Job summary
Resourcing Lead - Band 6 (CAMHS)
An exciting opportunity to make a real impact in mental health services.
We are pleased to offer an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Resourcing Recruitment Lead to join our Recruitment Team. This pivotal role will focus on supporting CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services), ensuring that recruitment efforts align with workforce needs and service priorities across our seven service lines.
This is a role where you can truly make a significant difference by helping to attract and retain the right people, ensuring children and young people receive the care they deserve.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will:
- Be responsible for managing up-to-date vacancy data and ensuring appropriate action is taken to reduce vacancies and minimise agency spend.
- Work closely with CAMHS service leads to develop and implement innovative recruitment and retention strategies, enabling the Trust to compete effectively for hard-to-fill roles.
- Collaborate with Workforce Partners to align recruitment efforts with workforce planning and forecasted service demands.
- Lead on creative and strategic planning for recruitment initiatives, with a focus on safer staffing in line with the Trust's nursing strategy.
- Provide expert advice and guidance on recruitment, retention, and onboarding processes.
-Proactively support the CAMHS service in building a skilled and compassionate workforce capable of delivering high-quality care.
About us
West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse providers of mental health, community and social care in the UK.Our 3,982 staff care for people in hospital and in the community, helping them to recover and go on to lead full and productive lives. We aim to be the best organisation of our kind in the country.
We provide care and treatment for more than 800,000 people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow, delivering services in the community (at home, in GP surgeries and care homes), hospital, specialist clinics and forensic (secure) units.
We're rated good overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Together, we're committed to promoting hope and wellbeing, working with patients, service users, carers, families and partners across the communities we serve. We are keen to ensure that our workforce reflects the community it serves, particularly in terms of ethnicity, gender, disability, LGBTQ+ and experience of mental illness.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Support the Recruitment & Retention Project Lead in delivering the recruitment and retention strategy for CAMHS.
- Work alongside the Project Lead to develop and refine recruitment processes that ensure the Trust attracts and retains staff with the right skills and values.
- Develop proactive recruitment plans to manage vacancy levels and reduce reliance on costly temporary staffing.
-Collaborate with Recruitment & Retention Project Lead and Workforce Partners to design tailored recruitment strategies for CAMHS.
- Identify and resolve process blockages to enable timely onboarding of staff.
- Influence and support service managers in implementing workforce resourcing strategies that align with operational needs and service delivery models.
- Lead assessment centres and interviews for both clinical and non-clinical roles.
- Innovate recruitment approaches for hard-to-fill posts, including AHP and nursing roles.
- Build external partnerships (e.g., with accommodation providers) to support recruitment and staff retention.
- Explore and implement incentives, such as Golden Hellos or relocation support, for particularly challenging vacancies.
- Take responsibility for managing the end-to-end recruitment process for all new starters within CAMHS.
For more details, please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
We look forward to hearing from applicants who are ready to bring energy, innovation, and a strategic mindset to a critical area of our workforce.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Support the Recruitment & Retention Project Lead in delivering the recruitment and retention strategy for CAMHS.
- Work alongside the Project Lead to develop and refine recruitment processes that ensure the Trust attracts and retains staff with the right skills and values.
- Develop proactive recruitment plans to manage vacancy levels and reduce reliance on costly temporary staffing.
-Collaborate with Recruitment & Retention Project Lead and Workforce Partners to design tailored recruitment strategies for CAMHS.
- Identify and resolve process blockages to enable timely onboarding of staff.
- Influence and support service managers in implementing workforce resourcing strategies that align with operational needs and service delivery models.
- Lead assessment centres and interviews for both clinical and non-clinical roles.
- Innovate recruitment approaches for hard-to-fill posts, including AHP and nursing roles.
- Build external partnerships (e.g., with accommodation providers) to support recruitment and staff retention.
- Explore and implement incentives, such as Golden Hellos or relocation support, for particularly challenging vacancies.
- Take responsibility for managing the end-to-end recruitment process for all new starters within CAMHS.
For more details, please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
We look forward to hearing from applicants who are ready to bring energy, innovation, and a strategic mindset to a critical area of our workforce.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Degree - or equivalent experience in a relevant subject for the role
Desirable
- Post Graduate qualification in HR or training and development
- Teaching/Coaching qualification
- Qualified Nurse of Allied Health Practitioner
Experience
Essential
- Experience in developing and implementing recruitment and retention strategies.
- Experience of working within the recruitment function within the NHS carrying an independent workload
- Experience of running assessment centres and/or other selection techniques
- Experience of leading and managing projects to completion and delivery within the required timescales.
- Experience of working autonomously nursing role
Desirable
- Previous NHS experience and understanding of AFC terms and conditions
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge and understanding of key NHS issues including national and local policy drivers Commitment to high quality, patient focused care
Desirable
- Knowledge and awareness of Electronic Staff Record (ESR) and its functionalities
- Knowledge of NHS Jobs Understanding of employment law and contractual knowledge
- Job Evaluation and Analysis
Skills
Essential
- Leadership with a strong focus on timely delivery of outcomes and achievements
- Skilled communicator, able to effectively communicate verbally and in writing.
- Excellent interpersonal skills demonstrated through the ability to foster effective working relationships
- Experienced facilitator, negotiator.
- Extensive experience of Trac, ESR and NHS Jobs.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Degree - or equivalent experience in a relevant subject for the role
Desirable
- Post Graduate qualification in HR or training and development
- Teaching/Coaching qualification
- Qualified Nurse of Allied Health Practitioner
Experience
Essential
- Experience in developing and implementing recruitment and retention strategies.
- Experience of working within the recruitment function within the NHS carrying an independent workload
- Experience of running assessment centres and/or other selection techniques
- Experience of leading and managing projects to completion and delivery within the required timescales.
- Experience of working autonomously nursing role
Desirable
- Previous NHS experience and understanding of AFC terms and conditions
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge and understanding of key NHS issues including national and local policy drivers Commitment to high quality, patient focused care
Desirable
- Knowledge and awareness of Electronic Staff Record (ESR) and its functionalities
- Knowledge of NHS Jobs Understanding of employment law and contractual knowledge
- Job Evaluation and Analysis
Skills
Essential
- Leadership with a strong focus on timely delivery of outcomes and achievements
- Skilled communicator, able to effectively communicate verbally and in writing.
- Excellent interpersonal skills demonstrated through the ability to foster effective working relationships
- Experienced facilitator, negotiator.
- Extensive experience of Trac, ESR and NHS Jobs.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
