Workforce Recruitment Officer – MacIntyre School & Children’s Homes in Wingrave

Location: Primarily based at Wingrave, with travel across MacIntyre School and Children’s Homes and time in Central Office in Milton Keynes.

Reports to: Commercial and Business Lead, Children and Young People

Salary: £35,600 (full time)

Hours: 38 hours per week, with flexibility needed to support candidate and operational availability

Contract: Permanent

Help us find the right people for work that really matters. At MacIntyre, our vision is for all people with a learning disability to live a life that makes sense to them. We are looking for an experienced Workforce Recruitment Officer to help us strengthen recruitment across MacIntyre School and our Children’s Homes. This is a new, specialist role, created to bring pace, grip and practical recruitment expertise into a busy and important operational environment.

Why this role matters: Recruitment into children’s social care and education is critical. The people we appoint make a direct difference to children and young people’s lives every day. You will help us attract people who may already have experience in care, education or children’s services, as well as people with transferable skills from other sectors who have the values, resilience and motivation to do this work well.

What you will be doing:

• Coordinate hands‑on recruitment and talent activity across MacIntyre School and Children’s Homes, supporting a busy recruitment pipeline of around 200–300 appointments a year.
• Build clear visibility of vacancies, shifts, rotas and future workforce needs.
• Work with managers to shape roles and opportunities in ways that are attractive, realistic and operationally deliverable.
• Lead local attraction activity for Support Worker, Learning Support Assistant and other key operational roles.
• Build local reputation, relationships and word‑of‑mouth routes so that more people understand MacIntyre as an organisation, the work we do and the opportunities available.
• Strengthen candidate messaging, local storytelling and online visibility.
• Coordinate candidate communication from first interest through to start date.
• Use values‑led screening calls so candidates are understood beyond their CV.
• Coordinate look‑arounds, realistic job previews and interview arrangements.
• Support protected interview slots and escalate where activity is not moving at pace.
• Support onboarding flow, keeping‑warm activity and early retention follow‑up.
• Use data and insight to show what is working, what is blocked and what needs to change.

About you: You will bring proven recruitment experience and the confidence to get things done. This is not a first appointment into recruitment; we need someone who already understands recruitment practice and can apply that experience in a complex operational setting. You may have worked in recruitment, resourcing, talent acquisition or a similar role. Experience in social care, education, children’s services or another regulated environment is required.

You will need to be:

• Organised, practical and able to work at pace.
• A systematic thinker who can improve processes, handovers and follow-through.
• Confident using recruitment systems, spreadsheets, data and online advertising tools.
• Skilled at candidate engagement, screening and communication.
• Able to build trust with managers, candidates and colleagues.
• Confident to challenge drift, create pace and elevate constructively where needed.
• Able to influence in a busy operational setting where people are managing many competing priorities.
• Comfortable using evidence, insight and professional judgement to improve recruitment outcomes.
• Committed to safeguarding, inclusion and fair recruitment practice.
• Values‑led, curious and focused on improvement.

As the role covers our sites at Wingrave, Leighton Buzzard and St Albans, as well as time in Central Office in Milton Keynes, you will need to travel between locations. A full driving license and access to a vehicle is essential.

Working hours and flexibility: This is a 38‑hour‑per‑week role, but it is not a traditional 9 to 5 recruitment job. To reach candidates well, there will be times when some evening or weekend working is needed, whether that is for candidate calls, recruitment events, interviews or keeping people warm at the points they are most available.

What matters is that candidates feel supported, managers get the recruitment grip they need, and you have the flexibility and trust to do the job well.

What we offer: We provide a range of benefits to reward and thank our staff which includes:

• Six weeks’ annual leave including statutory public holidays.
• MacIntyre Staff Savings Scheme.
• Health Cash Plan which provides money back on core health treatments such as: optical, dental, physiotherapy, chiropody (at reduced cost).
• MacIntyre Sick Pay (qualifying period).
• Life assurance scheme offering valuable benefits to your dependents.
• MacIntyre Rewards Scheme which recognises and rewards staff.
• MacIntyre Perks which offers up to 6% discount off leading retailers including Tesco, Curry/PC World, Costa and many more.
• Access to the Blue Light Card which offers thousands of amazing discounts online and on the high street for emergency and social care staff.
• Enhanced DBS Certificate (cost paid by MacIntyre).
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP).

Interested? If you are an experienced recruiter who wants to use your skills in a role with real purpose, we would love to hear from you. At MacIntyre, you will be helping to find people who can support children and young people to learn, grow, belong and live lives that make sense to them. To apply, please submit your CV and a short supporting statement via our website.

Safer Recruitment and Diversity statement: MacIntyre safeguards and promotes the welfare of the children, young people and adults we support. Therefore we work with successful candidates to complete appropriate checks prior to joining. MacIntyre is committed to promoting equality, encouraging diversity and embracing inclusion among our workforce.