Recruitment Executive
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37.5 |
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31st May 2025 | |
QUALIFICATIOONS (IF REQUIRED) |
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£25,897 - £32,000 |
Recruitment Executive – £25.897 – 32,000
We are looking for a talented and motivated individual, with a passion for recruitment, to join our team and to lead on the coordination of the whole talent acquisition and onboarding process, from beginning to end.
The Successful applicant will be able to manage multiple tasks to tight deadlines, and work with urgency and drive to ensure outcomes are achieved.
We recruit front line staff and management for various care settings, a diverse range of head office staff and self-employed foster carers, all who are critical to our business growth and delivery of the very best service and support to our customers.
The ideal candidate will have a wealth of relevant experience, be a self-starter, and need minimal supervision.
As part of our multi-disciplinary Corporate and Commercial Department, you will implement the recruitment process across the business, providing excellent customer services to a range of internal and external stakeholders. You must be proactive and innovative in attracting the best candidates through a variety of digital and direct methods, and evaluate applications and campaigns against the brief, seeking continual improvements.
You will support recruiting managers during the selection stage and then process applications and DBS criminal record checks in a fast, efficient way, in line with safer recruitment practices, keeping recruiting managers informed throughout. You will also ensure everything is in place for new starters throughout the onboarding process, which includes benefits package, equipment, ID badge, systems access, contract, induction and introduce opportunities for online training during onboarding and/or induction process, collaborating with broader colleagues as applicable.
You will also ensure that continuous checks are carried out for our existing workforce to maintain compliance against Ofsted standards.
Day-to-day, your work will encompass a broad range of activities, from administrative through to online and face-to-face sales and marketing and everything in-between. Given our recent success you will be involved strategic projects to support our growth, add a further dimension to the role, so we are really looking for someone who is hungry to join us on this journey into a brighter future.

Qualifications
Minimum of 3 GCSE Grades at A-C including Maths and English
A Degree in Business Administration/Management would be most advantageous but not essential
Experience
2 – 5 years’ experience in a related role
Experience of building and managing applicant databases
Experience of sourcing, screening, and arranging interviews for new applications
Experience of undertaking, maintaining, and Processing background checks including right to work
Experience of managing the onboarding and Offboarding of new employees
Experience of Business to Business to Sales
Experience in Health & Social Care Sector
Skills/Abilities
Analytical skills
Strong self-management skills – self-starter
Solid understanding of recruitment practices
Proactive approach
Exceptional written and verbal communication and customer service skills
Strong time and priority management skills, completing work in required timescales, with a low level of supervision
High attention to detail and finishing skills
Qualities
Personable and polite
Honest, reliable, and trustworthy
Works on own initiative but also as part of a team
Good alignment to our company values
Other Requirements
Company Values
- Personal development opportunities
- Treating you as an individual
- Publicly recognising your achievements
- Supporting you any way we can
- Placing you on a comprehensive training program
- A competitive salary

Benefits
This position offers an excellent salary of between £25,897 - £32,000 together with a superb benefits package including:
Outstanding Benefits Package:
Funded DBS and renewals
Private health cashback plan
Access to online GP, scans, physio, counselling, and more
Death in service benefit (2x salary)
Contributory pension scheme
Blue Light retail discount card
Annual leave purchase scheme
Broad training and development opportunities
Emergency days scheme
Career progression support with annual performance reviews
Refer-a-friend reward scheme
Annual superstar awards
Additional annual leave after 2 and 5 years of service
Utilities comparison service

Who is Progress?
We are an established provider of specialist services for children and young adults from 0-25, who have disabilities and specialist needs, including profound and multiple learning difficulties, severe learning difficulties, physical disability, sensory impairment, complex health care needs, acquired brain injury, and Autism. This encompasses a fostering agency, residential homes, supported living, a range of short break solutions, home and community support, preparation for independence and much more. As a values-led, family-owned business, we are not prepared to compromise on the quality and safety of our services, which are delivered following our owner’s ethos; ‘if it is not good enough for your own family, it is not good enough for our customers’..
We pride ourselves on enabling a more ordinary life to be experienced through extra-ordinary service delivery, with the people we support being the heart of everything we do. Everyone deserves a childhood and to move on into independence – this takes innovation every day as one size does not fit all where people are concerned!
Why work for Progress?
We asked some of our staff this question and the words they used in response included… friendly, further your career, support, extensive training, like a family, accepted, good team relationships, accommodating, flexibility, work ethic with colleagues, caring, shared passion, values aligned to your own, passion, not just a job; a career, gained skills, personal progression, support for staff; not just the people we care for, be part of a journey and the growth of the organisation, family feel, personal growth, opportunities, acknowledgement and recognition of efforts, not just a number, make a difference, feel appreciated, properly appraised annually with resulting outcomes, thorough induction, personal approach, no hierarchy, delivering on promises, high staff retention, respected as equals.
Even our temp had a positive opinion, “a great supportive team, allowing you to work flexibly with great opportunities to develop and apply your skills to assist across the business”.
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