Recruitment Consultant

As a 180 Healthcare Recruitment Consultant
, you’ll focus on the candidate side of the desk—building a reliable pipeline of healthcare professionals and placing them into temporary or permanent roles. You’ll source, screen, onboard, and manage candidates end-to-end, ensuring compliance is tight and candidate experience is excellent.

This is a fast-paced role suited to someone who enjoys high-volume relationship building, strong organisation, and delivering results.

Candidate sourcing & attraction (180 focus)

• Proactively source healthcare candidates (e.g., carers, support workers, HCAs, nurses—depending on your market).
• Run candidate attraction campaigns using job boards, social media, referrals, and local outreach.
• Build and maintain a live pipeline aligned to client demand and shift requirements.

Candidate management & matching

• Conduct high-quality screening calls and interviews (competency-based + availability).
• Match candidates to roles based on skills, experience, location, shift patterns, and compliance status.
• Maintain regular contact to maximise engagement, retention, and shift fulfilment.

Compliance & onboarding (critical in healthcare)

• Manage end-to-end onboarding including:
  Right to Work, s, references, DBS, training, and any client-specific requirements.
• Maintain accurate candidate records and evidence trails to meet audit and regulatory expectations.
• Ensure candidates remain compliant and renew documents/training as required.

Relationship management (candidate-first)

• Be the main point of contact for candidates: bookings, queries, performance feedback, and issue resolution.
• Drive retention by understanding candidate goals and placing them in the right environments.
• Handle candidate welfare concerns professionally and escalate appropriately.

Delivery & performance

• Work to targets for candidate registrations, compliant starts, placements, and shift fill rates.
• Keep systems up to date (ATS/CRM), ensuring accurate notes, availability, and compliance status.
• Collaborate with 360 consultants / client managers to align candidate supply with client needs.

• Number of candidate registrations and compliant starts per week/month
• Shift fill rate / placement volume
• Time-to-fill and responsiveness to bookings
• Compliance accuracy (audit pass rate, renewals on time)
• Candidate retention and redeployment rate

• Experience in recruitment (healthcare preferred) in a candidate-focused (180) or delivery role
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• Strong sourcing skills and ability to build a pipeline quickly.
• Excellent organisation and attention to detail (especially for compliance).
• Confident communicator—able to build trust with candidates and handle objections.
• Comfortable working to targets in a fast-paced environment.