Recruitment Manager (Band 5/EO)

Job summary

The Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE’s) mission is to prevent people being killed, injured or made ill by work activities. We help businesses and people understand how the laws to keep people safe and well at work affect them and provide guidance on what to do. To help us achieve this we employ the largest concentration of health and safety experts in the country including frontline inspectors, specialists, policy delivery teams, economists, lawyers and administrators, all working together to help protect people.

HSE’s resource needs are varied and wide-ranging from administrative and corporate roles through to niche and often hard to fill specialist roles. These might be scientific or engineering roles and this variety makes our work in recruitment really unique and interesting.

Recruitment is HR’s current number one priority. We are responsible for identifying, planning and fulfilling HSE’s resource requirements to ensure that we have the right people with the right skills and at the right time. Alongside this, we are working to improve the service experience for candidates and vacancy managers, the time we take to hire new employees and to increase the diversity of our candidate pool.

Please note that occasional travel to our headquarters at Redgrave Court, Bootle will be required for meetings, training, and other business needs.

Due to the nature of the work involved this role is only suitable for full time working.

Job description

The government announced on 30 June 2025 that the Building Safety Regulator (BSR) is to become an Arm's Length Body (ALB) of Ministry for Housing, Communities, and Local Government (MHCLG) and will be moved out of HSE. This is the natural next step in the development of the regulator and was always a likely outcome once BSR was established.

It has been confirmed that the ALB will be a Non-crown, Non-Departmental Public Body (NDPB), and as such its employees will be Public Servants, rather than Civil Servants.

Any successful candidates recruited to this vacancy will initially be onboarded to HSE, with a move to the new NDBP to be undertaken in due course

As a recruitment campaign manager, your goal will be to attract a diverse range of good quality candidates to work for HSE through a positive candidate experience. We deliver a variety of recruitment activity including single head count vacancies to large-scale campaigns. You will work closely with other Recruitment Managers and the Talent Attraction Lead to successfully deliver specific vacancies and recruitment projects with an emphasis on talent attraction. You will be accountable for ensuring that the candidate journey from application start to conclusion is of a positive nature. You will monitor and oversee the work of the Recruitment advisors during the campaign lifecycle. Additionally, you will work within a wider team that comprises of Assistant Recruitment Business Partners and Recruitment Business Partners, you may at times assist or be involved in larger recruitment campaigns and supporting other team members with more complex recruitment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Planning and delivering internal, across Government and external vacancies to required deadlines.
• Planning campaigns & holding Strategy Meetings - advising vacancy managers on the content of job adverts and appropriate use of the Civil Service Success Profiles.
• Highlighting recruitment needs, selection design requirements.
• Plan appropriate cost-effective advertising and making best use of HSE’s own advertising routes. Updating and publishing adverts on relevant HSE routes.
• Manage the successful delivery of your vacancies through to completion, maintaining and ensuring candidates and vacancy managers are kept informed.
• Update and regularly use recruitment systems, databases and reports, producing vacancy and candidate information to monitor progress, support team performance and to help evaluate recruitment outcomes.
• Communicate and negotiate offers of employment, working with vacancy managers and pay colleagues. Manage the efficient delivery of post- interview activity through to start date.
• Carry out checks on appointment work through to contract stage, ensuring recruitment administration is completed accurately within SLA’s and issues are identified and dealt with quickly. Ensure that recruitment team guidance and documents are maintained, and that relevant HR guidance is accurate. Draft changes and help communicate these appropriately. Ensure key management information is captured and recorded correctly.
• Lead and manage a small team of Recruitment Advisors to carry out and successfully complete recruitment onboarding

Person specification

Essential Skills and Criteria

• Previous experience of recruitment, including advising vacancy holders, leading on onboarding, and/or running recruitment campaigns (Lead Criterion)
• The ability to plan and prioritise your own workload, including the management of multiple work-streams to set delivery deadlines.
• Communicate effectively, understanding the needs of colleagues and different Stakeholders.
• Experience of maintaining accurate databases and producing information reports, preferably recruitment or HR systems.
• The ability to act as a positive role model by motivating and leading others.

Hybrid Working

At HSE, we are proud to be able to offer our people the opportunity to work in a hybrid way which combines working from home and the office. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement, and your allocated office will be your contractual place of work.

There will be a requirement to travel to the office for various activities, e.g., collaborative working, supporting and training colleagues. If hybrid working is suitable for you and your role, you will be expected to attend the office, or other business-related site, for 60% of your working week. The arrangements will be determined primarily by business need, but personal circumstances and other relevant circumstances will also be taken into account.

Therefore, we would encourage candidates to consider if the commute from home to the office is a feasible distance to travel before making an application. Please note that if you are successful, hybrid working will be discussed prior to taking up the post.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Managing a Quality Service
• Delivering at Pace
• Communicating and Influencing

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £31,657, Health and Safety Executive contributes £9,171 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).

• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity

We invest in our people with;

• Competitive rates of pay
• Access to the highly competitive Civil Service Pension Scheme to which HSE contribute 28.97%, far more than in the private sector.
• Family friendly policies and working hours to help balance your home life and career
• Carer friendly policies to help create a supportive working culture
• 25 days annual holiday increasing to 30 days after 5 years' service, plus bank holidays a