Location: Agile, Forth Banks Station/ Home working
Contract Length: 12-month secondment/ fixed term
Salary Range: £26,796 to £29,331
The Role
Here at Northumbria Police, we think our region is amazing! It’s in our DNA to be passionate about what we do. Our overall purpose is to keep people safe and fight crime and we are now looking for an Onboarding and Induction Practitioner to join our team on a 12-month secondment. Is that you?
People are at the centre of Northumbria Police. We are committed to attracting and developing talented individuals with the zest, enthusiasm and drive to deliver first class policing services to the region.
To fully realise this ambition, you will assist in delivering our talent agenda. Working within our talent acquisition strand the Onboarding & Induction Practitioner will focus on ensuring officers, staff and volunteers feel welcomed and supported, building cultural awareness and employee value to facilitate successful performance as well as recognising their contribution at the end of service.
What will I be doing?
You will need to demonstrate experience of embedding organisational values and behaviours, allowing people to embed, develop and succeed. To deliver this you will need to show your ability to design, build and introduce pre-boarding processes and frameworks within an organisation.
You will be pivotal in ensuring our candidate’s career journey with Northumbria starts positively by demonstrating your ability to coordinating numerous logistical, technical and administrative requirements for candidates. This will ensure that we deliver a positive candidate experience throughout the whole candidate journey. You will also assist in supporting the development of initiatives, activities and events to improve the onboarding experience for all internal and external hires, proactively promoting the employer brand.
Working collaboratively with the wider acquisition team you will ensure candidates are kept fully informed of progress at regular intervals and managers have made contact during the pre-boarding stage.
What do I need?
• Qualified at level 3 in Customer Service or a similar discipline, or equivalent experience
• An understanding of recruitment and onboarding frameworks
• Ability to plan, prioritise and complete various projects simultaneously
• Ability to build strong working relationships
• Ability to communicate information clearly and succinctly, both verbally and in writing
• Self-motivation, initiative and drive, and the ability to demonstrate professional resilience
Vacancy Contact
To discuss this role in more detail please contact the Senior Acquisition Partner, Tamara Hastie-Thorpe by email at tamara.hastie-thorpe@northumbria.police.uk
Vetting level, Recruitment Vetting (RV)
Applicants must be a resident of the UK for a minimum period of 3 years to ensure vetting checks can be successfully performed. A job offer will be dependent upon vetting clearance, medical information and references.
If you have any questions in relation to the application process, please contact the Talent Acquisition Team by email at careers@northumbria.police.uk
Northumbria Police are currently undertaking a role and reward project in respect of all police staff posts.
All staff including those appointed on fixed term contracts must successfully complete their probationary period before they are eligible to apply for a Northumbria Police vacancy.
Northumbria Police fully supports a policy of equal opportunities, and we welcome applications from suitably qualified people from all sections of the community, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. Appointments are based on merit alone.