Recruitment Consultant

NHS Professionals; Hemel Hempstead; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 38,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous annual leave

Talent development

Pension

Life Assurance

Group Income Protection

Wellbeing Programme

Employee Assistance Programme

Discounts platform

Job summary

NHS Professionals is seeking a motivated recruitment professional in Hemel Hempstead to strengthen relationships with NHS Trusts and internal teams while delivering high-quality recruitment services. You will attract, screen and place healthcare professionals, and build robust talent pipelines for current and future opportunities.

You'll work closely with compliance and onboarding teams, support new starters, and represent NHSP at events to expand networks and talent pools.

Qualifications

• Experience in healthcare recruitment or NHS staffing preferred.
• Strong relationship-building and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to screen candidates and manage compliance documentation.
• Proactive sourcing and candidate engagement experience.
• Excellent communication and organisational skills.

Responsibilities

• Build strong relationships with NHS Trusts and internal stakeholders to understand recruitment needs and provide a responsive, high-quality service.
• Attract and engage candidates through advertising, networking, NHSP brand promotion and proactive sourcing.
• Screen and assess applicants to ensure they have the right skills, experience and compliance documentation for Bank membership and Trust placements.
• Develop and maintain strong talent pipelines, proactively matching suitable candidates to current and future opportunities.
• Build relationships with existing Bank Members, understanding their availability, preferences and experience to identify suitable placements.
• Work closely with the Compliance Team to support candidates through the onboarding journey, providing guidance and a positive candidate experience.
• Support new starters through welcome and first-week calls, helping to ensure they have a smooth transition into their role.
• Attend Trust and external events to promote opportunities, build networks and attract new talent.
• Monitor recruitment activity and contribute to key team measures including time to fill, time to offer and utilisation of existing Bank Members.
• Provide regular updates and recruitment insight to Team Managers and maintain professional relationships across the organisation.

Skills

Relationship building

Candidate sourcing

Stakeholder management

Communication

Organisational skills

Job description

About The Role

Are you ready to take the next step in your healthcare recruitment career? Do you enjoy building relationships, finding great people and making a real difference to candidates and clients? Are you looking for an opportunity to develop your recruitment skills, broaden your healthcare experience and take ownership of the recruitment journey?

We’re looking for a motivated and people-focused Recruitment professional to join our team at NHS Professionals.

In this role, you’ll work closely with NHS Trusts, Bank Members, candidates and internal teams, helping to identify recruitment opportunities and connect the right people with the right roles and placements.

What you’ll be doing

• Build strong relationships with NHS Trusts and internal stakeholders to understand recruitment needs and provide a responsive, high-quality service.
• Attract and engage candidates through advertising, networking, NHSP brand promotion and proactive sourcing.
• Screen and assess applicants to ensure they have the right skills, experience and compliance documentation for Bank membership and Trust placements.
• Develop and maintain strong talent pipelines, proactively matching suitable candidates to current and future opportunities.
• Build relationships with existing Bank Members, understanding their availability, preferences and experience to identify suitable placements.
• Work closely with the Compliance Team to support candidates through the onboarding journey, providing guidance and a positive candidate experience.
• Support new starters through welcome and first-week calls, helping to ensure they have a smooth transition into their role.
• Attend Trust and external events to promote opportunities, build networks and attract new talent.
• Monitor recruitment activity and contribute to key team measures including time to fill, time to offer and utilisation of existing Bank Members.
• Provide regular updates and recruitment insight to Team Managers and maintain professional relationships across the organisation.

About The Candidate

To be successful in this post you will need to:

• Monitor flexible worker utilisation and Trust shift fulfilment to ensure the flexible workers and Trusts needs are met
• First fix resolution for customer queries, logging all queries accurately on the system and ensuring any that are passed on are to the correct department and well signposted
• Monitor flexible worker feedback ensuring it is consistently high and any areas of improvement are acknowledged and actively worked on as part of the local continuous improvement initiative
• Ensuring all flexible worker contact and enquiries are responded to quickly and effectively.
• Working closely with the compliance team to qualify and support workers through the compliance process
• Daily contact with on‑site client‑based teams to update on availability of workers and matching client requirements
• Identifying trends and client requirements for workers to support resourcing and marketing

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

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 CodeQuality Markand 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.