Regional Recruiter

Routes Healthcare; Rochdale; Hybrid; GBP 27,000 - 33,000; Full time

Job summary

Routes Healthcare is seeking a Regional Recruiter - Field-Based, Northern England. You will visit new service areas, map the local job market, and build recruitment pipelines from scratch to support live contracts. This 6-month contract offers up to £30,000 per annum plus travel allowances.

You’ll work from Rochdale and travel to nearby towns, reporting to the Head of Recruitment. A full UK driving licence and access to your own car are required, with flexibility to travel and work from the

Qualifications

• 2+ years’ recruitment experience in a similar role – care sector or another hard-to-fill, high-volume field.
• A genuine self-starter who can mobilise a recruitment campaign from scratch.
• Confidence talking to anyone from Jobcentre Plus to college principals.
• Full UK driving licence and access to own car – field-based role requiring travel.
• Live within commutable distance of Rochdale head office.

Responsibilities

• Visiting new service areas to understand the local market first-hand and identify competitors, pay, and candidate sourcing.
• Building geography-specific recruitment strategies for hard-to-fill areas from advertising to community outreach.
• Developing relationships with Jobcentre Plus, colleges, training providers, and community groups.
• Running attraction campaigns and building candidate pipelines, then handing applicants to the central team for screening and compliance.
• Reporting market intelligence and pipeline progress to Head of Recruitment.

Skills

Recruitment experience

Self-starter

Communication

Driving licence

Field-based work

Job description

Regional Recruiter - Field-Based, Northern England

Up to £30,000 per annum + travel allowances | 6-month contract (potential to extend) | Full-time

Not your average recruitment job.

We’re not looking for someone to sit behind an ATS and screen CVs. We’re looking for someone who can land in a town where Routes Healthcare has never operated, work out who’s hiring, what they’re paying, and where the candidates are – and then build a recruitment pipeline from nothing.

Routes Healthcare is a CQC-registered homecare and complex care provider growing across Northern England. Every time we win a contract in a new area, someone has to get boots on the ground and make recruitment happen before the service goes live. That’s this role.

What you’ll actually be doing

• Visiting new service areas to understand the local market first-hand – who the competitors are, what they pay, and where care workers actually look for jobs.
• Building geography-specific recruitment strategies for hard-to-fill areas, from advertising channels down to community noticeboards.
• Getting out and building relationships – Jobcentre Plus, colleges, training providers, community groups.
• Running attraction campaigns and building candidate pipelines, then handing applicants to our central team for screening and compliance.
• Reporting your market intelligence and pipeline progress straight to the Head of Recruitment.

What we need from you

• 2+ years’ recruitment experience in a similar role – care sector or another hard-to-fill, high-volume field.
• A genuine self-starter who can mobilise a recruitment campaign from scratch, without waiting to be told what to do.
• Full UK driving licence and access to your own car – this is a field-based role and you’ll be travelling regularly.
• To live within commutable distance of Rochdale – our head office is here and you’ll be working from it at times.
• Confidence talking to anyone, from a Jobcentre work coach to a college principal.

The honest bit

This is a brand-new role on an initial 6-month contract. If it works – and we think it will – there’s real potential for it to become something longer-term. You’ll be shaping the role as you go, reporting directly to the Head of Recruitment, with the freedom to run your patch your way.

Sound like you? Apply now – we move quickly.