Screening Manager

Pay Range Salary: £34,000 per annum + £4,000 performance bonus

Job Description

Location:

New York Street, Manchester City Centre

Working Pattern:
Full-time hybrid role

Following a 12-week training period, you'll alternate between one week in the office and one week from home.

Salary: £34,000 per annum + £4,000 performance bonus

Hours:

Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours per week (8:00am - 4:30pm with a 1-hour lunch break)

Additional Requirement:
Two late-night shifts per month

Reed Screening is looking for an experienced Screening Manager to lead our operational teams and deliver a high-quality service to clients across Local Government, Financial Services and Healthcare. You'll be responsible for ensuring screening processes are efficient, compliant and consistently delivered to a high standard, while supporting and developing a team of Team Leaders. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced people leader who enjoys driving performance, improving processes and developing others, with a clear pathway into an Operations Manager role.

• Lead screening operations, ensuring quality, compliance and service standards are met.
• Deliver a high-quality screening service for clients across regulated sectors.
• Manage team performance, workloads and resource planning.
• Coach and develop Team Leaders to drive success.
• Act as the escalation point for complex or high-risk cases.
• Build strong relationships with clients and key stakeholders.
• Ensure regulatory and contractual compliance.
• Drive process improvements and efficiencies.

• Experience with in screening, compliance, risk, vetting or another regulated environment
• Proven leadership experience, ideally managing Team Leaders or supervisors
• Strong understanding of quality standards, risk and compliance requirements
• Confidence in making decisions and handling complex situations
• A track record of delivering results while maintaining high standards

• Up to £4,000 annual performance bonus
• Hybrid working
• Clear progression opportunities, including a pathway to Operations Manager
• Comprehensive training and leadership development
• Generous annual leave, with the option to buy additional days
• Pension scheme
• Wellbeing support and Employee Assistance Programme
• Paid sabbaticals and long-service awards
• Employee discounts and retail savings
• A supportive and collaborative working environment

Feeling what it’s like to truly belong… All job offers are subject to satisfactory references and compliance with vetting requirements applicable to the job role.

Reed is an equal opportunities employer. We aim to ensure that no candidate or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity.

We are a Mindful Employer and offer a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria.

As a proud signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant, we welcome applications from ex-services personnel, reservists and cadets and offer a guaranteed interview for applicants who meet the minimum criteria.

In the early 1960s, Reed pioneered specialist recruitment in the UK. Seven decades on, we have become the world’s largest family-run recruitment business, with offices spanning across the UK, Europe, USA, the Middle East and East Asia. With access to the UK’s largest candidate database and expertise across 20 specialist sectors, we are committed to ensuring that people are at the heart of everything we do to ensure we fulfil our purpose: improving lives through work.