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communication throughout their recruitment journey.\nProduce and present regular performance reporting, providing clear insight into recruitment activity, pipeline, productivity, risks and opportunities.\nLead regular 1:1s, performance reviews and development conversations, supporting individuals to achieve their potential and progress their careers.\nEnsure recruitment activity meets NHS Employment Check Standards and all relevant statutory, mandatory and data protection requirements.\nSupport recruitment events and campaigns, ensuring candidate information is captured effectively and followed through to maximise recruitment outcomes.\nAct as an escalation point for the team, resolving issues quickly and working collaboratively across the business to protect client and candidate experience.\nWhat we’re looking for\nWe’re looking for an experienced recruitment professional who is equally comfortable leading people, managing performance and engaging with clients.\nYou’ll be someone who can turn data into action, challenge constructively and create an environment where people understand what is expected of them and are supported to deliver it.\nIdeally, you’ll bring:\nPrevious experience leading and developing a recruitment, resourcing or talent acquisition team.\nA strong track record of managing teams against KPIs, targets and service levels.\nExcellent coaching and people-management skills, with experience of managing performance and developing individuals.\nStrong recruitment knowledge, including candidate attraction, sourcing, screening, talent pipelining and placement.\nConfidence working with clients and senior stakeholders to understand requirements and develop recruitment solutions.\nStrong commercial and operational awareness, with the ability to balance service quality, productivity and cost.\nExperience using data and management information to understand performance and make informed decisions.\nExcellent communication, influencing and relationship-management skills.\nA continuous improvement mindset and the confidence to challenge existing ways of working.\nStrong organisation and the ability to manage competing priorities within a fast-paced environment.\nExperience within healthcare recruitment would be beneficial, but strong recruitment leadership, people management and a track record of delivering results are equally important.\nWhy join NHS Professionals?\nAt NHS Professionals, recruitment has a direct impact on the ability of our NHS partners to access the skilled workforce they need.\nThis role offers the opportunity to lead an established recruitment team while having genuine influence over how we attract talent, improve performance and respond to changing client requirements.\nYou’ll have the opportunity to lead people, shape recruitment strategy, work directly with key stakeholders and deliver measurable results within an organisation supporting NHS services across the country.\nIf you’re a recruitment leader who enjoys developing people, improving performance and turning workforce challenges into recruitment solutions, we’d love to hear from you.\nAbout The Candidate\nTo be successful in this post, you will need to:\nDemonstrate proven experience leading, coaching and developing a recruitment or resourcing team.\nHave a strong track record of delivering recruitment targets, KPIs and service levels within a fast-paced environment.\nBe confident using recruitment data, management information and performance reporting to identify opportunities and drive improvements.\nDemonstrate excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build effective relationships with NHS Trusts, Client Services and senior leaders.\nHave a strong understanding of candidate attraction, sourcing, screening, recruitment processes and candidate pipeline management.\nDemonstrate a commercial and continuous improvement mindset, with the ability to improve productivity, efficiency and service delivery.\nHave excellent communication, organisational and problem-solving skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities.\nBe committed to delivering a high-quality candidate and client experience while ensuring recruitment activity meets relevant compliance, employment check and data protection requirements.\nIf you are passionate about recruitment, enjoy developing people and have the leadership skills to deliver outstanding recruitment outcomes, we would love to hear from you.\nAbout Us\nIn return for your commitment, we will offer you some fantastic benefits:\nGenerous annual leave allowance with the ability to buy and sell - 27 days per year, plus bank holidays\nA commitment to talent management & development\nValues 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\nPension - We’ll contribute up to 10% towards your pension if you join our stakeholder pension scheme\nLife Assurance\nGroup Income Protection\nWellbeing Programme\nEmployee Assistance Programme\nEmployee Engagement & discounts platform\nAbout Us:\nNHS 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.\nNHSP 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 aTop Employer by the Top Employers Institute and recognised as one of the Sunday Times Best Places to Work. 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