About the team we are recruiting to

The Coventry City Council Recruitment Team is a diverse and vibrant team responsible for delivering key services for the wider organisation and external partners. Ensuring an engaging and smooth experience for our users internally and externally is at the heart of what we do and goes hand in hand with our commitment to continuous improvement.  

We are the face of the recruitment process, working closely within the business by partnering with key stakeholders to ensure that we effectively resource plan and offer the best candidate experience.  

Offering insight and best practice on attraction, selection, compliance, onboarding and induction is a core capability of the team as we act as the conduit between our hiring managers and the candidate market. Our ambition is to not just hire the best available talent but retain it, that is why we work with our colleagues across the wider HR Service to ensure additional policies focussing on induction, reward and wellbeing.  

Our work spreads beyond the Council and into our local business community whereby we partner and support local businesses on a range of services such as compliance & screening, advertising and redeployment of employees going through redundancy. Throughout the educational sector we support schools, colleges and universities in offering work experience, apprenticeships and graduate programmes guiding the next generation of talent and ensuring we maintain those skills within Coventry.    

What is the job role?

We are currently recruiting for a Recruitment & Retention Lead for our Adult Social Care department, on a fixed term contract until March 2021, to a lead the recruitment across the service area with particular focus on our external care providers.

This is new position in which you will advise and support external care providers in the recruitment and retention of their workforce, and the importance of this  to support infection control and reduce the rate of COVID-19 transmission in and between care homes and support wider workforce resilience. 

You will support and co-ordinate multi-agency work in preventing risk of Covid19 infections across care homes and other accommodation settings that house vulnerable people by the recruitment and retention of a permanent and stable workforce

Working in partnership with Adult Social Care management and external care providers  and using best practice and innovation in the areas of recruitment and retention, you will provide an effective service for recruitment of Support and Care staff.

This is an opportunity for an experienced recruitment professional to really add value and make a difference, to lead, guide and support our external providers and promote the support that Coventry City Council can provide across various recruitment methods. 

Core duties and responsibilities: 

• Work in partnership with our external care providers to support the recruitment of a permanent workforce and support wider resilience for their homes.
• Promotion and business development of Coventry City Council Recruitment Team’s commercial offering for external care providers to support the providers will full recruitment, advertising, attraction and selection.  
• Lead on the recruitment of Social Care workers and other posts within Adult Social Care that are hard to reach.
• Develop effective strategies for the retention of existing Adult Social Care staff and recruitment of new ones for Coventry City Council and our external Adult Social Care providers.
• Design and implement effective retention initiatives to prevent the loss of good quality Social Care staff and other hard to reach posts in Adult Social Care

Who are we looking for?

In order to be successful in the role it is essential that you have experience within a recruitment setting, ideally within the Adult Social Care environment  

You will be commercially focused with good negotiating, business development and influencing skills with a proactive approach to your work and the ambition and drive to promote and develop our external recruitment support for providers.  

You will have knowledge and understanding of the importance of infection control infection control  in relation to staffing and workforce with up to date expert knowledge a of the relevant registration relating to recruitment and retention and the challenges faced across Adult Social Care. 

You will be a confident communicator with the ability to advise, recommend and support key stakeholders in workforce planning, recruitment and retention strategies. 

For full details on the application process please read the attached document on our jobs page labelled 'Coventry City Council Application Process'

All attachments for the job can be found here

Interview date: 10th and 13th November 

About Coventry

Coventry is a lively, multicultural city, which embraces old and new. Around the modern city centre there are traces of history everywhere – in the old city walls, the timber-framed buildings and the reconstructed medieval Spon Street. But Coventry has always had an eye on the future, and is now firmly focused on regenerating and re-inventing itself to meet the challenges of the 21st Century. With major developments and new projects taking place right across the city, Coventry City Council is the place to be!

There's a huge buzz about the city – Coventry ranks as the 8th best city to live, work and do business in the UK, and is the UK City of Culture 2021 ! We believe this will help put Coventry on the map for all the right reasons. You can feel the sense of local pride throughout the city as we build towards this momentous year. It also offers a unique, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to those joining us to play their part in it.

We genuinely believe that Coventry City Council is a special place. You will be joining Coventry City Council during an exciting time to become part of a team that contribute to achieving our visions for the city. We have made our council a place where we look after our people, making sure you're happy in your work and given everything you need to succeed. We've created friendly, welcoming workplaces where everyone is working towards the same cause, providing the best possible services for the city of Coventry.

As a Council with improvement at its heart, we’re committed to making life better for the people who live and work in Coventry. We’re equally concerned with the quality of life enjoyed by our people, so by joining us, you won’t just be helping the community, you’ll be helping yourself too.

Not only do you get to work alongside great people that are helping to improve services for our community we offer great benefits too! For your valued contribution we will provide a fantastic benefits package including;

• Flexible working arrangements
• Generous annual leave allowance starting at 27 days and rising to 32 days
• Pay progression through multiple increments
• Outstanding local government pension scheme
• Learning & Development with access to certified courses.
• Access to an award winning Occupational Health Team
• Vibrant employee networks 

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