Role: Recruitment Manager
Department: HR and Learning
Location: Carbrook, Sheffield
Salary: £38,169 - £43,668
Hours: 37
Contract Type: Permanent
In this role you will be responsible for leading the attraction, recruitment and selection processes process to ensure the force attracts and hires the best candidates. You will be responsible for the operational delivery against the workforce planning establishment targets for Police Officer, Police Staff, Volunteer and any other recruitment required by the force.
Key responsibilities:
- Develop, implement and manage recruitment delivery plans.
- Implement changes and outputs from priorities set by SYMCA, SCT, HMICRS and the Home Office.
- Create and implement effective recruitment strategies to attract high quality candidates and ensure recruitment processes align with force goals and comply with police national selection and legal requirements.
- Lead on large scale recruitment campaigns for both police officers and police staff.
- Lead the recruitment commitment to diversity and inclusion through use of our employer brand, website and social media.
- Advise and maintain recruitment policies that promote an inclusive and respectful workplace culture.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with hiring managers and other internal stakeholders.
- Advise and support the creation of job advertisements.
- Provide professional advice on the ORACLE system.
- Develop measures to monitor, review, performance manage and update the recruitment service delivery.
- Utilise and develop recruitment metrics and dashboards on ORACLE.
- Utilise Talent Pools, building and creating a talent pool.
- Develop recruitment outreach initiative programmes and events.
- Develop the use of diverse interview panels.
- Support Staff Network groups.
- Lead, motivate and performance manage the recruitment and selection team.
Skills and experience:
Qualified to level 5 and chartered member of CIPD.
- Proven experience in a recruitment position, in a fast-paced high-volume environment delivering large scale recruitment scale recruitment campaigns.
- Strong understanding of employment law, awareness of current and future regulation and law, how to apply it and mitigate risk.
- Skilled in setting function, team and individual objectives, assessing progress, identifying emerging risks, issues and opportunities, and taking corrective steps as required to ensure that the right results are achieved.
- Ability to use critical thinking to assess risk and analyse available data.
- Has the ability to travel within and outside the force area as required.
Skills and experience as documented in the role profile need to be evidenced in your application to be considered for interview.
For more detailed information relating to the role, skills and experience for this role, please click here to view the role profile.
What we offer:
We offer generous entitlements and supportive policies to enable a better work-life balance, some of which are listed below:
- A highly competitive salary and access to a generous pension scheme
- Generous annual leave allowance
- A wide range of family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
- Flexible working arrangements including flexi-time and hybrid working
- A transparent and collaborative team culture underpinned by our core values of Fairness, Integrity & Trust
- Comprehensive range of development and leadership courses to develop your career with South Yorkshire Police
- Employee Assistant Programme (accessible 24/7) offering confidential support and advice
- Flexible lifestyle benefits such as: Blue Light Card, Company Shop, Cycle to work scheme
- Committed to embedding sustainability: South Yorkshire Police Sustainability Strategy 2020-2025 (yhrn.police)
- Membership to the Sports and Social Club
- Access to a wide range of staff support groups and networks
Eligibility:
Applicants must meet the minimum requirement checkable history criteria, which must be taken into account for individuals applying to work with South Yorkshire Police in any capacity. A minimum checkable history of 5 years is required for this role and successfully undergoing recruitment vetting procedure is a pre-requisite of employment with South Yorkshire Police.
Appearance & Standards:
South Yorkshire Police is committed to striking a proportionate balance between self-expression and the need to maintain role sensitive professional standards in dress and appearance. Officers, staff, and volunteers of South Yorkshire Police are permitted to have tattoos visible whilst on duty provided the tattoo is not considered to be unacceptable or otherwise inappropriate. Tattoos will be reviewed as part of the recruitment and selection process.
South Yorkshire Police’s overarching aim is to deliver an excellent police service to support safer communities. The public’s assessment of our excellence is influenced by the level of trust and confidence in us, as an organisation and as individuals. In comparison to the general public, police officers and police staff are held to a higher standards of behaviour and accountability. In applying to join the police, applicants are accepting of these higher standards and understand the implications on their right to privacy.
South Yorkshire Police’s Key Values:
At South Yorkshire Police we have 3 key values which run through everything we do Fairness, Integrity & Trust, the attached document details the key behaviours we expect all employees to adhere to.
Smarter ways of Working:
South Yorkshire Police is committed to developing working practices which assist staff to balance their personal and professional lives, whilst meeting the needs of the organisation. This in turn enables SYP to provide an outstanding service to the community.
There are 3 different categories as part of this which are: Fixed, Field and Hybrid.
This role has been evaluated as a hybrid role.
Hybrid: Applicable when the work can be undertaken at any location, whether that be a SYP building or from home.
Contact details:
For further information about the role, please contact: Rachael Greenfield by email Rachael Rachael.Greenfield@southyorkshire.police.uk
Closing Date: 25th March 2026
Closing dates are not normally extended, other than in exceptional circumstances and agreement is made between the Recruitment Manager and the Line Manager for the role.
Candidate Information:
Please note that, should you be successful at the interview stage and before appointment, the relevant pre-employment checks are required. These include references, medical clearance, vetting clearance and sickness absence criteria check.
Diversity & Inclusion:
Applications are particularly welcome from female and ethnic minority candidates.
It is really important to us that the department represents the community we serve, in order for us to provide the best service, utilising a range of backgrounds, experience and skills. We support and value all officers and staff and the unique experiences they bring to the role. We strongly encourage and welcome applications from these valuable underrepresented groups.
If you are from an underrepresented group and want to find out more about the support we can offer, please contact our dedicated team on positiveaction@southyorks.pnn.police.uk
In addition, we will look to support anyone who requires Part Time/Job share working hours.
Documents to Review:
For the Police Staff Recruitment Vetting Handbook - Please Click here
For Application Guidance and Tips - Please Click Here
For the FIT Values of South Yorkshire Police - Please Click Here
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