Job Description
Contract Type: 12-month Fixed Term Contract
Working Hours: 37 hours per week, Monday–Friday, with flexible and agile working options
Worker Type: Hybrid Worker (Approx. 80% home working)
Salary: Grade E – £27,711 (Level 1) to £30,060 (Level 4) plus pay award pending
Office Location: Nottingham ( Loxley House/ Harvey Rd)
Are you ready to start a rewarding career in recruitment, where you’ll make a real difference to your local community?
We’re looking for an enthusiastic and people-focused Recruitment Facilitator to join our friendly, high-performing team at Nottingham City Council Housing Services. You don’t need previous recruitment experience – just the energy, curiosity, and drive to learn. In return, we’ll support you every step of the way with full training, great colleagues, and meaningful work that helps shape the future of housing services in Nottingham.
About Us
Our Resource and Reward team delivers the full recruitment service for NCC Housing Services, helping managers find and hire great people into a wide range of frontline and office-based roles. We’re proud of our reputation for being professional, approachable, and outcomes-focused. We value fairness, inclusion, and continuous improvement – and we’re excited to welcome someone new to grow with us.
About The Role
As a Recruitment Facilitator, you’ll help deliver a smooth and supportive recruitment process from start to finish. You’ll be:
- Speaking with candidates, hiring managers, and colleagues every day
- Managing recruitment campaigns, arranging interviews, and carrying out pre-employment checks
- Learning how public sector recruitment works – including safeguarding, compliance, and inclusive hiring
- Supporting innovation and improvement in how we attract and engage future talent
- Helping build tools, guides, and training materials to support hiring managers
You’ll be trusted to manage your own workload and take ownership of campaigns, while also contributing to team projects and supporting your colleagues when needed.
This is a hybrid role, with around 80% of your time working from home and occasional days in our offices at Harvey Road (NG8) or Loxley House (NG1), so you'll need to live within a commutable distance.
What We’re Looking For
We’re Not Looking For Perfection – We’re Looking For Potential. You Might Be a Recent Graduate, Returning To Work After a Break, Or Simply Ready For a New Challenge. What’s Essential Is That You’re
- Friendly, confident, and a natural communicator
- Curious and eager to learn – especially about recruitment and HR
- Digitally confident – able to use systems, emails, Teams, and spreadsheets
- Organised, proactive,e and ready to take responsibility
- A team player who thrives in a supportive, collaborative environment
- Committed to fairness, inclusion, and a great candidate experience
- Previous experience in recruitment, HR, or administration would be useful but isn’t required. If you bring the right attitude, we’ll provide the rest.
What You’ll Gain
- Full training and support to build your recruitment knowledge
- Career development opportunities across Nottingham City Council
- Flexible working arrangements to help balance work and life
- A chance to contribute to meaningful public service work
- A supportive and inclusive team that celebrates your progress
Please ensure you demonstrate clearly how you meet the 6 requirements in your CV & supporting document.
You can find the job description for this post here: https://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/media/tzqc2stg/1539-recruitment-facilitator.doc
At Nottingham City Council, we believe that work is what you do, not where you do it. We offer different working arrangements, depending on the role, including hybrid working. Further information on Worker Types and what these mean in terms of how and where you work can be found on the
additional information for applicants page.
Closing Date: 11 August 2025 (midnight) - Please note there may be occasions where we close the advert before the closing date, and we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
Interviews- 15 and 19 August (remotely via Microsoft Teams). Please note this is subject to change
If you have any queries relating to the role or wish to get an update on your application, please email our Housing Services Recruitment team at
[email protected]If you have any technical issues when completing your application, please contact our Employee Service Centre: https://emss.freshdesk.com/support/home
By applying to this job, you agree to our Terms & Conditions.
About Us
Thank you for your interest in working for Nottingham City Council. As one of the largest employers in Nottingham we offer a wide range of roles across a range of services. In return for your skill, drive and commitment to serving the people of Nottingham, we can help you to develop an exciting and rewarding career, with access to the following benefits.
In addition to working within a great team and a competitive salary you will have access to:
- 26 days annual leave (rising to 33 days after 5 years’ service) + bank holidays with the ability to buy additional leave annually
- Access to a generous, defined benefit pension scheme offering 17.9%
- Smart Working – to support your work life balance
- Health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme
- Discounted membership at selected local sports and fitness centres, cinema, shopping and much more!
Nottingham City Council is committed to recruiting a talented workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We are a fair and inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and with different abilities. We recruit for diversity and value difference.
We particularly want to hear from you if you are from Minority Ethnic communities, identify within the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer+ community (LGBTQ+) and if you are Disabled - these groups of people are underrepresented in our workforce, and we’d like to reflect our local population more through our recruitment processes.
We are supportive of flexible working arrangements wherever possible and we would encourage you to discuss this with us during the selection process, should this be something you are interested in.