Job Description
Senior Recruitment Consultant
Offer: This is a unique opportunity to help shape the future of the social agency recruitment sector.
As our first Senior Recruitment Consultant you will be employed by Yonder, a not-for-profit recruitment agency, designed and built in collaboration with our local authority partners. We will provide experienced social workers to our local authority’s children’s teams as well as supporting the children’s residential and third sector to find the best care staff to deliver exceptional care and support to children and families in the LCR region.
Due to its ethical nature this venture is fully endorsed and supported by the people who want it, need it and will purchase from it. Therefore, the buy-in and commitment are already there, this role is about helping to make the idea a reality.
The Senior Recruitment Consultant will join the Operations Director in launching Yonder’s service. We will be relying on you to bring knowledge of the Northwest social care agency market, and you will be supported by a team with extensive experience of the recruitment industry and social care in the community.
Details
Your base: Liverpool City working
Your hours: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: £35000 – £40,000
Start date: Jan 2025
Day Job:
Your primary responsibility will be to supply high quality, care staff to our clients across the Liverpool City region with a focus on Children’s services.
We are seeking someone who can demonstrate excellent communication, both written and verbal, enjoys working in a fast-paced environment and can overcome challenges placed in front of them.
You will source candidates using job boards, LinkedIn, and networking, all the while helping to spread Yonder’s vision and mission throughout the agency social care market.
You will be responsible for guiding candidates through the interview process and be responsible for providing excellent after care following successful placements.
As a senior member of the team you will be responsible for helping to hire future recruitment consultants as we grow our capacity to support our health and social care partners.
We are going to do things differently and would love to hire someone who wants to be involved and help shape the future of Yonder’s other workforce offers. This could take the form of leading candidate events, taking on responsibility for marketing or helping to inform how we can reinvest into candidates and local authorities to help improve the quality of support for children and young people.
Essentials
We are looking to recruit an exceptional individual for this role, so if you can cover our 'essentials' list and you are motivated to help create a long-term positive impact for families, children, and Local Authorities in the Northwest, this could be the perfect role for you.
You’ve experience in the social care recruitment sector. You are proud of your desire to create change (but not be easily put off by obstacles along the way).
You are an excellent communicator and can build strong professional relationships with different personalities.
You are the kind of person who is open and honest about what is working and what is not and will actively engage with your colleagues to help find solutions.
Application process:
Our 'quick questions' No more than 200 words per question if it is written. No more than 90 seconds per question if it is video or spoken content. We believe it is always good to get off on the right foot, and we want to make sure we invite the right people to interview.
So, we are giving you creative freedom, answer the questions below in whatever format you wish, the only limits we are giving you are:
1. Why do you want this role and why do you think you are the 'right person'?
2. What are the three key success factors to the successful placement of temporary social care staff?
3. What do you think is the biggest challenge facing children’s services in the UK?
Hang on a Tick:
We want a workforce that meets everyone’s needs, enough people to fill vital roles, professional and life experience that others can trust, and workers who feel valued and driven to change lives. But to achieve this we must do things differently, and when you look at the rest of the recruitment marketplace, that is exactly what we are… different.
We are not in it for the money, we are a not-for-profit agency. That means that every penny our clients spend with us ends up in one of three places. Back with our workers (whether through direct pay or development and learning programmes), funding our core agency team’s day to day operations, or investments into social work learning academies in the areas we work.