This six-month fixed-term talent acquisition post at Elysium Healthcare sits within a project to strengthen permanent staffing across its highest-priority sites. The work centres on building healthcare assistant and nursing pipelines, advising hospital directors and clinical leads on site-level recruitment plans, and running candidates from first contact to offer. Based remotely, the role involves regular travel across England and Wales plus a monthly day at the Luton head office. Candidates must be available immediately and hold a UK driving licence.
What the job involves
- Partner with hospital directors, clinical leads, and regional and operations leaders to turn workforce demand into site-level recruitment plans
- Build proactive HCA and nursing pipelines ahead of demand through direct sourcing, social media, job boards, referrals and community engagement
- Own the full candidate journey from first contact to offer
- Track delivery against milestones: pipeline health, vacancy levels, time-to-fill, offer-to-start conversion and agency spend reduction
- Identify and elevate recruitment or operational barriers, ensuring the right teams own the actions
- Document activity and hand over so the wider TA team can sustain it after the project ends
- Manage a complex, multi-site caseload with competing demands
- Contribute to or lead defined recruitment projects or programmes
Experience
- Proven track record in HCA and/or nursing recruitment, with results in direct sourcing and pipeline building
- Experience working proactively with operational and clinical stakeholders
- Experience managing a complex, multi-site caseload with competing demands
- Experience contributing to or leading defined recruitment projects or programmes
Skills & knowledge
- Strong data literacy, using vacancy, pipeline and workforce data to set priorities and track progress
Checks & eligibility
- UK driving licence
- DBS disclosure
Other
- Willingness and ability to travel regularly across England and Wales
Nice to have
- Experience using Eploy ATS
- Background in mental health, learning disability or specialist care settings
- Familiarity with variable labour analysis or workforce planning
What’s offered
- Competitive annual salary
- 33 days' annual leave including bank holidays, plus birthday off and option to buy extra leave
- Career development and training
- Pension contribution and enhanced maternity package
- Wellbeing support, 24/7 GP service and second medical opinion
- Life assurance
- Stream earned-wage access and savings with financial wellbeing support
- Ely-Vate rewards platform and Blue Light Card discounts
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