Overview
Job Description
Salary: £36,124 – £37,938
Hours per week: 37 hours
Interview date: Week commencing Monday 9th June 2025
Recruitment – Empowering Talent
We have a unique opportunity for a Lead Recruitment Practitioner to join our HR&OD directorate to lead our Operational Recruitment Team!
As the Lead Recruitment Practitioner, you will be responsible for the day-to-day line management of the operational recruitment team within HR. This will include performance management through one-to-ones, appraisals, and the creation and application of KPIs and quality standards across the team to monitor performance. You will oversee the team’s workloads ensuring adequate cover across all duties and that resources are allocated effectively for efficient turnaround of recruitment functions. Your specialist knowledge of ORACLE or equivalent experience within a recruitment function will be essential for supporting the team through the proactive management of any issues, to ensure early resolutions are reached.
Our ideal candidate will hold or be working towards a CIPD Level 5 qualification, or have equivalent demonstrable experience, alongside a Level 3 or above management qualification or equivalent team management experience. Your ability to work collaboratively with various stakeholders, including Senior Management to source agreement for changes, deliver process improvements and constructively challenge to secure successful outcomes, will be essential. To excel, you will have relevant substantial experience working within a busy operational recruitment environment, with experience putting quality standards in place, and a strong understanding of data-informed problem solving within an operational environment.
If you have resilience and a collaborative approach to drive successful candidate outcomes and have a commitment to leading and improving public services in Wiltshire, then we would love to hear from you!
Please download and read the role description and person specification carefully before you apply as well as Our Identity .
The council is committed to creating an environment of positive working relationships where everyone feels engaged, supported and able to thrive. Our Identity is a framework which sets out how we are all expected to lead, work and act to deliver our services. We will not tolerate discrimination, bullying or harassment of any kind. Everyone is expected to promote a culture of inclusion, dignity, trust and respect which is underpinned by our vision and Our Identity framework.
For more details, contact Christine Courtenay, HR Payroll & Systems Development Manager, at Christine.courtenay@wiltshire.gov.uk .
This role may be subject to certain successful security checks; please see the role description for more information.
We are firmly committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and to the principles of inclusion and diversity in both employment and the delivery of services. Read our statement of commitment to equality and inclusion .
Disability Confident Employer
Application process
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