HR Recruitment Administrator
Full-time, permanent
Office-based
About The Role
We're looking for a highly organised and dependable HR Recruitment Administrator to take ownership of our new starter onboarding process from offer through to day one. You'll make sure every pre-employment check is completed on time, every record is accurate, and every new joiner feels supported and informed throughout.
This is a compliance-critical role that sits within our HR team and operates within a regulated children's services environment. You'll be someone who takes real pride in getting the details right, stays calm under pressure, and understands that great administration makes a direct difference to the people we serve.
What You'll Be Doing
- Communicating proactively with candidates throughout their onboarding journey to ensure a smooth, positive experience
- Completing all Safer Recruitment pre-employment checks, including DBS, Right to Work, references and full employment history
- Creating accurate employee records with the correct contracts, locations and management access assigned
- Setting up all relevant systems and ordering equipment such as ID badges and laptops ahead of each start date
- Keeping the onboarding tracker accurate and up to date, with regular progress updates to managers and new recruits
- Escalating any concerns or anomalies in the onboarding process immediately
- Ensuring strict compliance with Data Protection legislation across all activity
- Providing ad-hoc front-office and reception cover, including welcoming visitors and preparing meeting rooms
- Supporting the wider team with additional duties as required
What We're Looking For
- Strong administration skills, comfortable managing high volumes of repetitive tasks accurately and to deadline
- Experience in a similar administrative role, ideally supporting a diverse workforce (desirable but not essential)
- Exceptional attention to detail, able to work accurately at pace without cutting corners
- Resourceful and proactive, with the ability to spot problems early and bring solutions with you
- You demonstrate complete professionalism and discretion at all times, with a genuine respect for confidentiality
- You are committed to upholding Data Protection principles and Safer Recruitment requirements in everything you do
Why Join Us?
You'll be part of a team that takes its responsibilities seriously, and supports each other in doing so. We offer a professional, values-led working environment where your accuracy, reliability and initiative will be genuinely valued.
What We Offer:
- Life insurance (death in service) at 4x your basic annual salary
- Health cash plan via Health Shield (after probation; eligibility applies)
- Training and development, including induction, mandatory training, CPD and further qualifications
- Free holiday accommodation at our company holiday home on the south coast
- Discounts through Blue Light Card and local partner discounts
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), providing free and confidential 24/7 support
- Referral bonus scheme with financial incentives for successful referrals (criteria apply)
- Company pension with an award-winning provider and enhanced employer contributions
- Company sick pay scheme (after 6 months' service)
- Electric car scheme and Cycle to Work as salary sacrifice options
- Employee of the Month and long service recognition awards
- Discounted driving lessons with a local instructor
Equality and Diversity
Amegreen is committed to being an organisation where people can be their authentic selves in a safe and inclusive environment. We are actively building diverse teams and welcome and encourage applicants from all backgrounds. If you require any accessibility adjustments to support your application, please contact us.
Safeguarding
Amegreen Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. Successful candidates will be required to go through a thorough safeguarding onboarding process which includes a full employment history review and an enhanced DBS check. Adherence to Safeguarding and GDPR requirements is mandatory for all employees.