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Recruitment Administrator

Supporting Our Teams to Recruit Exceptional People

Closing date:  Friday 31 July 

Location: Hybrid working with multi-site working

across both sites, Selly Park and Erdington

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Salary: £26,327

DBS Requirement: Basic

 

Join our People Team and help create a welcoming, professional recruitment experience for every candidate who wants to make a difference at Birmingham Hospice.

Birmingham Hospice is looking for a highly organised Recruitment Administrator to join our busy, friendly and enthusiastic People Team.

This is a varied and rewarding role where you will support recruitment activity from advert placement and interview scheduling through to onboarding, pre-employment checks and induction arrangements. You will play an important part in helping candidates feel informed, supported and welcomed from their first contact with us.

Alongside recruitment administration, you will have the opportunity to contribute to wider People Team projects, including colleague engagement, wellbeing initiatives, leadership development and improvements to our systems and processes.

What we’re looking for

  • Experience of working within an HR or People Team environment.
  • Strong administrative skills, with excellent accuracy and attention to detail.
  • Experience of using HR information systems and confidence working with Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook.
  • A good working knowledge of GDPR principles, confidentiality and handling sensitive HR data.
  • Excellent verbal communication skills and a commitment to providing a positive applicant and onboarding experience.
  • The ability to prioritise, manage a varied workload and meet deadlines.
  • Personal resilience and emotional intelligence, including the ability to work sensitively in a hospice environment.
  • A willingness to participate in training and keep knowledge up to date.

The successful candidate will provide high-quality administrative support to the People Team, delivering an excellent service to colleagues, managers, applicants and new starters.

What we offer in return

  • The opportunity to be part of a growing charity making a meaningful difference across Birmingham.
  • A competitive salary and generous holiday entitlement.
  • Wellbeing programmes, Reward Gateway retail discounts and financial tools.
  • Opportunities to develop and grow your HR career within the charity sector.
  • A positive, inclusive and supportive working environment where you will be valued and developed.

For further information or an informal chat, please email: ann.gilleran@birminghamhospice.org.uk

For more information, please read the job description.

"The team and colleagues are all very supportive and we really see the difference we can make."

SallySally, People Team Manager at Birmingham Hospice, has worked here for seven years.

“I love my job as it’s very varied – one day I can be meeting our new starters at our induction day, another day I can be supporting a wellbeing event and then on another day I can be testing our HR and Payroll system as part of an upgrade. There are lots of opportunities to get involved.

“The team and colleagues are all very supportive and we really see the difference we can make in the People Team to our colleagues, volunteers and the patients we support.”

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

The hospice is committed to developing a dynamic and diverse team, representative of the communities it serves. We ask you, therefore, to complete the Equal Opportunities monitoring form to help us in this aim.

We value each person as an individual – whether they are colleagues, patients, family members, carers or supporters, every person matters. We embrace diversity of culture, background and environment knowing it enriches our workplace and our relationships with our local communities. We are committed to building a culture of inclusion and belonging. We would love to hear from you, about what makes you uniquely you and how this opportunity will support you to succeed.

Our Values

Our values are at the heart of everything we do as we continue in our mission to enable more people from all communities to access the care of their choice at the end of life.

Kindness
Togetherness
Positivity
Openness
Respect
Innovation