Recruitment Specialist

As a Recruitment Specialist, you'll join our recruitment team at our central support office in Harrogate and play a key role in sourcing and recruiting care professionals to enable our local home care branches to grow. Working closely with recruitment colleagues and hiring leaders, you'll be a trusted advisor throughout the recruitment process from briefing to onboarding.,

• Lead end-to-end recruitment for our vacancies, ensuring a seamless candidate and hiring manager experience
• Build strong partnerships with hiring managers and internal stakeholders to fully understand role requirements and deliver tailored sourcing strategies
• Advertise job vacancies across multiple channels, including job boards, email marketing and social media
• Proactively identify and engage passive candidates through direct sourcing methods, networks, LinkedIn, and other channels
• Conduct detailed screening calls and interviews to assess candidate suitability and cultural fit
• Support the interview and offer process, providing guidance on best practice and ensuring a smooth process from start to finish
• Complete pre-employment checks including DBS and reference verifications
• Utilise the Applicant Tracking System (ATS) and recruitment databases efficiently to maintain organised candidate records and track progress
• Analyse recruitment metrics and data to identify trends, optimise processes, and improve time-to-hire and quality-of-hire outcomes
• Build and nurture long-term relationships with candidates, creating a positive employer brand and encouraging referrals
  
  Proven experience in recruitment, particularly in health or social care
• Demonstrable experience managing the full recruitment lifecycle, from vacancy creation to candidate onboarding
• Proficiency in Microsoft, Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and recruitment databases
• Familiarity with social media recruitment and digital sourcing strategies
• Assertive and decisive in managing recruitment processes
• Goal-oriented with commitment to achieving recruitment targets
• Excellent communication, planning and organisational skills
• Warm, patient and compassionate but also emotionally resilient and calm under pressure
• Enthusiastic and positive 'can do' attitude with ability to motivate others
• Commitment to providing and maintaining high standards of care and support
  
  Carefound Home Care has developed a reputation as the highest quality provider of home care services to older people and we are rated Outstanding by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) across our branches. Join us, and you'll be part of a supportive, award-winning team which is centred around providing the best possible care and support to our clients and staff.
  
  Join the leading care team - rated Outstanding by the CQC across our branches
• Competitive salary of up to £30,000 (depending on experience) plus bonus
• Benefits including 25 days' holiday plus bank holidays, pension, and opportunities for career development, Salary: Up to £30,000 per year plus bonus