3185 Head of Resource and Onboarding - Home Group

Head of Resourcing and Onboarding

Home Group

• Hybrid working, based at One Strawberry Lane, Newcastle upon Tyne 2 days per week, with home working the rest.
• Permanent, full time (37.5 hpw) Circa £65,000 per annum, negotiable based on skills and experience, plus car allowance of £5,000 per annum and great benefits including Health Cash Plan!

Home, a place where you belong:

Are you ready to lead a dynamic team and shape the future of our workforce? As our Head of Resourcing & Onboarding, you'll drive attracting top talent, making them feel at home, and supporting their growth. We're keen to focus on our colleagues' first year to reduce attrition and ensure they thrive from the start.

Join us and make a real impact on their journey. Reporting to Vic our Director of People, you’ll lead a team of specialists dedicated to ensuring every new joiner has a fantastic experience from their first interaction as a candidate, through to getting their induction right and passing their probation.

If you're passionate about creating an engaging candidate and colleague experience, we're keen to hear from you!

A typical day as Head of Resourcing & Onboarding:

• Leading a team to develop innovative recruitment strategies, ensuring we attract and retain top talent.
• Overseeing the end-to-end recruitment process, from attraction to selection, ensuring an excellent candidate experience
• Designing and implementing cutting-edge onboarding programmes that make new hires feel welcome, prepared and ready to excel in their new roles.
• Collaborating with HR colleagues to promote inclusion, equity, diversity, and belonging in all our practices.
• Using key metrics to drive continuously improvement of the service we deliver, presenting key updates to senior leadership.
• Using your knowledge of employment law, compliance, and sponsorship, you empower your team to support our managers to deliver best practices in attraction, selection, onboarding, and induction.
• Together, you'll create a welcoming and inclusive environment for new colleagues.
• You’ll do all that here, working in the top 10 Greatest Places to Work in the UK!

You bring:

• Extensive experience in leading high-performing HR teams within complex, regulated environments.
• Proven track record in improving resourcing services, with expertise in both high-volume and specialised recruitment.
• In-depth knowledge of recruitment, onboarding, and induction, with a passion for breaking down barriers for underrepresented groups.
• Strong leadership and excellent people management skills, inspiring your team to achieve excellence within a warm, high-energy culture focused on outstanding results.
•  Degree-level qualification in HR / CIPD Level 5 or equivalent experience, with a passion for continuous learning and developing your skills.
• You bring a dynamic expertise in leveraging new legislation, cutting-edge technology, and innovative tools.
• As an enthusiastic innovator, you’re always eager to identify opportunities to enhance our recruitment, onboarding, and induction processes.
• Your passion ensures our services are not just efficient and inclusive, but also constantly evolving to support all colleagues, including those who are deskless!

Our team Looking for a job where you really belong?

Where you can be you! Bring your uniqueness, brilliant skills and awesome experience to deliver amazing things for our candidates and colleagues. You’ll join our HRD leadership team, who are a really great bunch of supportive peers. Together you’ll meet regularly to drive strategy and to ensure we have a collaborative and collegiate approach in leading our teams.

Job details:

• Hybrid working from our brilliant new offices at One Strawberry Lane in Newcastle city centre for a minimum of 2 days per week.
• Full time, 37.5 hpw, flexible working hours (we’re open to agreeing a work pattern with you).
• If you need to nip out to walk the dog or do the school run, we’re ok with that too!
• A place where you belong Great things happen when we can be ourselves at work. We want all our colleagues to be who they truly are here.
• Our internal diversity networks, peers and allies (Multicultural, LGBTQIA+ and Disability) support us all to be our best.

Together we make Home Group a great place to work!

What’s in it for you?

• 34 days leave (this includes bank holidays and a me day to take for whatever you fancy) increasing to 39, the option to buy 5 more and time off for volunteering too!
• Health cash plan saving you from £1140 per annum. We’ll cover your costs (and kids if you have them) towards dental, optical, prescriptions, alternative therapies and lots more.
• Over 800 high street discounts on groceries, holidays and days out.
• Looking for a new phone, bike or car? Save money with us.
• We’re a Great Place to Work, 10th Best place in the UK for Wellbeing and 1st best workplaces for women!”
• We Grow Our Own colleagues (not literally of course!), when you’re ready for the next step in your career, you can grow with us!
• Generous pension scheme with life insurance of 3x salary.

Explore our full range of benefits on our website.

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