Established / Permanent Recruitment and onboarding

You will find all the information needed to recruit a permanent member of staff in to your team in these pages.

A permanent employee is defined as ‘a person employed directly by the Council (i.e. that has a Council contract of employment and is paid through our PAYE payroll) whose contract does not specify an end date’. Permanent employees can be part-time or on a shift or rota pattern.

Use the following links for recruitment to Fixed Term, Apprentice, Casual and Agency roles.

There are a number of key steps to ensure that recruitment to a position within your team runs smoothly. If you attended the 2019 Recruitment and Selection Training each element of the recruitment process and supporting documentation would have been discussed with you.

If you would like to view the training, or process map click the links below.

If you did not attend the Recruitment and Selection Training the process map below and supporting documentation found in these provides a step by step guide to recruiting to your new role. If you have any questions or need further support please contact HR Admin

New Starter Learning Activities

The below programme should be followed by all new starters to the Council. Please ensure that these e-Learning courses are ...

Onboarding

To start your candidate’s on boarding process you will need to log them on the HR Servicedesk found on Molly/At ...

Managing Your Verbal Offer

Offer Preparation Before you make your offer make sure you are prepared and have all of the information that the ...

The Interview

Interviewing is about providing the right environment to allow someone to perform at their best. It is also about ensuring ...

Interview Preparation

Invite to Interview The recruiting manager will need to contact applicants directly to invite them for interview. This invite to ...

Application Closing Date and Shortlisting

Application Closing Date All your applications, regardless of the advertising channels used, will be sent through to the jobs inbox ...

Advertising

Raise an online Recruitment Request - HR Helpdesk A HR Helpdesk recruitment request must be raised when you are ready ...

Review Your Job Description and Person Specification

Writing your Job Description and Person Specification Are you replacing the role like for like or does the role need ...