Recruitment Team Leader

Salary £34,434 - £39,152 per year

Contractual hours 37

Basis Flexi Hours

Package We are pleased to offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your wellbeing. You can read about them on our Why work for us pages.

Job category/type Administration, Customer Services, Equalities, Human Resources

Date posted 29/04/2026

Job reference REQ0000778

Are you great at managing a team while delivering excellent customer service? Do you have good attention to detail and ability to use IT systems? Are you interested in recruitment and in helping a more diverse group of people into employment at the Council?

We are looking for a Recruitment Team Leader to manage our brilliant team of Recruitment Officers. This is an exciting time to work in recruitment at the council as we have launched a new recruitment system which is supporting more inclusive recruitment improving what we do so that we reach and can recruit from all the diverse communities in the city. As an organisation, we continue to work on our Fair and Inclusive Action Plan, our Anti-Racist City strategy and our Accessible City strategy as we pursue our aim to have a workforce that reflects the diversity of our residents.

As the Team Leader, you will be responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of the team, handling complex recruitment requests and leading on sponsorship processes as well as supporting members of the team with their development and wellbeing.

Interview date: To be confirmed

There’s plenty more detail below and in the attached job description but, if you have any questions before applying, please email me (Jenny Holmes, Recruitment Manager, [email protected] ) to set up a time for an informal discussion. About the job

The recruitment team support hiring managers across Brighton \& Hove City Council with roles ranging from library officers to lawyers, tree surgeons to toilet cleaners, plasterers to planning professionals! As the team leader, you will play an important part in managing the team’s resources to deliver an efficient and effective recruitment service across all our permanent, seasonal and fixed term roles ensuring we are able to recruit the right people for the right job.

As the Recruitment Team Leader, you will:

• manage, motivate and develop a team of Recruitment Officers ensuring the delivery of an effective and efficient recruitment and onboarding service
• contribute to the development and implementation of sound transactional recruitment processes that enable us to recruit a diverse and skilled workforce
• act as an escalation point for manager and applicants needing professional support, advice and guidance for complex recruitment situation
• oversee our background checking processes including right-to-work, sponsorship and DBS

You’ll be someone who:

• has experience of managing a busy team
• has great customer service experience with a commitment to ensuring that our customers and their needs are at the heart of what we do
• can apply these skills to our recruitment process
• has good communication skills so that you can work collaboratively with a wide range of partners in a way that is accessible and inclusive
• has experience of working with IT systems and applications to track processes
• is able to work independently and plan and prioritise work in a very busy and fast paced environment.

In this work, you will play a key role in delivering excellent customer service to the managers in one of the largest employers in the city, creating opportunities for a wider group of people to work with us. You will be encouraged to keep up with best practice and to develop your technical and management skills through access to a wide range of training as well as collaboration with internal and external partners.

You will be working with a dedicated recruitment team as well as colleagues across Human Resources and our Payroll and Systems Teams and will be able to join one of our four employee networks. We work flexibly in a hybrid way with people working a mix of days at home and in the office.

We look forward to receiving your application. Encouraging a diverse workforce

Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton \& Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, female or trans.

Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our fair and inclusive actions, our anti-racism strategy and the work we are doing to encourage a diverse workforce (brighton-hove.gov.uk).

Why work for us?

As a council, we want to:

• be connected
• be confident
• be innovative and creative
• be diverse and inclusive
• be healthy and psychologically safe

For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us which gives details of our wellbeing support, our benefits including leave and pensions as well as details of our training and development.

How to apply

Please read our Apply for a job at the council pages carefully. They give you all the guidance you need to complete your application as well as information on what will happen after you’ve submitted your application and at interview.

As part of your application, you will need to provide your education and career history and answer some application/shortlisting questions. Your answers to the application/shortlisting questions are the most important part of your application as they will be used in the shortlisting process to assess whether you meet the essential requirements for the role that are set out in the person specification and to decide whether you should be offered an interview. Before you start your application, please read our Shortlisting questions guidance (brighton-hove.gov.uk) as this gives important advice which will increase your chance of success in the shortlisting process.

AI advice for candidates

We are interested in hearing about your experience and skills in your own words. While we value people who know how to use AI, we ask that you minimise using it in your application.

We are keen to hear how your experience and skills align to our values and the skills and experience needed to perform well in our roles with clear real examples from you. To support you in this, we have guidance on using the STAR model which can help you ensure you are telling us your whole story. We also provide clarity on the skills we are looking for in our adverts and in the job description/person specification attached to each job advert.

All the applications we receive are read by at least two hiring managers and we do not use AI in this process. Our experience of reading applications is that those that have heavily used AI contain generic paragraphs that are strikingly similar to other applicants’ responses. This makes it extremely difficult to differentiate between applications, and doesn't give us enough evidence of your individual skills. There is a risk that we will therefore not be able to shortlist you. Instead, we recommend you ensure your application stands out by presenting clear examples of your actual skills and experiences in your own words.

Additional information

Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.

We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining. Your contractual location will be the designated council office for your team and travel to and from your contractual location would be at your own expense.