Recruitment Assistant (Chelmsford)

Location of Role: Chelmsford 

Advert Closing Date: 12/10/2026 

Starting Salary: £27,204.00 (pro-rata for part-time vacancies)

Part/Full Time: Full Time 

Contract Type: Permanent 

Working Pattern: Mon-Fri 

Weekend/Evening Working: No 

We are inviting applications from motivated and enthusiastic individuals who are seeking an excellent opportunity to join our Recruitment Team as a Recruitment Assistant, based at the Essex Police College in Chelmsford.

This is a varied and rewarding role at the heart of our work to attract, assess and recruit Police Officers and Police Staff for both Kent Police & Essex Police. You will support all stages of the recruitment and selection process, including maintaining accurate computerised records, helping plan and deliver assessment centres, and ensuring recruitment activity is carried out efficiently and to a high standard.

This role also involves close teamwork; not only within the Recruitment Team, but also through regular collaboration with colleagues across other internal departments, hiring managers, and Commands. Building strong working relationships will be key to ensuring a smooth and effective recruitment process.

We are looking for candidates who can demonstrate experience in an administrative role and who are educated to GCSE level (or equivalent). Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications is essential, and experience using HR systems, such as SAP would be an advantage.

Ideally, you will also bring experience of large-scale recruitment processes or of organising outreach events aimed at attracting potential applicants. Excellent communication skills are vital, as you will regularly update managers, internal and external assessors, and candidates throughout each stage of the recruitment cycle.

The successful candidate will be self‑motivated, adaptable, highly organised, and able to manage their workload independently, while also contributing positively within a supportive and collaborative team environment.

This is primarily a Monday to Friday role, covering the hours of 08:00-17:00 on a rota basis, however, some evening and weekend working will be required. There may also be occasional travel to Kent as part of our collaborative recruitment function.

For further information please contact Allison Bentley on corporate.recruitment.essex@essex.police.uk

Essex Police offer incremental increases within this salary band, therefore the salary for this position will rise to a maximum of £29,859.00.

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Your application for this role will be shortlisted on the content you provide within the “reason for application” question, within the application form itself. CV’s, covering letters or attachments are not included in the shortlist. Within your “reason for application” answer, please refer to any experience, skills, and abilities you feel you have that will make you suitable for this role, based on the role criteria stated in the job advert or job description. Please provide as much detail as possible as insufficient content may mean you do not meet the shortlisting criteria, however please note this question is limited to 9000 characters and this system will count spaces and blank lines as characters. This count may differ from the Microsoft Word word count function therefore you may wish to use a different online character counter to check the characters used.

All of our posts require a level of vetting and security clearance. During the recruitment process you will be sent vetting information forms to complete. 

Kent Police and Essex Police welcomes applications regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, sex, or employment status.

Please let us know if you require extra support at any stage of the application process, or for further information regarding this position, please email us at recruitment.business.services@ecis.police.uk stating ‘Application Support and Adjustments’ in the title of your email. Alternatively, you can call us on 01245 452833. Where appropriate we will make adjustments to the selection process, working arrangements and/or the working environment provided it is reasonable in all the circumstances to do so.

If you’re not from the UK, you must be a resident in the UK and have lived here continuously for the last three years. You must also be free from restrictions with indefinite leave to remain. If you’re from the UK you must have lived here continuously for the last three years. This doesn’t apply to those serving abroad in the British Armed Forces.

As a Disability Confident Leader we:

• have subjected our Disability Confident self-assessment to external challenge and validation
• are taking an active leadership role in encouraging and helping other employers on their journey to becoming Disability Confident.

Diversity, Equality and Inclusion are central to the values of our organisation. At Essex Police we value and embrace the unique experiences, identities and abilities that each of us bring to our roles. We strive to empower everyone to bring their authentic self openly and safely to work.

Through the dedicated commitment of our support networks, DE&I team and wider HR departments, we are on a journey to embed our DE&I commitments, ensuring Essex Police is an employer of choice; where everyone feels included.

Essex Police and Kent Police are an equal opportunities employer. Communications may be recorded for monitoring purposes.