Administrator and Recruitment Assistant

We are looking for an organised, self-motivated and proactive Administrator and Recruitment Lead to support our 8 Independent Living Services across Central Bedfordshire in delivering high quality care and support to adults with a range of care needs.

The post holder will be primarily office-based within one of our independent living schemes and we are looking for candidates that live in either the Dunstable, Ampthill OR Leighton Buzzard area. Travel between our services/head office is required as part of this role and as such a driver with access to a vehicle is essential (travel expenses payable).

Admin Responsibilities

• To provide administrative and clerical support to the Head of Independent Living Services, and in turn the frontline care services, taking the lead on all aspects of the recruitment process.
• You will be responsible for setting up meetings, including booking rooms/venues, preparing agendas, and co-ordinating the production and publishing of meeting papers, briefing meeting attendees to help prepare them for meetings, minute-taking, and follow up of actions.
• You will foster and maintain positive, proactive, and professional working relationships with our internal and external stakeholders including adult social work teams, housing partners, multi-disciplinary professionals, families, clients, and staff teams.

Recruitment Responsibilities

• Liaise with team leaders and service managers to maintain effective oversight of staffing levels to identify and pre-empt recruitment needs.
• To maintain recruitment and staffing databases to ensure information is up to date and can be used effectively at all times.
• Ensure job adverts are posted/closed on agreed online platforms and ensure requests for job adverts/closures are managed promptly.
• Support service managers and team leaders with the screening and shortlisting of applicants against an agreed criteria and arrange interviews, including booking rooms where required and taking notes in interviews.
• Checking candidate application forms and associated documentation to ensure these are compliant and support a timely and efficient recruitment process.
• Conducting pre-boarding compliance checks including verifying identity documents, completing Right to Work Checks, applying for references and verifying these, and ensuring our recruitment tracking database is updated throughout the process.
• You may be required to travel between sites and support Team Leaders with recruitment processes within the eight schemes we operate across Central Bedfordshire.

Requirements:

• Previous experience working in an administrative/clerical/secretarial role.
• Experienced in managing diaries and organising meetings and taking detailed meeting minutes/transcripts.
• Experienced in communicating with a range of individuals, roles and stakeholders within a previous role.
• Experienced in collecting, inputting, reviewing, collating and reporting on data.
• Excellent IT skills including the use of MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, and proficient in the use in a range of software systems and databases.
• Ability to demonstrate initiative, organise oneself and prioritise workloads.
• Ability to confidently express own views, opinions, and suggestions to make improvements to processes and support the organisational aims.

Reasons to work for us:

Because we are a quality provider we offer:

• Flexible pay app to access early payment on wages.
• Peer to peer reward scheme for living our values
• Wellbeing and health support
• Genuine career development.
• Leading industry training packages
• Generous annual leave allowance including your birthday off as paid holiday

About Care is Central

Our vision is to be the leading care provider for Central Bedfordshire. With a team of over 90 carers, working in seven independent living schemes in Ampthill, Leighton Buzzard, Houghton Regis, Sandy, Biggleswade and Dunstable, we believe in delivering the very best possible care to those that need it and the very best opportunities to our care support workers. Enabling you to develop your career and get more out of your care job than just a pay check.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: Up to £27,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Employee discount
• Sick pay

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Dunstable: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: In person