HR and Recruitment Assistant

Our benefits

Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.

You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!

Why choose us?

We offer a vibrant working environment with:

• a competitive salary
• a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
• lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
• generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
• hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.

We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.

About the role

As a Human Resource and Recruitment Assistant at North Northamptonshire Council, you will be at the heart of our HR operational advisory team collaborating with colleagues to deliver an efficient HR administration and recruitment service to all areas of the organisation. 

You will reflect our “One Council” values and behaviours, ensuring that these are embedded within the culture of our organisation and leading by example.

The role will require travel between North Northamptonshire Council Offices.

For informal enquiries please email: hradvisory.nnc@northnorthants.gov.uk  

What will you be doing?

This role offers an opportunity to provide a comprehensive and effective HR administration and recruitment service.

You will be the first point of contact to answer first line HR queries, directing managers to their nominated advisory support as required.

As a Recruitment Assistant you will be supporting managers by continually developing our recruitment process to ensure best value for The Council.

Key points of the role will include:

• Timely response to customer needs.
• Maintain various HR systems and databases
• Raising Purchase Orders
• Monitoring HR inboxes.
• Assisting with general HR issues

Please refer to the attached job description for full details of the main accountabilities for this role.

About you

The successful candidates must have good working knowledge with Microsoft Office Packages such as Word, Excel, Power Point and Outlook. This can be demonstrated by experience or certification.

You will have great verbal, written, communication and organisation skills with the ability to prioritise work to ensure deadlines are met.

Interviews will be held on Monday 10^th February 2025.

The requirements for this role are outlined in the attached person specification and will be part of any selection process. 

About us

Our Values and Behaviours

Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are:

Customer-focused
Respectful
Efficient
Supportive
Trustworthy

Our Key Commitments

Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.

We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.

North Northamptonshire Council re-signed the Armed Forces Covenant in June 2024 which highlights the Council’s pledge to support the Armed Forces community. The council obtained the silver status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) and we are now currently working towards achieving Gold status.

We aim to be a carbon neutral Council by 2030.

Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)