# Division C Recruitment and Retention Administrator Lead

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
- **Town:** Southampton
- **Region:** South East
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Administrative and IT
- **Grade:** Band 5
- **Salary:** £32,073 - £39,043 per annum, pro rata
- **Contract type:** 12 months (12 month secondment)
- **Employment type:** Part time - 30 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-06-21T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-06-08T14:13:12.258Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8066815
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8066815?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.uhs.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us.

Please see below for the detailed job description of the role.

### Main duties of the job

We have an exciting opportunity for someone to support recruitment, retention and education across Division C at University Hospitals Southampton.

You will be supporting all teams across the division which includes Southampton Children's Hospital, Women and Newborn, Clinical Support, Pathology, Radiology and the Outpatient administration centre.

This role is vital in supporting the Division and Care Groups with recruitment, retention and education requirements, working with teams in helping implement recruitment and retention initiatives as well as coordinating and supporting education admin requirements.  You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team across the trust working to trust policy as well as recruitment regulations ensuring an inclusive working environment.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

### Your responsibilities - What you'll do:

### What we're looking for:

- Be the initial divisional point of contact for all staff on all recruitment, retention, and workforce issues, contributing to the workforce planning process implementing processes that are responsive to national and local policy drivers and sensitive to individual professional issues and responsive to clinical / local need and diversity of staff groups in the Division.
- To maintain current knowledge of vacancies, workforce redesign and planning for all staffing groups across the division analysing and utilising recruitment, retention and workforce redesign data alongside the Divisional Education Lead and disseminating as necessary.
- To support the Corporate Retention and Recruitment Agendas and Strategies within the Trust, ensuring processes are completed within the Division and in agreed timescales and are responsive to local issues and demands and are managed with professional insight into skill mix issues.
- To provide administrative and organisational support to the Education Lead for Division C coordinating and planning of all education initiatives and duties and ensuring Statutory and Mandatory training is completed as per Trust Policies.
- The post holder will support the DGM in the preparation, collation of data and documents for CQC and other regulatory bodies’ compliance.

We are looking for someone with excellent communication skills verbal and written, you will need to be able to record, analyse and present data to care group, divisional and trust teams.   You need to be educated to degree level or have significant experience in a similar role.   You will need to have excellent organisational skills, prioritising work as required.  This role will require you to work as part of a multidisciplinary team but also to work autonomously.  This role requires you to work trust wide, being the link between central teams and across the division.  You may be required to support recruitment initiatives attending recruitment events.   As part of this role, you will support the annual training needs analysis programme collecting information from across the division, reporting through Governance processes and ensuring submission within the agreed timescales.

### For further details / informal visits contact:

Catherine Roberts, Matron \[email protected\]

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## Job Details

University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us.

Please see below for the detailed job description of the role.

## Job Description

We have an exciting opportunity for someone to support recruitment, retention and education across Division C at University Hospitals Southampton.

You will be supporting all teams across the division which includes Southampton Children's Hospital, Women and Newborn, Clinical Support, Pathology, Radiology and the Outpatient administration centre.

This role is vital in supporting the Division and Care Groups with recruitment, retention and education requirements, working with teams in helping implement recruitment and retention initiatives as well as coordinating and supporting education admin requirements. You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team across the trust working to trust policy as well as recruitment regulations ensuring an inclusive working environment.

## Responsibilities

Be the initial divisional point of contact for all staff on all recruitment, retention, and workforce issues, contributing to the workforce planning process implementing processes that are responsive to national and local policy drivers and sensitive to individual professional issues and responsive to clinical / local need and diversity of staff groups in the Division.
- To maintain current knowledge of vacancies, workforce redesign and planning for all staffing groups across the division analysing and utilising recruitment, retention and workforce redesign data alongside the Divisional Education Lead and disseminating as necessary.
- To support the Corporate Retention and Recruitment Agendas and Strategies within the Trust, ensuring processes are completed within the Division and in agreed timescales and are responsive to local issues and demands and are managed with professional insight into skill mix issues.
- To provide administrative and organisational support to the Education Lead for Division C coordinating and planning of all education initiatives and duties and ensuring Statutory and Mandatory training is completed as per Trust Policies.
- The post holder will support the DGM in the preparation, collation of data and documents for CQC and other regulatory bodies’ compliance.

We are looking for someone with excellent communication skills verbal and written, you will need to be able to record, analyse and present data to care group, divisional and trust teams. You need to be educated to degree level or have significant experience in a similar role. You will need to have excellent organisational skills, prioritising work as required. This role will require you to work as part of a multidisciplinary team but also to work autonomously. This role requires you to work trust wide, being the link between central teams and across the division. You may be required to support recruitment initiatives attending recruitment events. As part of this role, you will support the annual training needs analysis programme collecting information from across the division, reporting through Governance processes and ensuring submission within the agreed timescales.

Catherine Roberts, Matron \[email protected\]

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## Person Specification

### Trust Values

**Essential**

- Patients First
- Working Together
- Always Improving

### Qualifications, knowledge and experience

**Essential**

- Degree in HR or other relevant qualification at this level e.g. CIPD level 5, or able to demonstrate equivalent experience of working in a relevant role to this level
- Experience of recruitment including attraction, shortlisting, interviewing etc and awareness of the underpinning legislation and admin to support this

**Desirable**

- Evidence of further development or relevant work experience related to role e.g., recruitment, resourcing, equalities, diversity, and inclusion (EDI)
- Agenda for Change job evaluation training
- Training and advising others in recruitment and related topics
- Knowledge and understanding of recruitment and retention issues in a clinical healthcare environment

## Documents

- [job description & person specification (docx, 139.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10357749)

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