR Adviser, you will lead end‑to‑end recruitment campaigns across all grades, advising recruiting managers on effective and compliant recruitment and selection approaches that deliver value for money. You will ensure all recruitment and onboarding activity meets HMLR policies, legislative requirements and best practice, while providing a high‑quality, responsive service to candidates and stakeholders, including supporting reasonable adjustments where required.

The role also involves proactive resourcing activity, increasing our digital presence and Employee Value Proposition, managing external resourcing contracts, and using insight, data and feedback to drive continuous improvement. You will support budget planning, maintain accurate reporting and dashboards, and provide expert advice, training and guidance to stakeholders on resourcing‑related policy, processes and complex issues.

If you do not already hold a relevant professional qualification, HMLR will actively support you to achieve this as appropriate, helping you build a strong and rewarding career. You will be part of a supportive, collaborative resourcing team that takes real pride in delivering excellent customer service, driving continuous improvement, and championing inclusive recruitment practices across the organisation. This role offers broad exposure across HMLR, giving you the opportunity to work with a wide range of directorates, professions and senior stakeholders.

Person specification

To be successful in this role, you will:

• Hold a Level 3 CIPD-accredited qualification or have equivalent HR/Recruitment experience.
• Have experience or knowledge of designing effective attraction strategies for external campaigns and an understanding of targeted social media campaigns.
• Have knowledge of legislation that may impact the recruitment process and experience of advising on recruitment policies, including complex issues.
• Demonstrate a real sense of customer focus when liaising with stakeholders and the ability to influence and communicate in an engaging manner, whilst being able to challenge managers appropriately at all levels.
• Have strong organisational skills and effective planning/time management skills with the ability to prioritise in order to deliver multiple campaigns simultaneously.

HMLR believe that a blended approach to where you work that enables some time working from home, as well as in the office may give you an improved experience and has clear business benefits. We expect everyone to spend at least 60% of their working time in the office. Beyond this expectation, there is no one size fits all approach (and we can spend up to 100% working in the office if we prefer).

Due to the nature of the role, there is a minimum working requirement of 30 hours per week. You will also be required to travel occasionally to other HMLR offices and to external network group meetings.

For more information about the role, please see the attached job description.

Qualifications

Do you hold a Level 3 CIPD-accredited qualification or have equivalent HR/Recruitment experience?

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together
• Managing a Quality Service
• Delivering at Pace

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £39,849, HM Land Registry contributes £11,544 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

#WeAreHMLR

At HM Land Registry our vision is a world leading property market as part of a thriving economy and a sustainable future. We are unique in terms of the economic and social impacts of our work, our ability to make a positive difference to the lives of our customers, our sense of mission, and our great people. They are the foundation of all we have achieved and all we aspire to in the future. We want our people to feel proud to work for HM Land Registry and able to fulfil their full potential.

We have a strong and positive culture, a commitment to inclusivity, an emphasis on continuous learning and development, and flexible ways of working. We offer competitive pay and annual leave, attractive pension options and a wide range of other benefits.

• We have integrity – we value honesty, trust and doing the right thing in the right way.
• We drive innovation – we are forward-thinking, embrace change and are continually improving our processes.
• We are professional – we value and grow our knowledge and professional expertise.
• We give assurance – we guarantee our services and provide confidence to the property market.

You can find more information on our rewards package on our website.

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

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.

Please copy and paste an anonymous CV into the online application form when prompted and provide details of your qualifications and career history. The CV will be assessed against:

• Level 3 CIPD-accredited qualification or equivalent HR/Recruitment experience.

If your CV does not meet the criteria, then your personal statement may not be scored.

The personal statement section (in no more than 750 words) must be used to outline your skills and experience for the role and detail how you meet the following essential experience criteria below:

• Understanding of recruitment policies, guidance and relevant legislation, and how this knowledge has been applied when delivering or advising on recruitment practice.
• Experience of making evidence‑based decisions within a HR or recruitment context, including the ability to prioritise competing demands and deliver effective outcomes.
• Ability to influence and communicate in an engaging manner and appropriately challenge stakeholders at all levels.

In the event of a high volume of applications, we reserve the right to assess against the lead essential experience criteria listed below first:

• Understanding of recruitment policies, guidance and relevant legislation, and how this knowledge has been applied when delivering or advising on recruitment practice.

Please review your application form before clicking ‘submit’ – once you have submitted, you will not be able to amend your application. Ensure your application form is received by the closing date for receipt of applications – this is 23:55pm on the advertised date.

The sift will take place shortly after the closing date. If successful at the shortlisting stage, you will be invited to attend a blended interview including a pre-prepared presentation. Interviews will be held in person at the Nottingham Office w/c 20 April, and will assess the experience and behaviours listed in the attached job description, as well as the strengths associated with the role. We want to hear your first, unrehearsed, natural response to strength questions, and so we don’t advertise which strengths are being tested. The best way to prepare for strengths questions is to reflect on what you identify as your own personal strengths, and your preferred ways of working. Further details about the interview and presentation will be provided closer to the time.

Candidates can refer to notes within their interview, but they should be used as a prompt only.

HMLR is accredited to the Disability Confidence Scheme, which denotes organisations which have a positive attitude towards disabled people. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria at the shortlisting stage may be invited to attend an interview.

If any candidate requires the panel to consider a reasonable adjustment or there is anything else they would like the panel to take into consideration, they are asked to notify us of this at application stage where possible or during the process as soon as it becomes a requirement.

Visa Sponsorship

Please note, we will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa where a role is in a certain business critical category. This role does not meet that category, and we will not sponsor a skilled worker visa. You must ensure you have the appropriate right to work in the UK before applying.

You can find more information on how we use your personal data on our website.

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

Security

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

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

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).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.The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

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).

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : Dana Pickard
• Email : Dana.Pickard1@landregistry.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : hrresourcingteam2@landregistry.gov.uk

Further information

If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance to the Recruitment Principles and you wish to make a complaint, please email hrresourcingteam2@landregistry.gov.uk in the first instance. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from HM Land Registry then you may take your complaint to the Civil Service Commission: http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/making-complaint/

Attachments

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