Job summary
Reporting directly to the Head of People, the recruitment specialist is a 360-recruitment role which is
critical to support our sustainable scale within our primary care and community care NHS
musculoskeletal markets.
You will be responsible for the provision of high-quality recruitment services for the organisation, and
you will be the key to ensuring we get the right people, in the right roles, at the right time.
You will help devise the recruitment strategy for the business and will take ownership and
responsibility for the delivery of end-to-end recruitment processes. You will be developing
recruitment systems and processes, maximising the use of technology to improve recruitment
services, and reducing time to hire. You will be delivering on c 10-20 live vacancies at any one time..
Youll be someone who transforms proposals into reality and have a track record of doing this
elsewhere.
Based at home with occasional travel, youll spend your days largely on MS Teams and on the
telephone, advertising vacancies, screening applicants, headhunting talent, organising interviews, and
closing candidates managing the full end-to-end recruitment process.
Main duties of the job
Youll be responsible for effectively administering the end-to-end recruitment process for
assigned vacancies including quality checking and placing adverts on job sites including NHS
jobs, Linked In, and Indeed, arranging interviews, issuing conditional offer letters, and issuing
contracts of employment.
Youll support our HR and Governance Administrator to effectively perform pre-employment
checks such as DBS, ID verification, professional registration checks and reference checks for
successful candidates, in line with NHS Employment Check Standards.
Youll support our HR and Governance Administrator to process certificate of sponsorship
applications when necessary, using the UK Visas and Immigration Sponsorship management
system (SMS).
Youll provide an advisory service to hiring managers and applicants to ensure timely
completion of recruitment activities and to ensure adherence to recruitment processes,
legislations, and best practice.
Youll create reporting suite of recruitment measures including time to hire, quality of hire,
vacancies within the organisation and status of the vacancy etc in a dashboard format, which
should be shared across the business and with key stakeholders.
Youll ensure we maximise the use of recruitment systems to issue relevant correspondence
to applicants and successful candidates.
About us
Founded in August 2020, Primary Care Physio has grown rapidly and already established itself as
England's largest national specialist first contact musculoskeletal (MSK) physiotherapy, podiatry and
occupational therapy provider who is purely focused on supporting NHS Primary Care Networks
(PCNs) and their GP practices to deliver high-quality and tech-enabled NHS primary care MSK FCP
solutions.
Through our talented employed team of over 350 First Contact Practitioners & Advanced Practitioners,
who are supported by experienced and Health Education England trained FCP clinical supervisors, we
have been commissioned by over 185 NHS Primary Care Networks (PCNs) to deliver an integrated and
local FCP managed service. We now serve 1000+ GP practices across 37 ICBs, and a patient population
over 9 million.
We conduct over 1 million patient consultation appointments per year.
You can find out more about our team here: https://primarycarephysio.co.uk/pages/management
team
You can read what our team have to say about us here:
https://www.greatplacetowork.co.uk/certified-company/1574534
Job description
Job responsibilities
Youll be responsible for effectively administering the end-to-end recruitment process for
assigned vacancies including quality checking and placing adverts on job sites including NHS
jobs, Linked In, and Indeed, arranging interviews, issuing conditional offer letters, and issuing
contracts of employment.
Youll support our HR and Governance Administrator to effectively perform pre-employment
checks such as DBS, ID verification, professional registration checks and reference checks for
successful candidates, in line with NHS Employment Check Standards.
Youll support our HR and Governance Administrator to process certificate of sponsorship
applications when necessary, using the UK Visas and Immigration Sponsorship management
system (SMS).
Youll provide an advisory service to hiring managers and applicants to ensure timely
completion of recruitment activities and to ensure adherence to recruitment processes,
legislations, and best practice.
Youll create reporting suite of recruitment measures including time to hire, quality of hire,
vacancies within the organisation and status of the vacancy etc in a dashboard format, which
should be shared across the business and with key stakeholders.
Youll ensure we maximise the use of recruitment systems to issue relevant correspondence
to applicants and successful candidates.
Youll be responsible for communicating with hiring managers and candidates regarding
advert placement, applicant status and selection processes.
Youll ensure that high standards of service delivery and quality standards are maintained in
the areas of recruitment and selection.
Youll educate and influence hiring managers regarding recruitment and selection best
practice.
Youll drive social media approaches to widen the traditional audiences who apply for roles.
Youll develop our inclusive recruitment and selection processes to positively attract
individuals from diverse backgrounds into the organisation workforce with the aim of
creating a workforce that reflects the communities we serve.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Youll be responsible for effectively administering the end-to-end recruitment process for
assigned vacancies including quality checking and placing adverts on job sites including NHS
jobs, Linked In, and Indeed, arranging interviews, issuing conditional offer letters, and issuing
contracts of employment.
Youll support our HR and Governance Administrator to effectively perform pre-employment
checks such as DBS, ID verification, professional registration checks and reference checks for
successful candidates, in line with NHS Employment Check Standards.
Youll support our HR and Governance Administrator to process certificate of sponsorship
applications when necessary, using the UK Visas and Immigration Sponsorship management
system (SMS).
Youll provide an advisory service to hiring managers and applicants to ensure timely
completion of recruitment activities and to ensure adherence to recruitment processes,
legislations, and best practice.
Youll create reporting suite of recruitment measures including time to hire, quality of hire,
vacancies within the organisation and status of the vacancy etc in a dashboard format, which
should be shared across the business and with key stakeholders.
Youll ensure we maximise the use of recruitment systems to issue relevant correspondence
to applicants and successful candidates.
Youll be responsible for communicating with hiring managers and candidates regarding
advert placement, applicant status and selection processes.
Youll ensure that high standards of service delivery and quality standards are maintained in
the areas of recruitment and selection.
Youll educate and influence hiring managers regarding recruitment and selection best
practice.
Youll drive social media approaches to widen the traditional audiences who apply for roles.
Youll develop our inclusive recruitment and selection processes to positively attract
individuals from diverse backgrounds into the organisation workforce with the aim of
creating a workforce that reflects the communities we serve.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Youll possess prior experience of working within a fast-paced specialised healthcare recruitment role (either agency or in-house).
- Youll have experience of advising and or managing recruitment services (both high volume and specialist) and resourcing activities with strong governance and standards achieved throughout.
Desirable
- Youll have worked with NHS GP practices, PCNs, CCGs, and/or other public sector organisations.
- Youll have experience of complying with NHS Employment Check Standards.
- Youll be able to evidence previous development and implementation of HR policies, procedures, and practices in relation to recruitment activities.
- Youll be able to show evidence of previously using the UK Visas and Immigration Sponsorship management system
Key Skills and Attributes
Essential
- You thrive from working under pressure, and stay calm, in a fast-paced and changing environment.
- You will have the ability to prioritise and manage a varied and unpredictable workload on a day-to-day basis, responding to changes at short notice.
- You will be brilliant at communicating with an ability to work cohesively with internal and external stakeholders you find it easy to explain things in a way which is easy for others to understand. (In person, and in writing!)
- You will have knowledge of effective selection practices, experience of hiring to multiple clinical roles, functions, and disciplines as well as recruiting specialist and very senior manager roles.
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- You will have experience of large-scale volume recruitment; be an exceptional team player with excellent influencing skills to ensure the organisation receives effective recruitment services which meet and exceeds customer needs and offers a high level of customer service.
- You possess a mature and approachable attitude towards colleagues in keeping with Primary Care physios coaching approach to professional development.
- You must enjoy being out there and being the face of recruitment on social media.
- You would describe yourself as a People Person and team player you love interacting with others and working with them to deliver on time.
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- You run a tight ship, you take pride in being organised, thorough, and ahead of the game.
-
- You pick up systems quickly - it never takes you long to learn a new policy, programme, or website.
- You will love data using data to inform decision making.
- You pride yourself on your problem-solving skills - you love logically thinking a problem through to a great solution.
- You can follow legal, ethical, professional, and organisational policies/procedures and codes of conduct.
- You have MS office skills including the use of IT programmes, HR databases, and other modern/tech-based ways of working and collaborating.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Youll possess prior experience of working within a fast-paced specialised healthcare recruitment role (either agency or in-house).
- Youll have experience of advising and or managing recruitment services (both high volume and specialist) and resourcing activities with strong governance and standards achieved throughout.
Desirable
- Youll have worked with NHS GP practices, PCNs, CCGs, and/or other public sector organisations.
- Youll have experience of complying with NHS Employment Check Standards.
- Youll be able to evidence previous development and implementation of HR policies, procedures, and practices in relation to recruitment activities.
- Youll be able to show evidence of previously using the UK Visas and Immigration Sponsorship management system
Key Skills and Attributes
Essential
- You thrive from working under pressure, and stay calm, in a fast-paced and changing environment.
- You will have the ability to prioritise and manage a varied and unpredictable workload on a day-to-day basis, responding to changes at short notice.
- You will be brilliant at communicating with an ability to work cohesively with internal and external stakeholders you find it easy to explain things in a way which is easy for others to understand. (In person, and in writing!)
- You will have knowledge of effective selection practices, experience of hiring to multiple clinical roles, functions, and disciplines as well as recruiting specialist and very senior manager roles.
-
- You will have experience of large-scale volume recruitment; be an exceptional team player with excellent influencing skills to ensure the organisation receives effective recruitment services which meet and exceeds customer needs and offers a high level of customer service.
- You possess a mature and approachable attitude towards colleagues in keeping with Primary Care physios coaching approach to professional development.
- You must enjoy being out there and being the face of recruitment on social media.
- You would describe yourself as a People Person and team player you love interacting with others and working with them to deliver on time.
-
- You run a tight ship, you take pride in being organised, thorough, and ahead of the game.
-
- You pick up systems quickly - it never takes you long to learn a new policy, programme, or website.
- You will love data using data to inform decision making.
- You pride yourself on your problem-solving skills - you love logically thinking a problem through to a great solution.
- You can follow legal, ethical, professional, and organisational policies/procedures and codes of conduct.
- You have MS office skills including the use of IT programmes, HR databases, and other modern/tech-based ways of working and collaborating.
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.
