Candidate Consultant Manager

We are a specialist provider of community care, supported living, complex care, children’s services and respite support across the UK.

We deliver high-quality, person-centred support to individuals with a range of needs, helping them live safer, healthier and more independent lives.

We are looking for an experienced recruitment professional and people manager to lead our Candidate Consultant team and take responsibility for delivering a strong, reliable pipeline of care professionals across CAMHS, Adult Supported Living and Physical Complex Care.

You will oversee the recruitment and engagement of Mental Health Support Workers, Registered Mental Health Nurses and Complex Care Support Workers, ensuring the team recruits against current and forecast service needs. You will lead candidate attraction, screening, onboarding support and the conversion of suitable agency workers into our directly employed bank workforce.

Reporting into the Business Manager and working closely with Care Coordination and Onboarding teams, you will turn staffing requirements into clear recruitment priorities, manage team performance and improve the journey from initial contact to first shift. This is a hands-on management role, combining leadership and accountability with direct support for complex candidate queries and priority recruitment activity.

Full induction and relevant training will be provided, including safeguarding and service-specific training.

• Work with Care Management and Care Coordination to forecast staffing demand, identify workforce gaps and deliver targeted recruitment plans.
• Prioritise candidate pipelines based on skills, experience, location and availability to meet service requirements.
• Oversee candidate sourcing, attraction and screening, ensuring suitability for roles and alignment with safe, person-centred care.
• Drive the conversion of agency workers into the directly employed bank workforce, ensuring clear communication of employment terms and onboarding expectations.
• Support priority campaigns and complex candidate cases, resolving issues and minimising recruitment delays and candidate drop-off.

• Oversee candidate progression through the 360 Onboarding platform, working with the Onboarding team to resolve outstanding requirements and remove bottlenecks.
• Ensure safer recruitment standards are followed and all required checks, training and service-specific requirements are completed before deployment.
• Coordinate meet-and-greet arrangements and clear handovers to Care Coordination, ensuring workers are matched to suitable services based on their skills, experience and availability.
• Monitor progression from clearance to first shift, reducing deployment delays and strengthening early engagement and retention.

• Provide accurate reporting to the Business Manager on recruitment pipelines, KPIs, conversion rates, clearance times and time to first shift.
• Analyse candidate withdrawals, declined offers and early attrition, implementing improvements to strengthen recruitment outcomes and retention.
• Use workforce data to identify staffing risks, optimise the deployment of cleared workers and improve workforce availability.
• Maintain accurate, confidential candidate records to support reporting, audits and inspections.
• Collaborate across departments, elevate recruitment and compliance risks promptly, and ensure all activities meet company policies, regulatory requirements and quality standards.

• Experience in recruitment, candidate management or…