Hands-on leadership | Team development | Genuine autonomy | Business growth
Take ownership of recruitment performance while remaining close to delivery. As Recruitment Manager, you will lead and develop a team of four internal recruiters while personally recruiting key vacancies across healthcare, clinical, management and non-clinical functions.
This is an opportunity to join a growing specialist complex care provider supporting adults with physical disabilities, mental health needs and learning disabilities in their own homes and communities.
Reporting directly to the Operations Manager and CEO, you will have genuine autonomy over recruitment delivery, candidate attraction, marketing initiatives and performance reporting, while earning commission on your own successful placements.
Package & Benefits
£40,000 to £45,000 per annum.
Performance-related bonus.
Commission on your own successful placements.
Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm.
No weekend working.
Fully office-based in Chelmsford.
Direct access to the Operations Manager and CEO.
Genuine autonomy to shape recruitment strategy, marketing and team performance.
The Role
As Recruitment Manager, you will:
Lead, coach and develop a team of four internal recruiters, setting clear KPIs and driving individual and team performance.
Personally recruit alongside your team for Healthcare Assistants, Support Workers, Nurses, management and non-clinical positions.
Manage the full recruitment lifecycle, from candidate attraction and sourcing through to interview, offer and onboarding.
Build proactive talent pipelines to support existing services, new complex care packages and future business growth.
Lead recruitment marketing initiatives across job boards, social media, referrals and other candidate attraction channels.
Work closely with operational teams to understand immediate and future workforce requirements.
Produce meaningful recruitment reports for senior leadership, covering vacancies, time to hire, candidate conversion and recruiter productivity.
Identify recruitment challenges, remove bottlenecks and introduce practical solutions to improve performance and candidate experience.
About You
To succeed as Recruitment Manager, you will need:
Previous experience managing or leading a recruitment team.
Proven hands-on recruitment experience with a strong record of successful delivery.
Experience managing multiple vacancies in a fast-paced recruitment environment.
The ability and willingness to personally recruit alongside your team.
Experience setting targets, monitoring KPIs and improving recruiter performance.
Strong coaching, leadership and people-management skills.
A good understanding of recruitment marketing, job boards, social media and candidate attraction strategies.
The confidence to use recruitment data and reporting to drive better results.
Experience within healthcare, social care, complex care or high-volume recruitment would be highly advantageous, particularly experience recruiting Healthcare Assistants, Support Workers or Nurses.
If you are an experienced Recruitment Team Leader, Talent Acquisition Manager or Recruitment Manager looking for greater ownership, direct access to senior leadership and the opportunity to combine team management with hands-on recruitment delivery, this could be an excellent next step.
As Recruitment Manager, you will have the opportunity to directly influence recruitment strategy, develop a high-performing team and support the continued growth of specialist community complex care services.
An up-to-date CV is not essential for an initial confidential conversation.
For more information or a confidential discussion, please contact Ehsan on (phone number removed).
LICEA
Salary description
£35000.00 - £45000.00 per year