Talent Acquisition Advisor

at  NHS Business Services Authority

We are open to applications from across the UK, as long as you are are open to travelling to Newcastle for meetings as required (please reach out to the TA team to discuss in more detail).
The Talent Acquisition team supports the organisation in attracting the best talent to the NHS Business Services Authority, enables our existing colleagues to progress their careers, and helps build and influence our employer brand.
You will support the Talent Acquisition Manager in providing solutions that allow our organisation to attract, develop and retain talented individuals.
Collaboration is key and as a forward-thinking, pro-active individual, you will use your experience in talent acquisition to work with the People team and wider business to implement initiatives that are effective, future focused and take a whole system approach. You will play a key role in developing our attraction agenda, employer brand, and our Employee Value Proposition (EVP).
What do we offer?
27 days leave (increasing with length of service) plus 8 bank holidays.
Excellent NHS pension
Flexible working (we are happy to discuss options such as compressed hours)
Flexi time
Hybrid working model (we are currently working largely remotely)
Career development
Active wellbeing and inclusion networks
NHS Car lease scheme
What will you do?
Work collaboratively with business areas as well as the People team to understand the business talent acquisition needs and deliver proactive solution.
Support the Talent Acquisition Manager, owning the end-to-end recruitment and attraction agenda for the NHSBSA. This will include developing innovative resourcing strategies, embedding these within the business, with continual review and benefit realisation.
Working with our Colleague Experience team, supporting the Talent Acquisition Manager to develop our pathways into work for the NHSBSA, ensuring these are inclusive and take into account our current and future workforce requirements.
Build active internal and external networks/relationships/partnerships within the NHS and wider organisations, to share working practices and build innovative ideas, enabling the Talent Acquisition team to be more effective.
Working for the NHSBSA
We know it’s important for you to feel that you’re not only part of a great team, but part of a community. We have a range of colleague networks to get involved in, including Wellbeing and Inclusion, Environment and Armed Forces. Our Lived Experience networks cover BAME, Disability, LGBTQ+ and Women.
We are committed to being a flexible employer and are currently largely remote working. The office base for this role is Newcastle upon Tyne and we do ask for flexibility to attend when needed for meetings.
Here at the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA), what we do matters.
 We manage the NHS Pension scheme, process prescription payments and much more. Our services are used by NHS organisations, contractors and the public: we take pride in being part of something so meaningful, that touches millions of lives.
 Just as we design our services around the needs of our customers, we place our people at the heart of our organisation. That’s why when you join us, you’ll be empowered and given the right support to help your career grow.
 As one of the UK’s Best Big Companies to work for, we’re all connected to our values: Collaborative, Adventurous, Reliable and Energetic. We care about our people, our purpose, and your progress.
We strive to offer a fantastic colleague experience, where every voice is heard, and every colleague is supported and respected. Wellbeing, diversity and inclusion is at the centre of this, so when you join us, you can connect with our Lived Experience Networks who help us to bring our authentic selves to work.
We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and circumstances. We are committed and proud to be a flexible employer and will endeavour to offer a working pattern that suits you wherever possible, whether that be hybrid working, flexible hours, job sharing and more.
 Ready to join us on our journey to be a catalyst for better health? Apply today and see where the NHSBSA can take you.
We are people connected to care.
The Talent Acquisition team supports the organisation to attract the best talent to the NHSBSA, enables our existing colleagues to progress their careers, and helps build and influence our employer brand.
As a Talent Acquisition Advisor, you will support the Talent Acquisition Manager in providing an innovative talent acquisition agenda that allows us to attract, develop and retain talented individuals, enabling our organisation to compete in the market to achieve its strategy through its people.
You will be forward-thinking, pro-active, and take an evidence-based approach to your work. You will work collaboratively with the business and wider People team to implement talent acquisition initiatives that are effective, future focused and take a whole system approach. You will play a key role in developing our attraction agenda, employer brand, and our EVP.
For further details on all essential and desirable criteria please see the attached Job Description.

1. Provide an excellent and proactive talent acquisition service to the business. This will involve working collaboratively with business leaders and key members of the People team to understand the business talent acquisition needs and delivering proactive solutions and opportunities.
2. Apply talent acquisition knowledge to business challenges, building commercial acumen to proactively support leaders in the delivery of the NHSBSA strategy and the people elements within this.
3. Work with both business leaders and the People team to gain a full awareness and understanding of all current talent acquisition activities that occur within the NHSBSA and enable the centralised sharing of best practice from these activities across the business progressing a whole system view.
4. Support the Talent Acquisition Manager, taking ownership of key elements within the end-to-end recruitment and attraction agenda for the NHSBSA. This will include developing innovative resourcing strategies and embedding these within the business, with continual review and benefit realisation.
5. Developing best-in-class recruitment practices, with a key focus on the recruitment, induction and onboarding stages. Working with members of the wider people team and internal customers/departments (including shared services), develop continual improvements to the initial stages of the employee life cycle that enables us to attract, engage and retain colleagues in the NHSBSA.
6. Support and lead the development of early career pathways externally, including apprenticeships, graduate opportunities, and other early careers pathways.
7. Support the development of the career pages on the NHSBSA’s new external website from a talent acquisition perspective, ensuring it promotes our offering and our employer brand and allows us to attract talented individuals to our organisation.
8. In conjunction with our Diversity and Inclusion team, support the Talent Acquisition Manager to develop our pathways into work for the NHSBSA, ensuring these are inclusive and take into account our current and future workforce planning requirements.
9. Ensure all advice provided is compliant with employment legislation, NHS employer guidance and internal policies and procedures.
10. Continually develop your professional knowledge and skills by keeping up to date with external trends and best practice in the areas of Talent Acquisition and HR more broadly. This will include keeping up to date on relevant employment legislation and NHS developments, providing advice and interpretation on the implications of such changes, and cascading this knowledge.
11. Work collaboratively with the wider HR team to achieve our strategic people aims and provide a best-in-class colleague experience. This includes building effective working relationships with the HR Shared Service’s team.
12. Build active internal and external networks/relationships/partnerships within the NHS and wider organisations, to share working practices and build innovative ideas, enabling the Talent Acquisition team to be more effective.
13. Building our employer brand by being an ambassador for the NHSBSA though networking, speaking at events and partner relationships.
14. Being an active member of the wider HR team, continually supporting team development and challenging the status quo to ensure a consistent, value adding HR provision to leaders and colleagues