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Welcome to the HS2 Talent Community

HS2 is one of the UK’s most ambitious infrastructure programmes, and their people play a vital role in shaping how it is delivered. Everyone at HS2 contributes to setting high standards and expectations, which is why they invest in developing colleagues at every level. They have created a dedicated leadership framework to support and develop their people — helping them build the skills and behaviours needed to succeed in a complex, high-impact environment.

Developing Leadership and Their Values

HS2’s culture is built around four core values:

• Safety

• Respect

• Integrity

• Leadership

These values guide how they work, how decisions are made, and how teams collaborate.

How Candidates Are Assessed

Their values and behavioural framework forms a key part of the recruitment process. This means they look beyond experience to understand how candidates work — ensuring behaviours align with the values that define HS2.

Careers at HS2

All opportunities shared through this Talent Pool are permanent roles within HS2.

Public Sector Resourcing (PSR) is managing the recruitment process for these roles on behalf of HS2. By joining this Talent Community , candidate details will be held by PSR and used to match individuals with relevant permanent opportunities.

Why join the HS2 Talent Community?

By registering, candidates will:

• Be considered for current and future permanent opportunities

• Stay up to date with HS2 recruitment news and updates

Register Your Interest

Complete your details to join the HS2 Talent Community and hear about relevant opportunities.

[CWS&RPO] What type of employment you are interested in?

[CWS&RPO] Application Date

DP Retention Start Date

Legal First name

Should match the document that proves your right to work in the UK (e.g. passport or Biometric Residence Permit etc.).

Legal Last name

Should match the document that proves your right to work in the UK (e.g. passport or Biometric Residence Permit etc.).

Preferred name

Mobile number

City

Postal code

Please indicate when you are available from

Please indicate your expected Salary Rate Band

Are you already a civil servant, or employed by a Civil Service Commission accredited public body?

Experience

Please tell us which areas you have experience in - maximum of 3:

How did you hear about us?

Upload your CV

(pdf/doc/docx/txt)

Guaranteed Interviews

PSR is proud to support our customers in meeting their commitments to the Disability Confident scheme and/or their signatory pledges to the Armed Forces Covenant by ensuring eligible applicants are guaranteed to be interviewed by Hiring Managers. Please note that not all of our customers offer this scheme; you can find out more about our customer commitments on our website. To be eligible, you must meet the minimum or essential criteria for the role that you are applying for as detailed within the job advertisement and ONE or more of the below criteria:

• Have a visible or non-visible disability, long term medical condition, mental health condition, neurodivergence or learning difficulties or meet any other criteria as detailed within the Equalities Act 2010. We do not have an exhaustive list but examples could include dyslexia, epilepsy, autism, chronic fatigue or schizophrenia.

• Have served in the Armed Forces (otherwise known as a veteran) OR currently a spouse or partner to a serving member of the Armed Forces

In cases where we receive high volumes of applicants who meet the eligibility criteria for this scheme, only candidates who meet the essential and desirable criteria for the vacancy as detailed in the job description will be interviewed. We will notify you if this scenario applies.

Please let us know if you meet the criteria for this scheme by choosing the most appropriate declaration from the drop-down list below:

Please confirm your employment status

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

The Government is committed to having a truly diverse workforce and a culture of openness and inclusivity as a means of delivering better outcomes to the citizens they serve. When they draw on the talents of a workforce with a diverse range of experience, skills, and backgrounds, they deliver better services for everyone.

As part of this ongoing commitment, we have developed a set of questions to help us to understand the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) profile of candidates that use our services.

You are under no obligation to provide this information and can select the 'prefer not to say' option for each question. Your responses will remain confidential and will be anonymised and aggregated when used for analytical purposes.

What is your legal sex, as shown on your official documents?

A question about gender identity will follow

Is the gender you identify with the same as your legal sex?

What is your sexual orientation?

Which period were you born in?

Choose one option that best describes your national identity and ethnic group

Do you consider yourself to have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010?

What is your religion or belief?

Are you located in Northern Ireland?

Do you look after, or give any help or support to, anyone because they have long-term physical or mental health conditions or illnesses, or problems related to old age? (Exclude anything you do as part of your paid employment)

Are you part of the Armed Forces community?

Socio-Economic questions

**The next 8 Socio Economic background questions are all optional – should you wish NOT to answer please select No and click Submit**

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