Recruitment Specialist - Care Sector

Recruitment SpecialistCare Sector London GBP52,000 Hybrid

As an experiencedRecruitment Specialist in the Care Sector, your role will be crucial in shaping and implementing effective recruitment strategies.

This role offers hybrid working; you will need to work in the office 2 days a week and the rest from home. However, during your probation and training, you will be asked to come to the office full time. My client wants you to feel comfortable and confident in your role.
Here are the key responsibilities and essential experience required for this exciting opportunity.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Registered Managers: Work closely with Registered Managers to fill vacant hours in care homes reducing agency spend.
• Innovate Recruitment Methods: Introduce innovative recruitment methods to maintain required staffing levels, especially in challenging markets.
• Tracker Tool and Reporting: Develop and maintain a tracker tool for recruitment activity, producing regular reports.
• Budget Efficiency: Assist care homes in staying within agreed staffing budgets by efficient recruitment, reducing agency spend, and minimising time to hire.
• Leverage Social Media: Work with the Head of Marketing and Communications to fully utilise relevant social media channels.
• Engage with Professionals: Collaborate closely with job centres, colleges, hospitals, and other professionals linked to recruitment.
• Diversity & Equality Commitment: Demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to Diversity & Equality.

Essential Experience Required:

• Health and Social Care Resourcing: Prior experience in resourcing within the Health and Social Care sector.
• Legislation and Selection Techniques: Knowledge of relevant legislation, best practice recruitment, and various selection techniques for assessing suitability. Solid understanding of CQC and Safeguarding compliance
• Non-EEA Candidate Recruitment: Familiarity with recruiting non-EEA candidates and working with a Sponsorship License.
• End-to-End Recruitment Management: Experience with candidate experience and full end-to-end recruitment management.
• Creative Candidate Attraction: Ability to creatively source suitable candidates for challenging-to-fill vacancies.
• High Volume Recruitment: Demonstrated success in delivering high-volume recruitment campaigns.
• Independence and Self-Motivation: Comfortable working independently and self-motivating.
• Effective Communication and Relationship Building: Build effective and credible relationships both internally and externally.
• Creative Problem-Solving: Excellent creative and problem-solving skills.
• Methodical Work Approach: Ability to work methodically, taking responsibility for your own work, and collaborating as part of a team.
• Continuous Improvement Drive: Driven to achieve continuous improvement.