Unity Care Solutions are seeking an experienced Recruitment Advisor to steer the company’s recruitment strategy.
This role can truly make a difference. You will specialise in recruiting skilled individuals with the relevant qualifications and experience into roles which provide complex care to our clients within the comfort of their own home. You will navigate the complex but rewarding world of social care to ensure our staff are competent to deliver the highest standards of care.
This is a critical, but exciting, role within the company, working closely with our several branch teams across the business. The ideal candidate will play a crucial role in the recruitment process, ensuring that we attract and hire top talent to meet our organisational needs. This position requires strong communication skills, relationship management abilities, and familiarity with various recruitment technologies.
Duties will include:
- Leading the recruitment process from start to finish, including advertising, shortlisting, interviewing, and onboarding.
- Using a range of methods to source ideal candidates, including social media, job boards, and events.
- Primary responsibility for onboarding compliance, including processing of references, DBSs, and contracts, to ensure the company remains compliant with contractual and regulatory obligations.
- Coordinating positive and meaningful inductions within the branches.
- Creation, development, and implementation of imaginative recruitment strategies to encourage engagement with candidates, including through social media.
- Development of interview frameworks and skills assessments.
- Arrange attendance at job fairs and recruitment functions, and involvement in local and national recruitment projects to increase candidacy levels.
- Creation of staff files, ensuring these are compliant and contain all necessary components.
- Having an awareness of the recruitment needs of the business, and supporting the management team by recruiting staff into priority service locations and positions.
- Liaise with other business areas around new starters.
- Gather feedback around the candidate experience as part of our ‘continuous improvement’ strategy.
- Maintain awareness of sector-specific recruitment initiatives to drive recruitment within the social care landscape.
- Auditing of staff files and employee compliance.
In return, we provide:
- An achievable performance-related bonus scheme
- Complementary membership to Benenden Healthcare
- Access to our wellness programme, including 24/7 access to an online GP service
- Blue Light card discounts
- Ongoing training opportunities
About Unity Care Solutions
Unity Care Solutions deliver care and clinical nursing to adults and children who have complex long-term health conditions within the comfort and safety of their own homes.
We are regulated by the Care Quality Commission, which supports our high standards for excellence in everything we do. We are experiencing a period of growth, and are developing our business support functions in response.
Not only will you have the opportunity to work with a group of colleagues who will support you in your role, but you will become part of a company that truly cares about its people. We place a huge emphasis on the wellbeing of our employees through a company-wide wellness programme, and actively promote participation in events and initiatives.
About You
You will ideally have experience working in a similar role within social care, and will already have a good understanding of regulatory compliance requirements under the Care Quality Commission.
You will have gained relevant experience working within a high-volume recruitment-based role, and will therefore understand the vital role recruitment plays within the health & social care sector.
At UCS, we encourage ideas! You will be able to demonstrate experience of leading engaging and successful recruitment initiatives which have had a positive impact on the organisation’s people strategy.
You will ideally have experience of using an Applicant Tracking System (ATS) however this is not essential.
What is essential, is that you are friendly, engaging, and solution-focused, and can make a positive impact to our recruitment strategy.
If you would like to apply or learn more, you can email jobs@unitycaresolutions.co.uk, or call us for an informal chat on 0333 366 1020.