Talent Co-ordinator

About the opportunity

We are looking for a Talent Co-ordinator to join our People and Development Directorate within our Talent Team. This is an exciting role where you will be providing support to the Talent Team and the wider business including our pet hospitals, retail stores and support functions in delivering our talent strategy, early careers programmes and recruitment campaigns.

Ideally, you will have an understanding of the full recruitment lifecycle, you might have worked within a recruitment or HR function previously, and you will have a real passion for people and their development.

PDSA is a special organisation that touches the lives of pets and people across the UK. What we do matters. We exist to provide compassionate vet care for those in need. We are here for the person and their pet, as a family.

About You

In this people centric role, you will need to be comfortable at building relationships across different levels with a focus on stakeholder and supplier management. You will also need to be highly organised, balancing different tasks and priorities. As a go to for information within the talent team, you will support the complete recruitment lifecycle giving you real opportunity for you to grow within the role and in your career;

Responsible for

• Support of centrally managed recruitment plans, including ATS administration, advert writing and posting
• Actively sourcing candidates through our existing talent pools and LinkedIn
• Taking a proactive role with our Social Media campaigns on Facebook and working closely with our marketing and brand teams
• Oversee our candidate experience through monitoring of the Networx ATS to ensure that recruitment campaigns are processing in a timely manner
• Coach and support line managers to use the tools. resources and skills required to effectively recruit new colleagues
• Support with day to day administrative activity of apprenticeships and our graduate programme including liaising with universities, providers and internal stakeholders
• Analyse information from systems and existing reports to identify actions that will improve the apprentice journey and maximise use of the apprenticeship levy

About the rewards

We are really passionate about being a great place to work, where people feel connected with what we do and where they feel they can make a genuine difference. This commitment has resulted in us being included in the Sunday Times Top 100 Best Not-for-Profit Companies to Work for in the UK – a title we hope to retain in future years to come.

In addition to being a great place to work, we offer a competitive salary, a 35-hour week (pro rata for part time) and a wide range of benefits, including:

• Remote and flexible working options available
• In addition to public holidays, we’ll give you 25 days holiday per year with the option to buy and sell up to 5 days holiday each year
• An additional Wellbeing day to take whenever you like to help recharge your batteries
• Employee Assistance Program and Online Wellbeing Centre available 24/7 giving you the ability to speak with a professional in confidence about a range of issues
• Generous Auto-Enrolment pension and/or Contributory pension schemes available starting at an enhanced rate of 5% contributions up to 10%
• You will be covered by our Life Assurance policy payable to your named beneficiaries (4 x Annual Salary)
• Wide range of discounts for Retail, Holiday and similar organisations on our fetch platform

So, if you want to join our amazing team and be part of one of the Sunday Times 100 Best Not-For-Profit Organisations, please click on APPLY, create a candidate account and send us your details.

About PDSA

We are one of the Sunday Times Top 100 Not for Profit organisations to work for meaning PDSA is truly a great place to work!

As the UK’s leading veterinary charity, with 48 Pet Hospitals, we strive to improve pets’ lives – through prevention, education and treatment. Every year our dedicated vet teams carry out 2.7 million treatments on 470,000 pets. Our national network of around 120 high street shops help us to provide these treatments through selling both donated and new goods.

We believe that we work better together, so everyone from our vets, volunteers, shop teams and to our office support colleagues – we are driven in our dedication and passionate about pets. Join us and help improve the lives of every pet.

PDSA is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.

The organisation is committed to safeguarding and ensuring the welfare of children, young people and adults at risk and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.