Job summary
- Main area
- Recruitment Administration
- Grade
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 371-TAP-CS3991
- Employer
- Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- 57-59 Bath Rd
- Town
- Reading
- Salary
- £24,937 - £26,598 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/03/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Recruitment Assistant
Band 3
Job overview
Are you organised, people-focused and looking for a varied role in a supportive recruitment team?
We’re seeking a Recruitment Assistant to join our busy and friendly Recruitment Administration team in Reading.
This is a varied, customer-facing role where you’ll be one of the first points of contact for candidates starting their journey with our Trust. You’ll provide valuable support across the recruitment team, helping with ID checks and onboarding for new starters, managing inboxes, sending letters and other recruitment related administrative tasks.
You’ll bring a proactive, organised and solution focussed approach with strong prioritisation skills. You’ll communicate effectively in person, by phone & email, and have experience in administration roles and customer care.
As our Recruitment Assistant, you’ll gain hands-on experience of the full recruitment process & insight into a wide range of recruitment activities across Berkshire Healthcare’s services. We’ve a strong focus on learning and development, so there will be access to plenty of training opportunities with scope to progress in the future. You’ll benefit from our compassionate culture, generous leave and other NHS benefits.
This is a part-time, year round, permanent role for 27.5 hrs/week. We're open to flexible working patterns within our core hours of 8am to 5pm, Mon-Fri. You’ll work set hours across all 5 days in our Reading office. Due to the nature of the role, homeworking can’t be offered.
Main duties of the job
Support the Recruitment Administration team members as required across end-to-end recruitment processes. This will include:
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Contacting candidates by phone and email and welcome them to the office for ID checks
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Conducting ID checks, ensuring documentation is compliant and securely stored
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Printing and distributing ID cards for new starters
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Producing confidential correspondence, including conditional offers
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Maintaining accurate records across electronic systems, including Trac
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Providing excellent customer service to candidates
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Maintaining organised office systems to ensure smooth day-to-day operations
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Managing the team inbox and incoming and outgoing mail as required
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Assisting with data collection, reporting and general administrative tasks
Internal candidates can apply for this vacancy here OR via Nexus: Jobs and secondments | Nexus
Working for our organisation
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
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The “must haves” for this role:
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Previous experience in an office-based administrative and/or customer care environment, undertaking a full range of administrative duties
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Excellent customer service skills, strong written and verbal communication skills
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A proactive and organised approach, with the ability to take initiative, prioritise workload effectively and support a busy team environment.
Please use your application to provide clear examples to demonstrate how you meet the essential criteria, particularly how you have been proactive, organised and customer-focused in previous roles.
For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.
We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: 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 [email protected] or 01189043975 who’ll be delighted to help.
Please note, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications/Training
Essential criteria
- NVQ3 or equivalent qualification/experience
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Basic knowledge of administration and/or office procedures
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to empathise, be supportive and sensitive to the needs of others
- Ability to use a practical problem -solving approach in everyday situations
- Good IT skills, with an ability to navigate around various systems and software packages, such as Outlook, MS Office, the internet and databases
- Ability to work effectively in a team and to work unsupervised and on own initiative
- Ability to attend the office in Reading each day and work flexibility, occasionally attending meetings across Berkshire
Previous experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of dealing with the public
- Working in an office and/or customer care environment, undertaking a full range of administrative duties
- Experience of team working
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Azra Azeezil
- Job title
- Deputy Recruitment Administration Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01189043975
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