Talent Acquisition Specialist

About the role:

The Talent Acquisition Specialist runs end-to-end in-house recruitment for Cera's own teams, finding and hiring the people who keep our care services running. You will recruit for roles across our home care branches, including Nurse and branch support office roles. You will partner closely with regional and branch leaders, manage your own vacancies from brief to start date, and give every candidate a fast, fair and positive experience.

You will use direct sourcing, our applicant tracking system and internal talent pools, including supporting existing colleagues to move into new roles.

Responsibilities

Sourcing and attraction

• Create and discover new, innovative channels to attract quality candidates, from headhunting to online networking tools, acting as an ambassador for Cera's brand.
• Run a direct sourcing model: find talent through social media, internet sourcing, CV databases, job adverts, relationship building and networking.
• Proactively research and investigate new ideas to create innovative sourcing strategies.
• Build candidate pipelines for current, future and high-volume roles.
• Keep in regular contact with the wider market to stay up to date with changes in the market, competitors and technology.
• Collaborate with teams across the company to drive forward Cera's employer brand.
• Build and maintain relationships with key internal stakeholders across the business, managing expectations and recruitment timeframes.

Recruitment delivery

• Manage a portfolio of vacancies end to end: intake meetings, job adverts, sourcing, screening, interviews, offers and onboarding hand-off.
• Act as search expert for all business streams, understanding each role's recruitment requirements, position specification and search needs.
• Hold structured intake meetings with hiring managers to agree role requirements, salary, timelines and selection process.
• Write clear, inclusive job adverts and post them across job boards.
• Screen applications and conduct telephone and video interviews.
• Coordinate and, where needed, sit on interview panels; coach hiring managers on fair, competency-based interviewing.
• Handle inbound and outbound calls, including candidate calls and general recruitment enquiries.

Internal mobility

• Advertise vacancies internally and support existing colleagues to apply for promotions and secondments.
• Build and maintain internal talent pools and succession pipelines with line managers.

Compliance and process

• Work closely with the onboarding team as they complete pre-employment compliance checks (right to work, DBS, references and qualifications), liaising with candidates to keep them engaged and on track to start, and support newly hired Registered Managers with their CQC registration application.
• Support new processes, policies and interview paperwork that give candidates and hiring managers a great experience.
• Keep the applicant tracking system accurate and up to date at every stage.
• Follow safer recruitment, GDPR and equality, diversity and inclusion good practice.
• Reporting and relationships
• Provide report data to hiring managers on pipeline, time to hire and source of hire, and flag risks to the Talent Acquisition Manager.
• Build strong relationships and rapport with everyone you come into contact with.
• Keep candidates informed at every stage and give timely feedback.

Qualifications and Skills

Essential

• Previous recruitment experience, in-house or agency, ideally including at least 2 years managing vacancies end to end.
• Proven direct sourcing skills, including searching CV databases on job boards such as Indeed.
• Ability to generate a high-volume, high-quality pipeline of candidates.
• Experience working with an applicant tracking system.
• Passionate about delivering an amazing candidate experience.
• Great communication, interpersonal and customer service skills, with the ability to build strong, productive relationships and interact at all levels of the organisation.
• Detail oriented, able to prioritise across multiple functions and manage time efficiently across a large level of live vacancies at once.
• A team player, able to work with people from different backgrounds and experience.
• Highly motivated and enthusiastic, with the ability to excel in a self-driven, remote role.
• The initiative, drive and ambition to succeed, and the ability to motivate, drive and influence people.
• Working knowledge of right to work checks, GDPR and fair recruitment practice.
• Experience in the healthcare sector.

Desirable

• Recruitment experience in domiciliary or social care, ideally hiring Registered Managers and other care leadership roles.
• Knowledge of CQC safer recruitment requirements, DBS processes and care qualifications such as the Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care.
• Experience of high-volume recruitment campaigns.
• Experience of UK visa sponsorship (Skilled Worker) processes.