Recruitment Assistant Manager

Are you passionate about recruitment? Are you ready for next challenge as a leader in a dynamic recruitment team?

We have two exciting opportunities within the Recruitment Team at Mencap!

We are recruiting 2 Recruitment Assistant Managers.

As a Recruitment Assistant Manager, you will play a pivotal role in driving the team to meet organisational recruitment objectives. You will lead a dedicated delivery team that will focus their support on either:

• Personal Support – This role will support the delivery of recruitment to our Personal Support teams. This role will be responsible for the recruitment of support workers and managers within this directorate. This role focuses primarily on England services but will involve support for Northern Ireland and Wales.
• Enabling and Education – This role will support our enabling teams, with their recruitment and our education services. This recruitment varies by different support functions and covers Northern Ireland and Wales.

Your leadership will be crucial in meeting team objectives around vacancy rates and agency spend. In your role, you will be enhancing the recruitment processes for your designated area of the recruitment team.

Key Responsibilities will include:

• Lead Recruitment Campaigns: Manage some recruitment and support your direct reports in their recruitment campaigns for your designated area (Personal Support Services or Enabling and Education Services).
• Support Organisational Objectives: Collectively with the Recruitment manager, design and deliver a clear recruitment pathway for your area of the business.
• Team Coaching: Provide coaching and support to your team and Hiring Managers to enhance their skills and knowledge around recruitment at Mencap.
• Campaign Review: Regularly review recruitment campaigns and advertising revenues to ensure our return on investment.
• Line Management: Directly manage your team, setting clear goals and conducting performance reviews to help them achieve their objectives.
• Operational Meetings: Hold regular meetings to review processes and recruitment practices for your designated area.
• Belonging: Support the team in utilising diverse recruitment methods to attract the right candidates for the roles and ensure a fair and clear recruitment process.
• Data-Driven Innovation: Use data insights to drive innovation and improve recruitment strategies.

The experience you will bring:

• You will have a proven track record of managing successful recruitment campaigns (Identifying the vacancy, designing a suitable advertising strategy, screening and shortlisting, interview planning, and onboarding).
• You will be able to demonstrate Mencap values in your approach to recruitment.
• You will demonstrate knowledge about using an ATS and be able to innovate systems to enhance the recruitment process for all stakeholders.

This role is your chance to make a real difference to the lives of people with a learning disability as part of our recruitment team. If this role sounds like your next challenge, then we want to hear from you!

This role will close Monday 14th April. We do reserve the right to close this advert early if we experience a high volume of applications; therefore, we encourage you to submit your applications at the earliest opportunity.

Interviews will be held on 22nd April at our Peterborough Support Business Centre.

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Here at Mencap, we offer an impressive range of benefits designed to support and reward our employees to ensure that our teams feel valued and appreciated.

Our benefits package offers 32 days of paid holiday (including bank holidays, pro rata), along with a range of perks such as discounts at leading high-street retailers, access to health cash plans, interest-free loans, and many more exciting offerings.

For more details on what we have to offer, please see the attached document outlining all the fantastic benefits available to you as a member of our team!

About Mencap

Our vision is for the UK to be the best place in the world for people with a learning disability to live happy and healthy lives.

We're here to support people with a learning disability, their families, and their carers. We fight for a kinder, fairer, and more inclusive society for people with a learning disability to live in.

At Mencap, everyone works with people with a learning disability either providing support or advice, or alongside one another as colleagues.

Belonging at Mencap is for everyone, every day, everywhere.

· Everyone is expected to treat people well and make Mencap an inclusive organisation.

· Every day we grow and learn. It’s okay to make mistakes, but we learn from them and make changes.

· Everywhere people will feel respected, valued, and safe to be themselves.

We have Belonging network groups that meet online and are open to all colleagues. The groups include people who identify as Black and Asian, LGBTQIA+, disabled or with a long-term health condition, women, parents and carers, and their allies.

We want to encourage everyone to apply to work at Mencap, and we offer a variety of different contract types and working patterns. We’re not looking for specific experience. It is your personality and values that will make you a great colleague. We will train and develop you to succeed in the role you’re applying for.