Head of Recruitment

NHS Professionals Limited; Hemel Hempstead; In loco; GBP 90.000 - 120.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Generous annual leave

Pension

Life Assurance

Wellbeing Programme

Employee Engagement platform

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NHS Professionals Limited is seeking an experienced Recruitment Solutions Lead for the Doctors Direct team in the UK. You will shape recruitment and workforce solutions, lead onsite and central teams, and drive commercial performance.

You will work with senior clients and internal stakeholders to grow accounts, attract talent and improve recruitment outcomes. This senior leadership role requires a proven track record in recruitment leadership, strong commercial acumen, and experience delivering

Competenze

• Senior recruitment or workforce solutions leader with proven track record.
• Experience leading onsite and central recruitment teams and managing client relationships.
• Strong commercial results focus with budgeting and P&L ownership.

Mansioni

• Lead and develop high-performing recruitment teams.
• Drive fill rates, retention and workforce utilization for Doctors Direct.
• Own budgets, P&L and income growth targets.
• Build relationships with senior client stakeholders and internal teams.
• Develop attraction and recruitment strategies to support growth.
• Use data and market insight to improve performance and identify opportunities.
• Identify opportunities for account growth and new revenue streams.
• Collaborate with Sales, Marketing and other teams to win new business.

Conoscenze

Leadership

Recruitment Leadership

Stakeholder management

Budget & P&L

Data-driven

Commercial acumen

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About The Role

About the role

We are looking for an experienced and commercially driven Recruitment Solutions Lead to join our Doctors Direct team and play a key role in shaping our recruitment and workforce solutions.

This is a senior leadership role responsible for leading onsite and central recruitment teams, driving candidate attraction, retention and fill rates, and delivering strong commercial performance. You will work closely with senior clients and internal stakeholders to develop recruitment solutions, grow accounts and identify new opportunities.

About you

You will be an experienced recruitment or workforce solutions leader with a proven track record of leading teams, managing client relationships and delivering commercial results.

This is a Fixed Term Contract until October 2027.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead, develop and motivate high-performing recruitment teams.
• Drive fill rates, recruitment, retention and workforce utilisation across Doctors Direct.
• Take ownership of budgets, P&L, income growth and performance targets.
• Build strong relationships with senior client stakeholders and internal teams.
• Develop candidate attraction and recruitment strategies to support growth and improve the candidate experience.
• Use data and market insight to identify opportunities and improve business performance.
• Identify opportunities for account growth, new revenue streams and service development.
• Work collaboratively with Sales, Marketing and other teams to support new business and client implementation.
• Continuously improve recruitment processes, reducing time to hire and enhancing the experience of clients, candidates and Bank Members.

Why join us?

This is an exciting opportunity to make a real strategic impact within Doctors Direct, shaping recruitment solutions, developing teams and helping to deliver workforce solutions that make a difference across the NHS.

If you are a commercially minded recruitment leader who enjoys developing people, building strong client partnerships and delivering measurable results, we would love to hear from you.

To be successful in this post, you will need:

• Senior experience within recruitment, workforce solutions, staffing or a similar environment.
• Strong commercial and financial acumen, including experience managing budgets and/or P&L.
• A proven track record of improving recruitment performance, fill rates and retention.
• Strong leadership, stakeholder management, influencing and negotiation skills.
• A data-driven and strategic approach, with the ability to turn insight into action.
• Experience developing recruitment, candidate attraction or account growth strategies.
• A collaborative, innovative approach and a strong focus on client and candidate experience.

About Us

In return for your commitment, we will offer you some fantastic benefits:

• Generous annual leave allowance with the ability to buy and sell - 27 days per year, plus bank holidays
• A commitment to talent management & development
• Values Star of the Month! - Our star of the month award enables you to recognise colleagues or teams that have gone the extra mile and they could win £100 worth of shopping vouchers
• Pension - We'll contribute up to 10% towards your pension if you join our stakeholder pension scheme
• Life Assurance
• Group Income Protection
• Wellbeing Programme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Employee Engagement & discounts platform

About Us:

NHS Professionals (NHSP) run the largest NHS flexible staff bank, placing highly skilled temporary workers in NHS Trusts to meet their short, medium and long-term needs. Uniquely we are owned by the Department of Health and Social Care and we therefore reinvest any surplus we make directly back into the NHS.

NHSP is committed to being an inclusive employer of choice, working with a variety of partner organisations which provide valuable insights and best practice. We are accredited as a Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute and recognised as one of the Sunday Times Best Places to Work. As part of our ongoing commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion, we have been awarded the Race Equality Code Quality Markand and are a signatory of Disability Confident, Menopause Pledge and Mental Health at Work Commitment.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI)

As part of our commitment to EDI, as well as having a number of related staff support networks and calendar of activities, NHS professionals is also working to the following aims:

• To ensure we become an inclusive recruiter of choice, encompassing a fully diverse workforce, which truly reflects society
• To proactively embed the EDI agenda, in a meaningful way, in all that it does
• To create a psychologically safe environment in which everyone can thrive and be at their best
• To actively support and Include disabled people as part of our commitment to the Disability Confident scheme, including offering an interview to applicants to who meet the minimum criteria and choose to apply under the scheme.

We particularly welcome applications from people from minority groups and will provide support to ensure an equitable process.