Resourcing Operations Team Leader

Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust; Guildford; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare trust in the UK is seeking a Resourcing Operations Team Leader to manage a team of recruitment professionals. The role involves overseeing recruitment processes, ensuring compliance with NHS standards, and offering professional guidance on employment law. Suitable candidates should have experience leading recruitment teams, strong HR system knowledge, and excellent communication skills. The position offers opportunities for professional development and a chance to impact patient care positively.

Benefits

Comprehensive health and well-being programme

Commitment to professional development

Qualifications

• Proven experience in leading a recruitment team and delivering high-quality resourcing services.
• Strong knowledge of HR systems and recruitment best practices.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining accuracy.

Responsibilities

• Manage and develop a team of resourcing professionals.
• Oversee end-to-end recruitment processes and ensure compliance.
• Provide professional advice on recruitment and employment law.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Organisational Skills

Influencing

Education

CIPD qualification or equivalent experience

Tools

ESR

NHS Jobs

Job description

At Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust, we believe that every role contributes to delivering compassionate, safe care every day. As our Resourcing Operations Team Leader, you'll play a pivotal role in ensuring we have the right people, in the right place, at the right time—helping us provide outstanding patient care.

What You’ll Do

• Lead and Inspire: Manage and develop a team of resourcing professionals, including international recruitment advisors and administrators.
• Drive Excellence: Oversee end‑to‑end recruitment processes, ensuring compliance with NHS Employment Check Standards and UKVI regulations.
• Shape the Future: Implement new ways of working, update HR policies, and contribute to innovative recruitment projects.
• Be the Expert: Provide professional advice to managers on recruitment, employment law, and visa queries.
• Champion Candidate Experience: Ensure every applicant receives a professional, positive, and timely service.
• Ensure the provision of robust resourcing processes so that every candidate experience is dealt with in a professional and confidential manner.
• Lead the Resourcing officers to provide a comprehensive, high‑quality recruitment administration service to all managers and Trust staff.
• Support, develop and maintain recruitment via NHS jobs, HR Payroll and ESR.
• Deliver recruitment training as required and work as part of the Human Resources team to provide an effective and efficient recruitment and staff support service.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in leading a recruitment team and delivering high‑quality resourcing services.
• Strong knowledge of HR systems (e.g., ESR, NHS Jobs) and recruitment best practices.
• Excellent communication, influencing and organisational skills.
• CIPD qualification or equivalent experience in HR/recruitment.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining accuracy and professionalism.

If you’re passionate about people, thrive in a fast‑paced environment, and want to make a real impact, we’d love to hear from you.

Working for our organisation

Royal Surrey is a compassionate and collaborative acute and community Trust. Recognising that our 5,000 colleagues are our greatest strength, we offer a comprehensive health and well‑being programme along with a commitment to developing and advancing your career. Our diverse and welcoming Royal Surrey family will ensure you feel valued from your initial interview through your entire tenure.

We are clinically led and provide joined‑up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute‑hospital site is in Guildford with community hospital sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh. We provide adult community health services in homes across Guildford and Waverley.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has given us an overall rating of Outstanding.

Royal Surrey has a strong reputation and history to build on. We are proud of our achievements and we are investing in our colleagues through our commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than £45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years. There has never been a better time to join us.

Although it isn’t the Trust’s normal practice, adverts may close early, so you are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.

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