Resourcing Adviser in Coventry

We are recruiting for the role of Resourcing Adviser on a Permanent and fixed term contract until October 2027) in our Resourcing team.

We're looking for an experienced and motivated Resourcing Adviser to join our national Resourcing Team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in attracting, recruiting and onboarding talented people who help us deliver our vital work with children and families across England.

We trust and empower colleagues to work in a hybrid way and will you will be required to attend a local office to you at least once a week.

Let us tell you a bit more about the role…

As a Resourcing Adviser, you will support the delivery of safe, timely and effective recruitment across a designated portfolio of operational service areas. Working closely with Resourcing Business Partners, hiring managers and HR colleagues, you will coordinate end-to-end recruitment activity, ensuring vacancies are progressed efficiently and in line with workforce priorities.

You will be a trusted point of contact for candidates and managers throughout the recruitment journey, providing expert guidance and delivering an outstanding candidate experience while maintaining the highest standards of safer recruitment and compliance.

Managing a varied and often complex workload, you'll use your organisational skills, attention to detail and customer-focused approach to ensure recruitment campaigns, vacancies and pre-employment checks are completed to a high standard and within agreed timescales.

What you'll be doing

• Coordinating end-to-end recruitment activity across a range of vacancies and service areas.
• Supporting managers with recruitment planning, interview arrangements and recruitment processes.
• Managing vacancy advertising across multiple channels, ensuring adverts align with Cafcass's employer brand.
• Building positive relationships with candidates, hiring managers, HR Business Partners and key stakeholders.
• Conducting candidate screening calls and supporting talent attraction activities.
• Coordinating all aspects of pre-employment checks, including DBS, right to work, employment references and professional registration verification.
• Maintaining accurate recruitment system records and ensuring data quality.
• Monitoring recruitment progress and identifying risks or delays, escalating where appropriate.
• Supporting high-volume and targeted recruitment campaigns.
• Contributing to continuous improvement initiatives and helping shape more efficient ways of working across the Resourcing Team.

… and what we’re looking for.

We're looking for someone who is passionate about delivering excellent recruitment services and creating positive experiences for candidates and hiring managers alike.

• Experience of coordinating recruitment processes from vacancy approval through to onboarding.
• Strong knowledge of recruitment administration and pre-employment checking processes.
• Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines.
• Experience of working with recruitment, HR or applicant tracking systems.
• Outstanding communication and relationship-building skills.
• A customer-focused approach with the confidence to provide advice and guidance to a range of stakeholders.
• Excellent attention to detail and the ability to maintain accuracy when handling sensitive information.
• A commitment to inclusion, equality, safeguarding and safer recruitment principles.
• The ability to work independently while also contributing positively to a collaborative team environment.

You can find out more about the above before you apply by reading the job description in the ‘documents’ section.

Next steps / timelines

If and when you are ready to apply, our application process is straightforward and quick to complete. You don’t need to complete your application in a single visit, you can start it and come back and amend your responses / update your CV, just make sure you come back before the closing date to submit.

Below we have given you an indication of a timetable we are hoping to work towards, although dates are subject to change.

We understand you may benefit from finding out more to help you decide to apply. There is a lot of information available at Cafcass Careers but if there is something else you need to find out more about, you can contact Michelle Berridge - Michelle.Berridge@cafcass.gov.uk

Whilst we will always try and respond a.s.a.p. we wouldn’t want you to miss the closing date before we are able to. If this is the case, we recommend you apply and as part of your application you can ask questions and this may allow us to contact you and provide you with the required information that will help you decide if you still wish to be considered.

Finally, in anticipation of your application being successful, you might want to read about the offer and pre-employment checks process. As part of your application you can highlight any concerns or questions about the pre-employment checks and we encourage all applicants to do so, safe in the knowledge such information will not be shared with individuals involved in the selection process.

We look forward to hearing from you.

We are Cafcass – the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service – and we represent children in family court cases in England.

Independently advising the family courts about what is safe for children and in their best interests, we speak up for over 130,0000 children every year when the family court makes critical decisions about their futures, ensuring their needs, wishes and feelings are heard.

Watch our video to find out we don’t just listen to children’s voices but we can be their voice.