via Indeed · 23 September 2026 ·2 days ago

Recruitment Administrator

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Reading Part-time
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Looking for a recruitment role where you can make a real difference?

Every vacancy our recruitment team fills supports services across our trust, helping to ensure patients receive great care.

This is a busy and varied coordination role where you'll manage vacancies through our recruitment system, Trac, from start to finish. You'll create vacancies, arrange interviews, send offers, coordinate pre\-employment checks and support candidates through onboarding, helping to ensure a smooth recruitment process and positive candidate experience.

You'll work closely with recruiting managers, candidates and colleagues across the Trust, providing excellent customer service and keeping recruitment activity on track. An important part of the role is resolving issues that could delay a candidate's start date, helping us meet our time\-to\-hire targets while ensuring NHS recruitment standards are maintained.

The role is 30 hours per week, Monday to Friday, with flexibility to work your hours between 8am and 6pm.

For your first three months you'll be office\-based for induction and training. After this, you'll move to our hybrid working model, spending two days in the office and three days working from home.

Please note: This role is not eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship under current UK immigration rules. Applicants must already have the right to work in the UK.

We're looking for someone with strong attention to detail, excellent communication skills and the ability to manage a busy workload. You'll enjoy problem\-solving, removing barriers and helping vacancies progress efficiently.

Advertise vacancies accurately and effectively, ensuring roles are progressed within agreed timescales.

Liaise with Recruiting Managers, Team Leaders, Finance and Human Resources colleagues to ensure job descriptions, person specifications and all recruitment documentation are complete and processed prior to advertisement.

Manage the shortlisting, interview and appointment process from start to finish, including offers of employment, contracts and pre\-employment checks, supporting candidates through to their start date.

Administer the recruitment and selection process in line with the Trust's Recruitment and Selection Policy, ensuring NHS employment check standards are met while proactively resolving issues that could delay recruitment and onboarding.

We're committed to supporting career development and offer a range of learning and development opportunities to help you grow in your role.

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we’re committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.

Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are:

Caring for and about you is our top priority

Committed to providing good quality, safe services

Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions

Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:

Flexible working options to support work\-life balance

27 days’ annual leave rising with service \+ opportunity to buy and sell

Generous NHS pension scheme

Excellent learning and career development opportunities

‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles

Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services

Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants

Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality

Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave

Free parking across Trust sites

The “must haves” for this role:

Previous, demonstrable experience working in a fast paced administration/customer service role

An understanding of the end\-to\-end recruitment lifecycle

Good communication skills, both written \& verbal

For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.

Your application is your opportunity to demonstrate to us how you meet the requirements of the role. We recognise that AI tools can support accessibility, equity and confidence for applicants. However, it’s important that examples and responses given in your supporting statement genuinely reflect your own experience and abilities, as these will be explored further during the selection process. AI must not be used to provide misleading or false information during any stage of the application journey.

In addition to explaining how you meet the person specification, you must complete your employment history for at least the last five years. Any experience, skills or responsibilities referenced in your supporting statement should be evidenced within your employment history. Applications that do not include sufficient employment history to support the experience claimed may not be shortlisted.

We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Stonewall Proud Employer, Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.

We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don’t hesitate to call: Azra Azeezil on azra.azeezil@berkshire.nhs.uk who’ll be delighted to help.

Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.

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