Safer Recruitment Officer – Young Learners

Job title:

Safer Recruitment Officer – Young Learners

Company

EC English

Job description

Application deadline: 16 February 2024

About EC English Language Centres: EC offers superior English language programmes in the top English-speaking destinations around the world, together with French in Montreal. Our world-class facilities and an outstanding team have allowed us to evolve into a globally recognised and trusted brand. Our vision is to maintain our growth while helping students from all over the world succeed in a global community.

Our team is at the heart of everything we do, and we are proud to have created an environment that will nurture your talent, explore your ideas and recognise your achievements. Together, we turn challenges into new opportunities to help us achieve more. We dream big and we work hard. We want you to dream big too and realise your own ambitions with us.

EC has a young learners division which includes the award winning summer school brand, Embassy Summer with multiple pop up summer schools in the UK, Malta, the US and Canada. Embassy Summer welcomes students from around the world, helping them to improve their language skills, meet new friends and take part in a wide range of activities and cultural excursions that will help them develop important life skills.

Position Summary:

The purpose of Embassy Summer’s policy is to ensure that all recruitment and selection activity is conducted effectively, efficiently, and consistently to achieve positive recruitment outcomes for the business in the UK. The policy confirms a commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment.

The Recruitment team is directly responsible for ensuring that our centres teams are staffed with the appropriate number of effective, qualified, compliant, motivated and trained people that will ensure an industry leading experience for every single one of our students.

Key Responsibilities:

• To support the Company’s Welfare and Safeguarding policy
• To administrate Embassy Summer Safer Recruitment pre-employment vetting, ensuring that full suitability checks are processed, and clearance is obtained for ALL summer staff prior to commencement of employment.
• To collate appropriate identification documents and manage All DBS & Globetex applications as part of the recruitment process.
• To ensure appropriate Letters of Good Conduct are received prior to commencement of employment.
• To obtain references as required to support the pre-employment vetting process, as well as the Risk Assessment and Decision Record forms as required.
• For appropriate candidates, to prepare and present Risk Assessments in a timely manner to the Risk Assessment Panel.
• To update staff on the status of their background checks and encourage ALL staff members to apply to the DBS update service as appropriate.
• To maintain the SCR register
• To assist the Recruitment Manager with the selection and recruitment process as required
• To assist the Recruitment Manager with payroll and ensure staff pay / tax queries are dealt with in a timely manner
• To conduct job interviews on an ad hoc basis

Personal Attributes:

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Self-starter & ability to work independently
• High levels of accuracy & attention to detail
• Ability to remain focused and meet deadlines
• Client focused
• Flexibility & Adaptability

Qualifications Required:

• Highly proficient level of spoken and written English
• Educated to A Level standard or equivalent (Level 3 of Qualifications & Credit Framework)

Experience Required:

• Good understanding of welfare and safeguarding
• Clear understanding of pre-employment screening procedures
• Project management experience
• Understanding of payroll procedures
• Summer school experience

Knowledge & Skills Desired:

• Database management experience
• Good working knowledge of Excel, Outlook and PowerBI

Equality and Diversity:

Equality and diversity are at the heart of everything we do. Our learning opportunities are open to everyone, regardless of their background and circumstances, and we apply the same standards to the staff we employ.

Expected salary

£25000 per year

Location

Brighton

Job date

Wed, 07 Feb 2024 05:01:06 GMT

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