We Are St Helens Borough Council

St Helens is passionate and ambitious for the communities we support. We provide a wide range of local authority services to the residents, businesses, schools, and visitors to the borough. We can only do this because of our highly valued, highly skilled workforce. The Council is currently going through a transformational programme and digital modernisation, and we are welcoming new employees to join us on that journey.

What We Are Looking For

Our People Management Team have a pivotal role at the council providing a frontline recruitment service to our internal customers. This is a people management position with core responsibilities to provide an efficient and effective recruitment and on-boarding experience to our internal customers and new employees.

We require an individual with recruitment experience either internal or agency who has experience of recruitment partnering and good understanding of the recruitment cycle and on-boarding in a complex and/or busy environment. Experience of working with recruitment /onboarding frameworks, SLA’s (Service Level Agreements) and internal or external recruitment KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) is an advantage.

We are interested in applicants both from a HR/People Management background with recruitment experience or applicants from a recruitment background seeking a move into HR.

The People Management Advisor post will have some supervisory oversight for the Recruitment Officer in your business area so being able to communicate and coordinate activity, support, motivate and plan with others in order to provide an efficient and timely service is a must!

You will be a good communicator, have a positive outlook and recognises the importance of providing excellent customer service internally & externally. You will have s a proactive, solution focused approach to tasks and be able to organise workload in order to prioritise well. You will need to be organised in this role, accurate and have good attention to detail. Experience of working in a change environment is an advantage.

What We Offer

The position is a hybrid-based role and will require you to be based at our offices in St Helens for a minimum 2 days per week out of 5 days with the remaining as home working days. As a front line service, it is important that our team are based in the office and so this is a requirement of the role. Free parking is available.

Employees with us receive a wide range of benefits including well-being in work, financial benefits, generous pensions, ways of working, generous holiday allowance and learning and development support.

If you would like to discuss the role or would prefer to submit your CV rather than complete an application in the first instance we would welcome you to submit your details by emailing recruitment@sthelens.gov.uk for the attention of Diana.

Equality & Diversity

St Helens Council respects and values the individuality that every employee brings. We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds, who share our values, our commitment to inclusion, and who will help us on our journey to transform our organisation. Further information about Equality & Diversity at St Helens Council can be found here https://www.sthelens.gov.uk/equality

St Helens Council is a Disability Confident Employer. Disability Confident Employers lead the way in helping to take action that changes attitudes, behaviours, and cultures for the better.

NOLAN Principles of Conduct in Public Life.
All Council employees are required to abide by the ethical standards embodied by the 7 Nolan Principles: Selflessness, Integrity, Objectivity, Accountability, Openness, Honesty, and Leadership.