Regional Recruitment Lead

Job title: Regional Recruitment Lead
Branches covered: Dartford, Chingford, Ipswich, Norwich & Halesworth
Salary: £30,000pa
Hours: Monday – Friday 9-5
Regional travel to designated branches will be expected

Life at Prestige:

People are at the very heart of Prestige, and we want to make life better for them. As a Regional Recruitment Lead, you’ll grow and develop in an exciting business that puts people at the centre of everything we do.

Prestige Nursing & Care has provided home care for over 75 years and we have 30 local offices in England and Scotland. Our aim is to lead the care industry by providing high quality, personalised and specialist services to our clients.

Purpose of the Job:

At Prestige Nursing & Care we pride ourselves on our ability to provide specialist Homecare Services for individuals of all ages living within their own homes. We are committed to ensuring each individual receives a person centred, professional service through our local teams of professional carers and registered nurses.

• The role of the Regional Recruitment Lead is to manage and oversee the resourcing and recruitment of all new care colleagues.
• To focus on identifying, sourcing and nurturing talent to deliver the highest standards of care. As a leading strategic focus around recruitment of talent to support and deliver growth for your region.
• To attract and source new candidates, seeing them through the pre-screening process leading to an interview with our branch teams.
• To work with the Regional Onboarding Compliance Officer and the Regional Recruitment team to ensure candidates are fully compliant and ready to work in a swift and safe manner.
• To build mutually beneficial relationships with clients (Branch teams) and candidates, and work as part of a passionate team to maximise our performance and business growth.
• To build key internal and external customer relationships and have an extensive knowledge of current market conditions and trends.
• To be responsible for developing business to meet targets defined by the Head of Recruitment alongside branch requirements whilst achieving qualitative and legislative standards.

Main Responsibilities:

• To implement a recruitment plan to manage the full recruitment process for your designated branches.
• Ensure you proactively attract, identify and source talent through various channels.
• Ensure the candidate journey is seamless, supported, safe and efficient.
• Ensuring we have a candidate centric approach to recruiting and you maintain a high application to start rate ratio.
• Manage and coordinate specific branch recruitment campaigns, including advertising campaigns, outreach projects, local engagement activities and events to achieve measures and build commercial networks.
• To build networks within local communities, education facilities and career guidance services to generate more recruits.
• Regional travel to designated branches will be an expectation depending on branch growth focus.
• Ensuring current advertising channels are continually refreshed and competitor research is carried out and shared monthly.
• Support business development and marketing activities in conjunction with the Regional Recruitment team, Recruitment Marketing Manager, and branch teams to identify and secure new business within the designated client groups in line with the company’s business plan.
• Develop an excellent understanding of the carer colleague role to support the candidate experience and be relatable during the recruitment process.
• Carry out recruitment in accordance with ISO, CI, and CQC requirements, working with the Regional Onboarding Compliance team for the necessary DBS, reference and other background checks as required by CQC/CI.
• Regular use of the internal database “IRIS” to monitor, update and encourage a speedy recruitment journey from start to compliance.
• To support with the roll out of a retention plan for the region and nurture and detail retention activities
• Work within agreed deadlines and targets
• To work as part of the team to support the success of the region.
• This list is not exhaustive, and you will be expected to complete any reasonable tasks as requested by your line manager.

Accountabilities:

• Ensure all recruitment strategies are optimised and adhered to.
• Ensure a safer recruitment culture is maintained throughout the business.
• Support all branches to increase branch growth.
• Ensure a continuous swift and smooth time to hire.
• Support all branches with a continuous increase in employee retention.

Person Specification:

Essential

• Have an adaptable, confident, and flexible attitude.

• Be strategic, methodical, logical and detail orientated.

• Be results driven with proven experience of consistent delivery against agreed targets.

• Have excellent communications skills and the ability to engage with a range stakeholder.

• Have effective time management skills and the ability to priorities effectively.

• Good knowledge of our company’s services, value proposition and USPs

• Ability to work at pace.

• 2 years commercial or inhouse recruitment experience

• Outstanding people skills, with the ability to influence others and establish effective working relationships.

• A team player, but with the ability to work under own initiative to deliver to deadline.

• Attention to detail and strong organisational skills.

Desirable

• Experience of recruiting within social care or health and have good sector knowledge.
• Have knowledge of and operate in line with ISO, CI, and CQC requirements/legislation.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of job boards and professional social sites such as Totaljobs, LinkedIn, indeed etc

Competencies & Behaviours:

• Communicating effectively.
• Building successful relationships.
• Driving for results.
• Exhibiting an empathetic approach.
• Self-assurance.

What we offer:

• A competitive salary
• 28 days annual leave (includes Bank Holidays) increasing every year by 1 to the maximum of 33 days over 5 years’ service (pro rata’d)
• An additional day off for your Birthday
• Blue Light Card
• Refer with the Care Friends mobile app and earn extra money
• Cycle to Work scheme for our Head Office, Regional and Branch staff
• Long Service Awards
• Workplace Pension
• Employee assistance programme (EAP) – confidential phone line and online support and resources available to you and your loved ones 24/7
• Supportive working environment with ongoing learning and development opportunities.
• A friendly, agile and flexible working culture
• A range of Family Friendly Benefits – designed to offer you more support, flexibility, and additional time off when you most need it.
• Annual leave purchase (ALP) scheme

Please note:

In line with CQC & Care Inspectorate regulations, we require and will undertake Enhanced DBS/PVG, Right to Work, Reference and Employment History checks in line with Government guidelines for this role and safer recruitment best practice.

Whilst we endeavour to keep the recruitment process as short as possible, due to the nature of these important checks there may be extension to timelines.

All our clients are equally entitled to have their needs met in a safe, fair and balanced way. Prestige Nursing & Care colleagues are responsible for promoting Equal Opportunities for all and for challenging any behaviour or practice which discriminates against any client or colleague on the grounds of race, religion, disability, age, gender, sexual orientation, identity or any other perceived difference.

We reserve the right to close this position early.

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