Recruitment and Selection Manager

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Job Description

Recruitment & Selection Manager

Grade 9

Are you looking for an exciting challenge to lead the day to day management of the Recruitment service for the second largest police force in the country?

West Midlands Police serves a population of almost 2.8million people. Our mission is simple - "Working in partnership, making communities safer". We want to be recognised as a police service that is big enough to cope with everything that is asked of us, whilst showing we are small enough to care about the things that really matter to our communities.

As the Recruitment & Selection Manager you will be responsible for leading and managing a team of recruiters to effectively attract, select and onboard the right people to support the communities of the West Midlands. We are seeking a talented and innovative leader with a proven track record in delivering excellent recruitment and selection services. You will know how to embed high performing, efficient, recruitment practices whilst maintaining a focus on delivering excellent customer service to both candidates and internal stakeholders.

Our recruitment team play a crucial role in ensuring that we have the right number of officers and staff to make the communities of the West Midlands safer.

The role will involve:

• Leading the management of the Recruitment services
• Managing effective resourcing delivery and contributing to the strategy, engaging with senior leaders to encourage and develop proactive approach and outlook
• Monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of resourcing initiatives to inform the commissioning of new interventions via workforce metrics and data
• Managing the smooth and effective delivery of the force's workforce plan, resulting in the right colleagues recruited at the right time in line with the forces vision and values
• Monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of Recruitment performance against KPI's and SLA's
• Ensuring that the recruitment team provide an excellent level of customer service and that candidates are being processed by the Recruitment & Selection team whilst mitigating and highlighting potential risks
• Leading the Citizens in Policing team including responsibility for Cadets, Specials and general volunteering

The post holder will be expected to work on their own initiative with strategic oversight from the Workforce Planning and Recruitment Strategic Lead.

Essential Requirements

• Experience of managing a resourcing/recruitment/Volunteering team within a large complex organisation
• Knowledge of resourcing/recruitment practices and their contribution to business success
• Experience of managing/delivering high profile volume recruitment activity
• Delivering services to dynamic organisation with completing demands.
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written with the ability to engage with key stakeholders at all levels of an organisation.
• Excellent report writing, presentation and business case skills
• High level of awareness of diversity issues appropriate to this role
• Experience of delivering diversity through recruitment strategies and initiatives including positive action

Desirable Requirements

• Previous experience of working within Policing or a Blue Light / public sector organisation.
• Managing a team in the successful delivery of a People Strategy Leadership in a values led organisation
• Trained as an Advanced Designated Safeguarding Lead

Prospective officers and staff must be held to a higher standard of behaviour and accountability than members of the public, and that therefore their right to privacy can be fettered in certain circumstances. This is to ensure that members of the police are fully aware and accountable for the unique powers entrusted to them and the standards of professional behaviour they swear to uphold.

Vetting: Successful applicants will be required to pass Recruitment Vetting and Counter-Terrorism Clearance scrutiny prior to commencing their role, this will include a full background and financial disclosure as part of the vetting process.

Medical: Appointment to this role may be dependent upon successful medical checks, which may include a drugs test and if required a fitness test.

Hours: Monday to Friday within core hours.

Interviews: Interview dates to be confirmed.

Contact: For further information regarding this role, please contact Lorraine Yeomans (Workforce Planning and Recruitment Manager) at lorraine.yeomans@westmidlands.police.uk.

Benefits

By choosing to join West Midlands Police you will receive an enhanced benefits package including:

• Fair remuneration with progression opportunities, and access to a very competitive pension scheme
• Enhanced annual leave in additional to public holiday entitlements
• Discounts across travel, parking, daily costs of living and leisure activities

A comprehensive wellbeing package including 24/7 support, free eye tests and flu jabs

West Midlands Police is a Disability Confident Leader - the highest level an organisation can achieve under the scheme run by the Department of Work and Pensions. As part of our commitment we operate a 'Disability Confident Interview Scheme' - all candidates who declare a disability and meet the essential criteria for the role will be offered an interview.

It is important to note that there may be occasions where it is not practicable or appropriate to interview all disabled people who meet the essential criteria for the job. For example: in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. In these circumstances, the employer could select the candidates who best meet the essential criteria for the job, as they would do for non-disabled applicants.

"Diversity and Inclusion Vision: Maximise the potential of people from all backgrounds through a culture of fairness and inclusion to deliver the best service for our communities"

About Us

West Midlands Police is the second largest police force in the country, covering an area of 348 square miles and serving a population of almost 2.8 million.

The region sits at the very heart of the country and covers the three major centres of Birmingham, Coventry and Wolverhampton. It also includes the busy and thriving districts of Sandwell, Walsall, Solihull and Dudley. Leisure, retail and conference amenities, together with Premiership and Championship football teams, attract millions of visitors annually.

The West Midlands is an area rich in diversity, with 18 per cent of its population from ethnic minority backgrounds.

An average of 170,000 motorists travel through the region daily, making its motorways some of the busiest in Europe.

Against this backdrop, the force deals with more than 2,000 emergency calls for help every day, as well as patrolling the streets and responding to incidents 24-hours-a-day, seven days a week.