Medical HR Recruitment Co-ordinator

NHS; Maidstone; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in Maidstone is seeking a Medical HR Recruitment Co-ordinator to manage the recruitment process and provide high-quality support to the medical staffing team. The ideal candidate will have experience in recruitment, excellent IT and communication skills, and the ability to work under pressure. This role offers a hybrid working model, combining remote and on-site work.

Qualifications

• Experience in recruitment, ideally within a Medical HR Department.
• Ability to work effectively under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
• Experience of maintaining confidentiality and handling sensitive information.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the recruitment process is carried out in a confidential manner.
• Support the activities of all Medical recruitment.
• Provide a high-quality, customer-focused medical recruitment service.

Skills

Excellent organisational and interpersonal skills

Good written and verbal communication skills

Ability to absorb new information quickly

Ability to work on own initiative

Willingness to develop new skills

Tools

Trac Software system

ESR/NHS Job sites/e-DBS

IT Software packages

Job description

Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

Medical HR Recruitment Co-ordinator

The closing date is 25 September 2025

This is an exciting opportunity to join the medical staffing team.

As a member of the medical recruitment team, you will ensure the recruitment process is carried out in a confidential, smooth and timely manner.

You will need excellent IT skills, previous experience working in a busy customer-focused environment, ideally in recruitment and/or medical staffing team, and the ability to work effectively under pressure and prioritise workload to meet deadlines and KPIs.

The team is currently based at home for 80% of the working week, with 20% being spent on-site in Maidstone, in accordance with our current hybrid working policy. Travel to other KMPT locations may be required.

Main duties of the job

Medical Staffing is part of the People Team Directorate and is therefore at the centre of organisational changes within the organisation.

The post-holder will be based within the Medical Staffing department, working closely with the Medical HR Recruitment Leads and Deputy Medical Staffing Manager to ensure the provision of a professional, high quality, customer-focused medical recruitment service.

The post-holder will support the activities of all of the Trust\'s Medical recruitment, ensuring all administrative processes are carried out in a timely manner.

About us

Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.

We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.

Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.

We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.

You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.

The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.

Our mission is what we set out to do every day We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people

Our vision is where we want to be in the future To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.

Check out our recruitment videos Recruitment - YouTube

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities of the role.

Here are some clips of our KMPT staff, speaking about their role and why they enjoy working for us.

Working at KMPT (youtube.com)

Qualifications / Training

• Experience of working with IT Software packages
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Willingness to undertake training
• Experience in recruitment, using Trac Software system
• Experience in the use of ESR/NHS Job sites/e-DBS
• Ability to work on own initiative, within guidelines. Due to the diversity of tasks, there is a need to work effectively under pressure and prioritise workload and meet tight deadlines.
• Experience within a Medical HR Department or area of high confidentiality.
• Previous experience of working with senior staff
• Experience of system interfaces.
• Experience of abiding by organisational policies and processes.
• Experience of maintaining confidentiality and handling sensitive information.
• Experience within a Medical HR Department

Skills and knowledge

• Excellent organisational and interpersonal skills
• Ability to communicate at all levels.
• Ability to provide prompt and pragmatic problem-solving advice.
• Excellent attention to detail
• Adaptable to meet changing environments and goals.
• Ability to absorb new information quickly
• Flexible approach to problems and working practices.
• Willingness to develop new skills
• Commitment to equal opportunities.
• Ability to write and present clear, concise and relevant reports to various audiences.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer name

Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust