This role leads a high-volume recruitment function while owning compliance across a complex, regulated organisation. You will stabilise, streamline, and improve recruitment processes during a period of significant people and operational change.
Client Details
Our client is a mission-driven organisation, supporting vulnerable service users across clinical, education, and care settings. The organisation is undergoing significant transformation and requires a confident, delivery-focused leader to strengthen recruitment and compliance frameworks.
Description
- Develop and implement recruitment strategies to support the organisation's goals.
- Ensure full compliance with safer recruitment and regulatory standards
- Lead and develop a multi-disciplinary recruitment and compliance team
- Drive process improvement and efficiency across recruitment workflows
- Own and lead the recruitment function across clinical and non-clinical roles
- Monitor and review policies and procedures to ensure they remain up-to-date and effective.
- Manage recruitment KPIs including time-to-hire and quality metrics
- Partner with senior stakeholders and provide clear recruitment briefings
- Lead recruitment-related change projects during periods of transformation
- Oversee audits, risk management, and regulatory readiness
- Identify opportunities to improve efficiency through automation and AI
Profile
A successful Recruitment & Compliance Manager should have:
- Experience managing large teams and complex workloads
- Proven experience leading recruitment in regulated environments
- Strong working knowledge of recruitment compliance and employment law
- Confident stakeholder manager, comfortable influencing senior leaders
- Experience owning and improving recruitment processes end-to-end
- Data-driven, with experience using KPIs to drive performance
- Comfortable operating during organisational change
- Pragmatic, resilient, and delivery-focused leadership style
- Exposure to healthcare, education, or care sectors highly desirable
Job Offer
30 days annual leave
Hybrid and flexible working arrangements
Opportunity to lead during a significant period of change
High-impact role with visibility at senior leadership level
Supportive leadership and long-term development opportunities
