Recruitment Consultant – Perms - Early Years / Childcare

Nexter Ltd; Batley; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Commission uncapped monthly

Career progression

Free on-site parking

Supportive senior management

Job summary

Nexter Ltd is recruiting a Recruitment Consultant for the Permanent desk focused on Early Years / Childcare in the Batley area. You will own the full process from briefing to placement, engaging nursery clients and candidates and driving hard-to-fill hires.

Work alongside an experienced leadership team with an uncapped commission scheme, real progression, and on-site parking at the Birstall office. This role rewards outcomes and talent development within a growing childcare recruitment practice.

Qualifications

• Proven track record in full-cycle recruitment or high-volume sourcing (agency or contingency).
• Ability to source and engage passive candidates.
• Strong phone-based outreach and rapport-building skills.
• Commercial focus with ability to convert interviews into placements.
• Experience or knowledge in Early Years / Education / Healthcare is a bonus.

Responsibilities

• Sourcing and engaging qualified Early Years practitioners using proactive headhunting and multiple channels.
• Conducting phone/video interviews, assessing fit and notice periods, and managing timelines.
• Taking detailed briefs from nursery managers and coordinating interview feedback and placements.
• Marketing high-calibre candidates to nursery groups within commuting distance.
• Maintaining clean candidate records and pipelines in our ATS.

Skills

Recruitment experience

Phone sourcing

Commercial mindset

Self-sufficiency

Early years / childcare knowledge

Tools

LinkedIn

ATS software

Job description

Recruitment Consultant – Perms - Early Years / Childcare

Batley, United Kingdom | Posted on 03/09/2026

Nexter recruits great nursery staff for great nurseries.

Nexter is a specialist childcare and early years recruitment consultancy providing permanent and temporary staffing solutions to private day nurseries, preschools, and early years groups . Built by experienced sector leaders, we are growing quickly and are expanding our dedicated National Permanent Placement Desk to service high client demand .

The Opportunity

Unlike a traditional recruitment role where you spend half your time cold-calling to win vacancies, we have an established, incoming stream of permanent job orders from nursery clients across the country .

The primary challenge isn't finding clients—it is finding, engaging, and securing qualified talent (Level 3 Practitioners, Room Leaders, Deputy Managers, and Nursery Managers) in a talent-scarce market .

You will take full ownership of your permanent desk: qualifying briefs, proactively headhunting passive candidates, running telephone screenings, managing interview feedback, and closing placements .

Key Responsibilities

Active Candidate Sourcing: Go beyond passive job boards by using Boolean search strings, LinkedIn, CV databases, and direct headhunting to engage qualified Early Years practitioners .

Screening & Pipeline Control: Conduct thorough phone/video interviews, assess motivations, and qualify notice periods, salary expectations, and counter-offer risks .

Vacancy & Account Delivery: Take detailed briefs from nursery managers, match suitable candidates, coordinate interviews, and manage the feedback loop promptly .

Speculative Placements: Proactively market high-calibre candidates directly to relevant nursery groups within their commute radius .

ATS Discipline: Keep candidate records, vacancy pipelines, and interview stages clean and up-to-date using our recruitment software .

What We Are Looking For

Recruitment Experience: Proven track record in full-cycle recruitment or high-volume candidate sourcing (agency or contingency background strongly preferred) .

Tenacious Phone Sourcing: Someone who naturally picks up the phone, hunts for passive talent, and knows how to build rapport with candidates who aren't actively applying .

Commercial Mindset: Target-driven, organized, and focused on turning interviews into billable placement fees .

Self-Sufficiency: Comfortable managing your daily pipeline independently without needing hand-holding on the basics of candidate tracking .

Early Years / Education / Healthcare knowledge is a bonus, but commercial resourcing grit and candidate control are what matter most .

What We Offer

• Clear, uncapped monthly commission scheme paid on billed placement fees.
• Real progression as we expand our regional and national operations.
• Free on-site parking at our Birstall office (WF17), directly accessible from the M62/M621.
• A supportive, experienced senior management team focused on real results rather than micromanagement vanity metrics.