Job Title: Recruitment Partner
Location: Huntingdon
Salary: £35k – £42k Per annum DOE
Job type: Full Time/ Hybrid working
Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service (CFRS) is one of the best Fire and Rescue Services in the country. In our last inspection by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate for Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services (HMICFRS) we were noted as good, specifically around promoting the right values and culture, getting the right people with the right skills, ensuring fairness, promoting diversity, managing performance, and developing leaders.
Our vision is for a safe community where there are no preventable deaths or injuries in fires or other emergencies. To achieve this, we put people at the centre of everything we do. Without our welcoming, friendly, and supportive environment we would not be the Service we are today.
The Role:
Are you a Recruitment professional looking for something different? This is an exciting opportunity to be part of our fun, forward-thinking Fire and Rescue Service.
If you like every day being different and want to work with our dynamic front line colleagues, support teams and the community then this role would be great for you!
We will look to you to deliver and lead a customer-focused and fit-for-purpose recruitment service to the business, overseeing team workload and empowering team members to develop and achieve to their full potential.
As a ‘hands-on’ member of the team, you will take responsibility for specific recruitment campaigns and provide resilience and practical support to the team during peaks in workload, whilst working collaboratively with colleagues in the wider People team and stakeholders across the service.
About You:
You will have a clear passion for everything recruitment and retention and bring that passion with you into CFRS. The Service is a fantastic, fun and unique organisation to be part of and your drive, experience and knowledge will help us on our journey.
In addition, we will look to you to possess the following:
- Appropriate recruitment qualification, e.g., Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) minimum Level 3 qualification or demonstratable equivalent experience.
OR
- CIPD qualification at Level 5 or actively working towards, or demonstratable equivalent experience
- Experience of working in an in-house recruitment function.
- Experience of advising managers at all levels on sometimes complex and sensitive recruitment issues.
- Knowledge and understanding of current and emerging employment law and best practice and experience of giving advice and guidance on employment legislation related to recruitment, to managers at all levels.
- Experience of working on and seeing projects and initiatives through to completion, and understanding of project and change management techniques
- Ability to liaise professionally with people of all levels and across all sections of the organisation and develop constructive and credible working relationships with all employee groups, managers, and representative bodies.
If you do not fully meet the requirements but believe that you can clearly demonstrate in other ways the range of valuable skills, experience and knowledge recognised as relevant and important to this role, we would welcome hearing from you.
Why work for Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service (CFRS)?
We promote the right values and an inclusive culture by:
- ensuring fairness, promoting diversity and developing colleagues to achieve their potential
- being Disability Confident employer
- providing health and well-being support
- offering flexible, agile hybrid working
- having Inclusion ambassadors, a network and working groups for protected characteristics
Our offer:
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to Health Cash Plan
- A competitive pension scheme
- Access to Blue Light Discount at 100s of stores & events
- Access to Health Shield Perks Discounts
- Family friendly policies – including flexible working
- Great Learning & Development Opportunities
- 24 days annual leave each year plus bank holidays, increasing with long service
- Parking (site specific)
- Flexible, agile, hybrid working
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Candidates with the experience or relevant job titles of; Recruiter, Recruitment, Recruitment Officer, Recruitment Assistant, Recruitment Coordinator, Internal Recruitment, HR, HR Assistant, Recruitment specialist, Recruitment Executive, Internal Recruiter, Resourcing Administrator, Recruitment Planner, HR Officer, Recruitment Coordination Executive, Recruitment Associate, Recruitment Placement Coordinator will also be considered for this role.
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