The role
You will be responsible for finding, welcoming and retaining our Care Professionals as we grow to reach at least four people a month. This is not a numbers-only recruitment job: every person you bring in will be trusted in someone’s home. You will hire for values first, and help new starters feel part of the family from day one.
You will report to our Care Manager, working side by side with the scheduling and care team, with a monthly review with the owner.
What you will do
Attract
- Plan and run recruitment campaigns across Indeed, social media, our website and the local community
- Hold recruitment events or drop-in session’s.
- Build partnerships with colleges, job centres, community groups and local employers
- Run our employee referral scheme and grow a pool of ready-to-hire candidates
- Tell our story as an employer: real people, real reasons they love the work
Select
- Respond to every applicant within 24 hours and keep candidates warm through the process
- Screen, interview and assess candidates for values, compassion and reliability
- Complete all safer-recruitment checks: Enhanced DBS, references, right to work and full employment history
- Keep recruitment records CQC-inspection ready at all times
Welcome and retain
- Coordinate onboarding and induction with our Care Manager and training lead
- Check in with every new starter during their first 12 weeks
- Help match Care Professionals with clients
- Have informal check-ins with existing Care Professionals to understand what they enjoy about their job, any concerns they have, and what would help them stay with the organization. Conduct exit interviews, and share what you learn
Measure
- Track applications, time-to-hire, cost-per-hire, 90-day retention and net headcount growth
- Report monthly to the management team and suggest improvements
What success looks like in year one
- Net growth of 4 Care Professionals per month, after leavers
- Time from application to first shift under 21 days
- At least 85% of new starters still with us after 90 days
- Compliance files that pass every audit first time
Hit these and the team grows fast: once we reach 40 Care Professionals, the role becomes full-time.
About you
Essential
- Experience of end-to-end recruitment, ideally high-volume or in health and social care
- Working knowledge of safer recruitment: DBS, references and right to work
- Confident on social media and digital job boards
- Warm, persuasive communicator, in person and on the phone
- Organised, data-minded and able to juggle priorities
- Full UK driving licence and access to a car
Desirable
- Experience in domiciliary care or of CQC standards
- Experience with an applicant tracking system such as Smart Recruiter
- Birdie
- Local knowledge of Colchester and North Essex
If you have a passion for caring and the motivation to help us achieve our ambitions, we would love to hear from you.
We encourage applications from all sections of the community as we want to reflect the neighbourhoods in which we work. Home Instead is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. This role is subject to DBS enhanced disclosure.