NHS Business Services Authority Hiring for Talent Acquisition Advisor Job at Newcastle upon Tyne, England Full Time

The Talent Acquisition team supports the organisation in attracting the best talent to the NHS Business Services Authority, enables our existing colleagues to progress their careers, and helps build and influence our employer brand.

You will support the Talent Acquisition Manager in providing solutions that allow our organisation to attract, develop and retain talented individuals.

Collaboration is key and as a forward-thinking, pro-active individual, you will use your experience in talent acquisition to work with the People team and wider business to implement initiatives that are effective, future focused and take a whole system approach. You will play a key role in developing our attraction agenda, employer brand, and our Employee Value Proposition (EVP).

You will support the development of talent acquisition initiatives, including an early careers approach, alternative pathways into work, internal career development pathways and the continual development of our existing apprentice scheme. This is a great opportunity for the post holder to help build and influence our employer brand, enabling us to be an employer of choice and a great place to work.

What will you do?

• Work collaboratively with business leaders and key members of the People team to understand the business talent acquisition needs and deliver proactive solutions and opportunities
• Support the Talent Acquisition Manager, taking ownership of key elements within the end-to-end recruitment and attraction agenda for the NHSBSA. This will include developing innovative resourcing strategies and career pathways, embedding these within the business, with continual review and benefit realisation
• Support and lead the development of career pathways both internally and externally, including apprenticeships, graduate opportunities, and other early careers pathways
• Support the development of the NHSBSA’s new external website from a talent acquisition perspective, ensuring it promotes our offering and our employer brand and allows us to attract talented individuals to our organisation
• In conjunction with our Diversity and Inclusion team, support the Talent Acquisition Manager to develop our pathways into work for the NHSBSA, ensuring these are inclusive and take into account our current and future workforce planning requirements
• Build active internal and external networks/relationships/partnerships within the NHS and wider organisations, to share working practices and build innovative ideas, enabling the Talent Acquisition team to be more effective

Working for the NHSBSA

We understand times are changing, and we are changing with them! We’re working on a digital transformation that can support our users, colleagues and business to take us into the future. An innovative mindset and our focus on a healthy personal and professional balance is what makes the NHSBSA a fantastic place to work.

When you work with us you can take advantage of our renowned pension scheme and generous annual leave allocation. We also have a range of benefits such as our Car Lease scheme, Travel Season Ticket Loans and access to fantastic high street and online discounts.

We know it’s important for you to feel that you’re not only part of a great team, but part of a community. We strive to ensure that colleagues feel trusted, valued, and empowered. We have a range of colleague networks to get involved in, including Wellbeing and Inclusion, Environment and Armed Forces. Our Lived Experience networks cover BAME, Disability, LGBTQ+ and Women.

We are passionate about supporting our colleagues and nurturing and developing talent. When you work with us we want you to grow, and we offer a range of opportunities such as apprenticeships, career pathways and job shadowing.

Our purpose is to be a catalyst for better health and our vision is to be delivery partner of choice for the NHS. Help us fulfil it, what are you waiting for?

We are committed to being a flexible employer and are currently enabling flexible working opportunities for our people, including remote working. The office base for this role will be Newcastle upon Tyne and you may be asked to attend the office base for work or meetings from time to time as required.

The provisional interview date for this role is 17 December 2021 but may be subject to change. Interviews will take place via Microsoft Teams.