Job description

Job responsibilities

Talent Acquisition Manager Hours: 37.5 hours per week Salary: £54,323 - £60,421 Location: This is a hybrid role, with the base location to be discussed with the successful candidate. Regular travel to MHM services across the country will be an important part of the role. Make a difference where it really matters Lead the function. Set the standard. Transform how we recruit. We have created a new internal recruitment agency and need an experienced Talent Acquisition Manager to lead it and make it exceptional. This is an exciting opportunity to embed and develop a high-performing function that attracts diverse, high-quality candidates at pace, delivers an excellent candidate experience and positions Mental Health Matters (MHM) as an employer of choice. This is a role for someone who wants to lead, innovate and leave a lasting legacy. About Mental Health Matters Mental Health Matters is a national charity delivering vital mental health services across the country. We work in partnership with NHS trusts, local authorities and community organisations to support people when they need us most. Our people are central to the quality of the services we provide. We have established a dedicated Talent Acquisition function that operates as an internal recruitment agency, providing a more proactive and effective approach to attracting, engaging and appointing people across MHM. The function focuses on providing hiring managers with high-quality candidates, reducing the administrative burden of recruitment and creating a seamless, professional and inclusive experience. A key part of our approach is ensuring our workforce better reflects the diversity of the communities we serve, widening access to opportunities and creating inclusive pathways into employment. The role As Talent Acquisition Manager, you will lead and develop our internal recruitment agency, ensuring it delivers real and measurable impact across MHM. You will take ownership of the end-to-end recruitment service, ensuring managers are provided with strong, well-matched and diverse candidates who are ready to interview. This will allow managers to focus on selecting the right people for their services while your team manages the wider recruitment journey. You will set clear standards and targets for the function, including time to hire, vacancy gap reduction, quality of hire, diversity outcomes, agency spend and candidate experience. You will use data and insight to understand what is working, identify challenges and continually improve our approach. This will be a visible and hands-on role. You will be expected to travel regularly to MHM services across the country to understand how they operate, build strong relationships with managers and teams, and gain a genuine understanding of the roles and people needed to deliver excellent services. You will use this insight to develop tailored recruitment approaches and provide practical support where recruitment challenges exist. You will:

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Please see attached job description.

Experience

Essential

• * Significant experience leading a recruitment or talent acquisition
• function within a multi site organisation
• * Experience managing and developing recruitment or resourcing
• teams
• * Proven track record of delivering end to end recruitment at scale,
• including volume and specialist roles
• * Experience building proactive talent pipelines rather than relying
• solely on reactive advertising
• * Experience reducing agency reliance through direct sourcing
• strategies
• * Experience partnering with senior stakeholders on workforce
• planning and vacancy governance
• * Experience setting and managing recruitment KPIs and
• performance standards
• * Experience implementing or operating safer recruitment practices
• within a regulated environment
• * Experience using recruitment systems and producing data driven
• insight

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Mental Health Matters

Address

Waterside House, Sunderland Enterprise Park, Sunderland SR5 2TZ

Sunderland

SR5 2TZ

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.mhm.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Job description

Job responsibilities

This role may be eligible for sponsorship under the UK Visas & Immigration (UKVI) Skilled Worker route. However, sponsorship can only be provided where applicants meet the specific requirements, therefore, we recommend that you assess your eligibility before applying for this position. Visit https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.

NHS Durham & Darlington Talking Therapies is a well-established psychological therapies service and has been providing psychological interventions to those residing in the County Durham and Darlington area since 2010. We are a joint venture of three experienced local and national providers of psychological therapies with a strong track record of success. It is led by Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust in collaboration with Mental Health Matters (MHM) and Sunderland Counselling Service (SCS).

The service has continued to develop new and innovative ways of supporting those patients presenting with common mental health difficulties, forming strong links with other supporting services in the area. We pride ourselves on helping people achieve good mental and physical well-being and live life to the full.

We support and encourage staff to attend relevant CPD to ensure they are able to keep up to date with accreditation and grow and develop as a practitioner

We have worked with staff to create a supportive and wellbeing focused environment and we have recently achieved the Gold standard for the Better Health at Work awards and we are currently working towards the Achieving Excellence level.

This job advert may close early if a high volume of applications have been received. If interested, please apply for this post as soon as possible.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• PWP qualifications from a British Psychological Society accredited PWP programme/apprenticeship
• Accredited with the BABCP or BPS as a PWP (or working towards accreditation if within 6 months of qualifying)
• If qualifying by the apprenticeship route have also passed the apprenticeship end point assessment

Desirable

• Key skills in literacy, numeracy and IT
• Core profession in mental health nursing, social work, occupational Therapy, psychology

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working with people with common mental health problems in an IAPT setting
• Ability to demonstrate a rane of experiences in offering and delivering a full range of evidence based IAPT low intensity interventions
• Experience of screening, assessing and working with a range of mental health issues at step 2
• Experience of working with and managing risk

Desirable

• Experience in drug/alcohol management
• Experience of partnership working
• Worked in a service where agreed targets are in place demonstrating clinical outcomes

Skills

Essential

• Computer skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including telephone skills
• Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients
• Able to work under pressure

Knowledge

Essential

• Ability to implement NICE Guidance for Step 2 interventions for mental health problems
• Knowledge of factors that can impact common mental health problems
• Competent in risk assessment
• Demonstrates and understanding of anxiety and depressive disorders and how they may present in Primary Care
• Demonstrates an understanding for the need to use evidence based psychological therapies and how it relates to this post

Desirable

• Demonstrates knowledge of the issues surrounding work and the impact it can have on mental health
• Knowledge of medication used in anxiety and depression and other common mental health problems

Personal

Essential

• Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships
• Ability to use own initiative and make decisions independently
• Committed to continual professional and personal development

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Seaham Primary Care Centre

Seaham

SR7 7JE

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.tewv.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)