Ronke O Email and Phone Number

An experienced advisor and strategic partner. Strong employee relations skills and general employee lifecycle.Lead on Well-being initiatives and learning and development.Reviewing and rewriting policies and guides.

• Current Chair of Governing Board and working as a member of the school governor team to ensure educational standards are met. • Involved in the recruitment, decisions involving staff disciplinary• Monitoring the school’s progress and setting targets• Sitting in board level meetings involving strategic planning and decisions• Involved in the recruitment and selection process of the new Head Teacher• Bridging the gap between Head teacher and members of staff by helping address grievances• Previous Vice-Chair of Governing Board• Carrying out disciplinary and grievance hearings

• First point of contact for all internal, external system queries.• Monitoring and reporting sickness absence, new starters, leavers and changers on a monthly basis by extracting data from the system in a report format to measure consistency.• Paying high attention to detail in regards to filing all employee records to a high and audit compliant standard in a timely manner.• Guiding and advising managers and stakeholders on issues ranging from capabilities to performance management, recruitment and employee relations• Ensuring that all information is provided before jobs are advertised and recruited to i.e, cost code, job/post numbers, grade, duration, salary and location.• Providing support and proper documentation for the entirety of employee lifecycle, from induction up to leaver stage including internal job changes.• Handling the end to end recruitment process in a very audit compliant manner, ensuring a high standard vetting administration.• Ensuring payroll is actioned every month with high attention to detail, ensuring documentation is audit compliant.• Rewriting all organisational policies including recruitment, sickness, maternity, JD’s and adverts.• Monitoring sickness absences and facilitating formal and informal meetings to tackle and manage absences• Facilitating and supporting managers in disciplinary and grievance meetings.• Training and empowering managers on systems usage for recruitment and correct record of information i.e absence, performance management, etc.• Managing restructures and TUPE including various terms and conditions.• Recognising the use of electronic filing while promoting a paperless environment.• Always promoting diversity and inclusion and guiding managers and stakeholders, ensuring they are all doing the same.

I was responsible for coordination of the Council’s apprenticeship programmes, contributing to the achievement of targets and priorities, and helping people to find good jobs and access rewarding career opportunities. Establishing apprenticeship opportunities with a focus on increasing the quantity and quality of apprenticeships provided.

Assisted and supported the Resourcing Manager in developing and delivering services in line with corporate plan and people strategy across the council with 10,000 employeesCarried out general recruitment for the whole council, up to 10 a week from advert to inductionSetting up job campaigns and managing recruitment lifecycle up to induction and beyond. Ensuring there is no delay between these periods in order to maintain interest and ensure a successful cycleProviding expert advice to managers, candidates and members of staff, confidently, based on the knowledge of organisational policiesOrganised and planned recruitment clinics for managers and service usersEnsuring new starters are set up on Payroll using Resource LinkCollecting and collating data regarding resourcing and talent gapsProviding technical support to users of the candidate management systemProviding advice and guidance to employees on the redeployment policy, procedure and systemSupporting People Services project as and when required

• I provided a comprehensive recruitment service for the Trust, ensuring that all legal requirements and HR best practice are adhered to at all times.• I provided expertise and guidance to recruiting managers in specific recruitment activities• Provided employee relations advise to new and existing staff, ensuring a consistent and effective process throughout the onboarding and offboarding process• I planned and organised my workload to ensure that weekly and monthly targets are met, ensuring that managers keep to timescales required for each recruitment stage in order to meet set KPI’s• Dealt with end to end recruitment, ensuring all pre-employment procedures and checks are carried out appropriate for appointed candidates• Ensured that the system is updated with all necessary information prior to offers of employment• Posting job adverts on NHS jobs and TRAC and linking them to ESR• Processed weekly and monthly payroll on time in accordance with payroll policies and procedures• Prepared and issued all recruitment paperwork ensuring the recruitment SLA’s are met.• Ran IAT search for existing NHS to determine continuous service• Recorded all appropriate information on to the Electronic Staff Record forwarding to the Trust’s payroll provider relevant papers and preparing an electronic personnel file of EDM• Resolved issues arising from offers and contracts of employment• I sat on interview panels as a panel member or HR observer as required• Set up Corporate Inductions for new starters

• • I administered the end to end recruitment process from recruitment planning and advertising to contract of employment and induction booking for new staff.• I delivered a customer focused, high quality and very professional service, in line with Trust policy.• I ran recruitment open days in accordance with relevant operational processes and procedures• I decide starting salaries in accordance with the Agenda for Change pay banding• I undertake pre-employment meetings with candidates, supporting them with the completion of their new starter paperwork and completing appropriate checks and verification of identification and right to work documents in line with Trust policy and legal requirements • I also advised recruiting managers on a daily basis, of any considerations they may need to make for new recruits in response to information disclosed throughout the recruitment process including reasonable adjustments, criminal disclosures or references • I provided guidance and support to recruitment managers and candidates throughout the recruitment process • I referred cases that required assigning certificates of sponsorship in line with Trust policy and UKBA requirements • I provided guidance and support on and process Right to Work applications (i.e. Certificates of Sponsorship) • I supported recruitment advisors and recruitment team leaders to process recruitment relating to specific projects including international recruitment and graduate recruitment • I recognise when to refer complicated recruitment cases to managers• Fully engaged member of a very busy Recruitment Services team, supporting colleagues as necessary • I deputised for recruitment advisors as and when required• I ensured that weekly targets were met• I sometimes help cover reception as and when needed

• First point of contact for HR related queries • Supporting in preparing and issuing the relevant documentation pertaining to offers of employment, employment contracts, and changes in terms of employment or alterations to confidential personnel information.• Assisting in organising all induction and training requirements to ensure all staff works to consistently high levels.• Provide administrative supports to HR team; distribution of information; organising and taking minutes at meetings for the HR Advisors/HR Manager, collating and filing all annual salary review and appraisal paperwork.• Coordinating the screening of applications and creating assessment grids for short listing suitable candidates • Issuing interview letters and other standard letters including general correspondence with candidates throughout the recruitment process • Greeting visitors/candidates arriving for interviews, ensuring relevant legal compliance documents are photocopied and scanned • Completing pre-appointment checks for new staff and taking up references verifying specific documents such as passports and immigration status • Providing inductions to staff, interns and volunteers • Completing equal opportunities statistics at the end of each recruitment process • Ensuring that both electronic and paper filing systems are up to date and comprehensive at all times • Providing general / recruitment advise via telephone and e-mail in response to enquiries from the public, applicants, staff and managers • Research for organisational policies • Ensuring the benchmark reward survey is updated and accurate • Other administrative duties as and when required