Talent Sourcing & Compliance Specialist - Children's Residential Social Care (6 Months Fixed Term)

Job Description

Location: Millbank House, Arkle Road, Sandyford Business Park

Location: Sandyford, Dublin 18/Hybrid (3 days in office)

Job Type: Full-Time, 6 Months Fixed Term Contract

Salary: €40,000

Join Our Team

Are you a proactive recruiter with a passion for sourcing exceptional talent and ensuring compliance excellence? We're looking for a Talent Sourcing & Compliance Specialist to join our growing team and play a key role in attracting top talent while supporting a robust compliance framework across our workforce.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who enjoys both the challenge of talent acquisition and the satisfaction of maintaining high standards of recruitment and employee compliance.

What You'll Do

Talent Sourcing & Recruitment

• Source and engage high-quality candidates using LinkedIn Recruiter, job boards, referrals, networking, social media, and direct sourcing techniques.
• Build talent pipelines for current and future hiring needs across a range of roles.
• Conduct candidate screening and initial assessments.
• Coordinate interviews and provide an excellent candidate experience throughout the recruitment process.
• Support employer branding initiatives, recruitment campaigns, and career events.
• Develop targeted sourcing strategies using market mapping, competitor analysis, and talent insights.
  
  

Market Intelligence & Talent Insights

• Research labour market trends, salary benchmarks, and talent availability.
• Monitor competitor activity and identify new sourcing opportunities.
• Provide recruitment insights and recommendations to support workforce planning.
• Help strengthen candidate attraction and employer branding strategies.
  
  

Compliance & Employee File Management

• Conduct audits of recruitment and employee files to ensure compliance with company policies and regulatory requirements.
• Monitor documentation including Garda Vetting, Driving Licences, Employment Permits, and Irish Residence Permits (IRP).
• Track renewal dates and proactively manage compliance requirements.
• Prepare audit reports, compliance trackers, and exception reporting.
• Support inspection readiness and continuous improvement of compliance processes.
  
  

Reporting & ATS Administration

• Maintain accurate candidate and employee records within the Applicant Tracking System (ATS).
• Produce recruitment, sourcing, and compliance reports.
• Support process improvements and data quality initiatives.
  
  

About The Role

What We're Looking For

Essential

• 2-3 years' experience in recruitment, sourcing, talent acquisition, or a related field.
• Proven experience sourcing candidates through LinkedIn Recruiter, job boards, referrals, networking, and direct search methods.
• Strong experience building talent pipelines and engaging passive candidates.
• Experience using an ATS and maintaining accurate recruitment records.
• Knowledge of compliance administration, employee documentation management, or audit processes.
• Excellent organisational skills with strong attention to detail.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Analytical mindset with the ability to interpret recruitment and compliance data.
  
  

Desirable

• Experience within social care, healthcare, childcare, or another regulated environment.
• Knowledge of Tusla standards, safer recruitment practices, Garda Vetting, Employment Permits, IRP requirements, and driving licence compliance.
• Understanding of Irish labour market trends and recruitment practices.
• Qualification in Human Resources, Recruitment, or a related discipline.
  
  

Why Join Us?

• Competitive salary
• Hybrid working model
• Opportunity to make a real impact on recruitment strategy and compliance standards
• Collaborative and supportive team environment
• Career development and growth opportunities
• Varied role combining recruitment, market intelligence, and compliance
  
  

If you're a detail-oriented recruitment professional who enjoys sourcing top talent and ensuring operational excellence, we'd love to hear from you. Apply today!

Overview

About The Company

Mission: Odyssey Social Care provides safe homes where children and young people can heal from trauma, rebuild trust, and discover their own strengths. We give them the support and opportunities they need to build resilience and step into a brighter future.

Working for Odyssey Social Care involves being part of a team dedicated to supporting children and young people.

As professional caregivers, we are caring, compassionate and resilient. We work with children who have experienced trauma, and believe in healing through trusting care relationships.

The Odyssey Way

We put the needs of the child at the forefront of everything we do. Our care framework is designed to be flexible, responsive and provide holistic care to our young people.

Our care model, The Odyssey Way, is trauma-informed, evidence-based, and outcome-led. It supports the needs of each individual child, helping them to work through trauma by focusing on overall wellbeing.

Our unique, specialised intervention, the Odyssey Saoirse Project, uses eco-therapy, adventure-based life skills and positive mentoring to help young people heal, grow and thrive.

Company Culture

Our Values

• Safety – safe homes, safe care, safe relationships
• Quality – trauma-informed, evidence-based, outcome-led
• Trust – built through honest communication and consistency
• Empowerment – giving young people and staff the tools to succeed
• Inclusion – equity and belonging for all
• Impact – measurable difference for young people, staff, communities & planet
  
  

Accessibility & Sustainability

Odyssey Social Care is committed to encouraging a culture of diversity and inclusion across our organisation.

As a Certified B Corp, we also believe in providing care sustainably, measuring our impact across our people, our communities, and the planet.

Required Criteria

• 2–3 years' experience in talent sourcing, recruitment, talent acquisition, or a related role.
  
  

Desired Criteria

• Experience working within social care, healthcare, childcare, or another regulated environment.
  
  

Closing DateFriday 13th November, 2026

Contract Typefulltime

Salary€40,000.00 Yearly