Welcome from our Chief Executive

Our organisation is expanding and we're looking for people with the right values, skills and/or potential to join us. We need people with energy, expertise, enthusiasm to help us provide the very best possible specialist NHS mental health and learning disability care. This involves helping us achieve our strategy to improve the quality of life for the communities we serve through People, Prevention and Partnerships.

So what can we offer you in return?

We're an organisation which puts people first. We'll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. We'll help you learn, acquire new skills and gain further experience to support your career development. And we'll provide the opportunity for you to bring your fresh ideas to work about how we can do things differently and continue improving.

You will also be joining a health and care system committed to working together to do the best we can for the communities we serve. Above all, at Sussex Partnership you'll have the chance to make a difference to the lives of the patients, carers and families across our communities.

If you like the sound of that, then come and join our team.

Job overview

As a Trust we are embarking on a number of large-scale service transformations and a period of sustained growth in our workforce. As the needs of the communities we provide care to changes and grows, we need to grow our workforce to reflect this and continue to provide excellent care. Central to this growth is our Workforce Supply (Recruitment) team.

We are seeking to appoint an Inclusive Recruitment Advisor within our Talent Attraction & Acquisition Team to help develop our recruitment and selection practices, reaching out to all our community, attracting candidates from all parts of the region and ensuring our recruitment processes are based on best inclusive practice to promote diversity in our workforce.

To protect the health and safety of our staff/workers, patients, and those attending our sites, we encourage our workforce to get fully vaccinated against COVID

Main duties of the job

When you join us, you will take a lead role in reviewing our current practice and data. Working with the Talent Attraction & Acquisition Manager to implement improvement strategies based on staff feedback, evidence-based research and the best inclusive practices. The team are also responsible for the employer brand and employer voice and your role will be pivotal in working with our staff networks to ensure this aligns with our vision for a diverse workforce.

Working for our organisation

Working for your organisation

The Trust:

We provide mental health and learning disability care for children, young people and adults across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire.

Support Services:

Working in support services at Sussex Partnership gives an extreme level of job satisfaction, knowing that the work we do has a direct impact on the levels of care we provide to our service users. We give our clinical teams the capacity and tools they need to focus on providing excellent care.

What you can expect:

As a mental health trust, we place a huge focus on the wellbeing of our staff and ensure our reward packages reflect the important work you do.

You can expect to receive:

• Access to numerous wellbeing and support programmes
• Excellent supervision programmes, with ongoing opportunities for training and development
• Access to a host of discount schemes (inc. gyms, shopping, restaurants and cars)
• Superb NHS Pension
• Generous holiday entitlement (starts at 27 days + 8 bank holidays)
• And much more!...

We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/ life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, home-working, part time hours, flexible start/ finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities
In order to be a successful in this role you will:

• Have a solid understanding of recruitment processes, selection methods and resourcing best practice
• Be experienced in engaging stakeholders, including senior individuals within a large organisation
• Have a demonstrable understanding of the equality and diversity agenda
• Be comfortable working with data and running reports

It would also be advantageous if you have:

• Experience working within a large complex organisation
• An understanding of the workforce challenges within the NHS

See attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details.

We work in a hybrid model, to include both home-working and working from our office and you will be expected to work in this way. Our office is currently based in Aldrington, Hove, however we will be moving to Worthing in 2022. There is also some expectation to travel to sites across Sussex and Hampshire when required, such as to attend recruitment events.

Person specification

QUALIFICATIONS
Essential criteria

• CIPD or equivalent qualification (NVQ 5) or equivalent relevant experience

EXPERIENCE & Knowledge
Essential criteria

• Robust experience in an HR, LD or recruitment environment
• Knowledge and experience of developing and implementing systems and procedures
• Experience of analysing and interpreting workforce equalities data
• Experience of delivering workshops and/or training
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Knowledge and understanding of key issues within the NHS and/or other public sector organisations
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel packages
• Experience of using TRAC, or other recruitment/LD databases
• Significant experience of using databases, spreadsheets and staff record systems
• Experience in arranging, preparing agendas and taking minutes of meetings and other meetings as required

Sussex Partnership NHS FT is committed to supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. Our workforce is currently under-represented from Black and Minority, Ethnic and disabled communities and we would welcome applications from these communities.

We regret that we are unable to advise candidates if they have not been shortlisted. If you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.

In the event of an excessive number of applicants the Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy earlier than indicated.

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust takes its responsibilities for the safeguarding and protection of children and young people and vulnerable adults very seriously and expects this of all its employees and bank workers. The Trust works with adult and children's social care to ensure that the integrated service has systems in place to equip staff and bank workers with the knowledge and skills to recognize abuse, and take action to safeguard and protect vulnerable adults and children and young people. It is expected that all staff and bank workers familiarise themselves with the appropriate structures and policies and with the Sussex child protection and safeguarding procedures and the Sussex multi-agency policy and procedures for safeguarding vulnerable adults and undertake the relevant essential training and further training appropriate to their role.

Successful candidates are normally offered salaries at the bottom of the relevant salary range. However, where previous or equivalent NHS experience in a similar role can be demonstrated and evidenced, this may be taken into consideration when setting the starting salary.