Workforce Manager -.*MUST HAVE NHS EXPERIENCE*

Korn Ferry; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 101,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

Korn Ferry urgently seeks an experienced Workforce Manager/Recruitment & Mobilisation Lead to coordinate a major NHS recruitment and onboarding programme in London. The role supports building workforce infrastructure and onboarding up to 100 employees in the first year, with external administration support and a focus on planning, checks and reporting.

The post emphasizes workforce mobilisation, end-to-end onboarding, compliance with NHS standards, and robust KPI dashboards.

Qualifications

• Significant NHS recruitment or workforce services experience.
• Knowledge of NHS employment checks and safer recruitment requirements.
• Experience coordinating end-to-end recruitment campaigns.
• Experience managing outsourced recruitment providers.
• Strong onboarding, workforce mobilisation and reporting experience.
• Knowledge of workforce planning, establishment control and recruitment metrics.
• Excellent stakeholder management, organisation and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Translate the approved workforce structure into prioritised recruitment plans.
• Coordinate recruitment activity with hiring managers and external delivery partners.
• Track vacancies through approval, attraction, selection, offer, employment checks and start date.
• Own the workforce mobilisation tracker and end-to-end onboarding process.
• Ensure compliance with NHS Employment Check Standards and safer recruitment requirements.
• Maintain accurate establishment, vacancy and position-control information.
• Develop recruitment dashboards covering vacancies, offers, checks, starts and time to hire.
• Identify recruitment risks, dependencies and process blockages.
• Support ESR, NHS Jobs and recruitment process improvement.

Skills

NHS recruitment experience

Workforce planning

Stakeholder management

Onboarding & reporting

Recruitment metrics

Education

CIPD qualification

Tools

ESR

NHS Jobs

Job description

Location: London (2-3 days onsite)

Contract Length: 6-Months initially

Rate: Inside IR35

A newly established national healthcare organisation is seeking an experienced Workforce Manager/Recruitment & Mobilisation Lead to coordinate a major recruitment and onboarding programme.

The organisation is building its workforce infrastructure from the ground up and plans to recruit and onboard up to 100 employees during its first year. With recruitment administration supported by an external provider, this role will focus on workforce planning, hiring-manager support, process control, onboarding assurance and accurate reporting.

Key Responsibilities

• Translate the approved workforce structure into prioritised recruitment plans.
• Coordinate recruitment activity with hiring managers and external delivery partners.
• Track vacancies through approval, attraction, selection, offer, employment checks and start date.
• Own the workforce mobilisation tracker and end-to-end onboarding process.
• Ensure compliance with NHS Employment Check Standards and safer recruitment requirements.
• Maintain accurate establishment, vacancy and position-control information.
• Develop recruitment dashboards covering vacancies, offers, checks, starts and time to hire.
• Identify recruitment risks, dependencies and process blockages.
• Support ESR, NHS Jobs and recruitment process improvement.

Essential Experience

• Significant NHS recruitment, resourcing or workforce-services experience.
• Strong knowledge of NHS employment checks and safer recruitment requirements.
• Experience coordinating multiple end-to-end recruitment campaigns.
• Experience managing or coordinating outsourced recruitment providers.
• Strong onboarding, workforce mobilisation and reporting experience.
• Knowledge of workforce planning, establishment control and recruitment metrics.
• Excellent stakeholder management, organisation and problem-solving skills.

Desirable Experience

• Recruitment delivery at scale.
• ESR and NHS Jobs experience.
• Experience establishing recruitment processes for a new service or organisation.
• Operational HR or Agenda for Change knowledge.
• CIPD, recruitment, project or process-improvement qualification.