Early Careers Skills Programmes Recruitment Specialist FTC in Thornton-Cleveleys

12 Month FTC

Supporting the business and our divisional offices, our Head Office functions cover all departments from our Executive Board through to our support functions such as Group Design and Technical, HR, Health and Safety, IT, Sales and Marketing, Commercial, Procurement, Group Finance, Corporate Affairs, as well as Legal and Company Secretariat. We also have a specialised function – Barratt Partnerships.

While the work varies from team to team, our key requirements don’t: you must be well organised, extremely helpful and resourceful, and able to use your initiative. You’ll understand that what you do is important, and impacts on your team, the department, and the wider business.

Partnering with the Skills Development team to understand key resource requirements, ensuring the accurate development of resourcing plans that meet both current and future organisational skills needs. This includes shaping and modernising how we recruit and assess our Skills Programmes, as well as building and sustaining emerging talent pipelines to secure future capability.

• Responsible for Skills Programmes resourcing plans including Trade Apprenticeships, Apprenticeship Graduate programmes.
• Lead the redesign of how we recruit and assess Trade Apprenticeships, Apprenticeship programmes, Graduate pathways and any new emerging pathways, ensuring a consistent, inclusive and future‐focused approach.
• Act as the recruitment subject matter expert on employee resourcing strategies to provide innovative, cost effective and timely solutions.
• Optimise direct delivery and time to hire capability and strive to continually improve our service.
• Develop and maintain the recruitment process within the business evaluating and improving the effectiveness of recruitment material such as job adverts.
• Utilise social media and other professional networks, with the ability to undertake proactive attraction that has a direct impact on talent pipelines.
• Oversee delivery of recruitment across all programmes to ensure that KPI's are met.
• Manage all external suppliers including recruitment agencies, advertising agencies, job boards in relation to recruitment activity.
• Continually review and utilise the ATS for recruitment processes ensuring that all workflows, templates and portals are in line with company requirements.

What You’ll Need

To be successful in the role, we are looking for:

• Essential
• Expert in end‐to‐end in‐house recruitment.
• Strong understanding of employment legislation and compliance (referencing, redeployment, immigration).
• Experience recruiting career changers and early‐career talent, including assessment centre design.
• Solid knowledge of Degree Apprenticeship frameworks and entry requirements.
• Confident user of Applicant Tracking Systems.
• Excellent stakeholder management with strong influencing and negotiation skills.
• Effective project and campaign management capability.
• Strong verbal, written and presentation communication.
• Consistently role models company values.
• Experience improving recruitment and assessment approaches for early‐career pipelines.
• Applies assessment best practice to ensure fairness, inclusion and accurate capability measurement.
• Desirable
• Understanding of the organisation's skills programmes portfolio, particularly apprenticeships.
• Awareness of diversity principles and how they link to resourcing.
• Familiarity with social media and professional networks, with the ability to proactively attract talent and strengthen pipelines.
• Proactive and curious approach, with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Balanced, considered decision‐making.
• Takes accountability for personal development.

Benefits

Our Company and Benefits

We’ve been nationally recognised as a 5 star housebuilder since 2010 for supplying high-quality homes for all generations. That’s more than any other major housebuilder. It’s because we combine the brightest minds, the latest technology, and a genuine commitment to putting customers first. We want the best people in the industry to help us shape the future of building. We have tailored opportunities for apprentices, graduates, experienced professionals and ex‐Armed Forces personnel to come and help us stay one step ahead, and build the homes that Britain needs.

Barratt adopts a hybrid way of working which assumes that where roles allow, our office‐based colleagues divide their time between working in the office, on our construction sites and sales offices, and working from home, as the role dictates. We recognise the many benefits that an effective hybrid working culture brings to both the Company and our colleagues.

We are building an organisation where anyone with drive and talent can pursue the career they want. We are building a culture where anyone, regardless of gender, race, age, sexuality, disability, background or any other characteristic, can progress and be proud to work for us.

As part of working for Barratt Redrow PLC and specifically for this role we offer:

• Competitive Salary
• Competitive Bonus Scheme
• Private Medical Cover - Single Cover
• 26 days' holiday (increase by 1 day for every 3 years' continuous service up to 29 days)
• Choice of Flexible Benefits
• Enhanced Family Friendly Policies

Our Benefits Are Fit To Measure

Today's housebuilding professional need tomorrow's benefits, so they're ready for whatever the future brings. When you join Barratt, you get the kind of support you would expect from a business built for a modern working world.

• Private medical cover
• Private healthcare support is available for timely access to a virtual GP, for diagnosis, treatment and more — including physio and talking therapies. You can even add family members.
• Pension
• First‐class pension schemes with the option of up to 10% employer contributions.
• Annual Health Assessment
• All colleagues are able to access a fully funded annual health assessment, helping you to proactively manage your health and wellbeing.
• Financial Benefits
• As well as a competitive salary, we offer many ways to make life more affordable – from access to employee loans and savings accounts, to house purchase discounts.
• Lifestyle Benefits
• Cycle to Work scheme, reduced hotel rate, discounts at major retailers... These make a massive difference to the quality of your lifestyle.
• So much more...
• From death in service, paid volunteer and study leave, enhanced family friendly policies (including our Parents and Carers leave) to a share buying scheme, we have an incredible range of additional benefits.