Recruitment Specialist

2 weeks ago


Alcester, United Kingdom Helping Hands Home Care Full time
Job Description

Role: Recruitment Specialist – Live in Carer recruitment

Location: Hybrid, based out of Alcester 2-3 days per week with occasional travel

Salary and benefits: Up to £35,000 basic, depending on experience, 23 days annual leave, blue light card plus other benefits


About us


Helping Hands are the UK’s most trusted home care provider, and we’re passionate about offering an industry-leading home care service. We’ve been providing home care for over 30 years, so we know what it takes to deliver exceptional care. Our live in carers are always on hand to provide our customers with dedicated support when they need it, allowing them to remain comfortable and independent at home.


The role


Reporting into a Recruitment Manager, you will partner with our live in carer leadership teams to effectively attract & retain the right people into our live in carer roles across the UK. Proactively exploring and creating new talent avenues and maximising external recruitment events and partnerships, you'll generating a more diverse workforce to best support our customers with their live in care needs.


What you’ll do


  • Work with leaders to identify specific recruitment requirements and to advise and agree on specific recruitment solutions
  • Represent Helping Hands externally in local market areas at Recruitment events, etc to increase exposure to our live in carer offering
  • Source great candidates directly and effectively through new, innovative, and existing sourcing methods as well as proactively find new talent pools including passive candidates
  • Identify opportunities to continually improve our approach to recruitment and the overall process (including identifying any best practice external insights and trends) to benefit all stakeholders
  • Assess candidate suitability, including preliminary interviews and screenings and advise leaders on approaches to further selection
  • Where needed, to support on recruitment assessment centres and partner with the business to devise alternative assessment strategies
  • Provide specialist recruitment advice, guidance & support to leaders & candidates throughout the recruitment process (up to & including onboarding)
  • Agree, own and maintain a targeted recruitment plan to consistently deliver volume live in carers weekly, working in partnership with the leaders, flagging concerns and successes of different methods of recruitment and attraction approaches
  • Effectively and continually leverage technology and input accurate data into our recruitment systems at all times
  • Generate data, insights & reports for key stakeholders to drive appropriate decision making and action


Who you are


You are an experienced recruiter who I comfortable working with senior stakeholders, ideally having worked in the care industry previously, although this is not essential. You will be a natural problem solver, confident thinking of creative sourcing avenues and be proactive, raising awareness of our offering and build future talent pipelines.


  • Demonstrate outstanding interpersonal, communication, and influencing abilities to foster collaborative relationships
  • Exhibit strong organisational and planning skills, with a capacity to manage competing priorities under pressure
  • Display confidence and proficiency in delivering presentations to small audiences internally, and be proactive in organising and attending external events to do so
  • Adaptability and flexibility to effectively navigate diverse responsibilities and tasks
  • Demonstrate a solid understanding of recruitment processes and best practices, including use of online marketing and search tools such as Job Boards, and basic Search Techniques utilising Candidate Databases
  • Highly competent in sourcing strategies and building and maintaining talent pools
  • Proficient in IT, including Microsoft programmes, with prior experience using Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS).
  • Committed to delivering high-quality work with meticulous attention to detail
  • Possess a proactive and adaptable mindset, with a willingness to continuously enhance skills and knowledge
  • Able to work independently under pressure to deliver set targets within specific timescales


Helping Hands is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive workforce as we believe this develops a comfortable working environment for all our staff. All applications will be treated fairly in line with our Equality and Diversity Policy.



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