Recruitment Administrator
The closing date is 19 April 2026.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Recruitment Administrator to join our busy Resourcing Team.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone with strong organisational skills, administrative experience and a passion for providing a high-quality service to colleagues across the Trust.
In Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH), we pride ourselves on delivering outstanding care – and this starts with recruiting excellent people. In this role, you will help shape our recruitment service and ensure a seamless, high-quality experience for candidates and hiring managers across the Trust.
Main duties of the job
You will be expected to provide an efficient, customer-focused front‑of‑house and administrative recruitment service for Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
You will need to support the delivery of safe, timely and values‑led recruitment by ensuring high-quality administration, excellent customer service to candidates and staff, and full compliance with pre‑employment standards.
About us
Our Trust
Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. With over 13,000 staff and more than 1,100 beds, the Trust focuses on quality service centred on patients, staff and partners. Recognised as providing ‘outstanding’ care to our patients and rated ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commissioner, this reflects the skill and dedication of our people. CUH’s values – Together – Safe, Kind, Excellent – are at the heart of patient care, defining how all staff work and behave. The Trust provides accessible, high-quality healthcare for the local community of Cambridge, together with specialist services for rare or complex conditions benefiting a regional, national and international population.
CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community – a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or socioeconomic background.
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.
As per Home Office guidelines, this position does not offer sponsorship. A full‑time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa unless they have applied for a Graduate visa, completed their course and applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date, or the Trust will sponsor them as a Skilled Worker within 3 months of the anticipated start date.
This vacancy will close at midnight on 19th April 2026.
Benefits to you
At CUH, we support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on‑site leisure facilities, a shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our work programme includes reduced‑cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.
On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recent launches include staff pod break spaces in the Deakin Centre, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge.
CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work‑life balance regardless of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include part‑time working, job‑share, term‑time working and flexible start and finish times.
We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Educated to GCSE or equivalent
* Typing qualification or equivalent experience
Experience
* Administrative work within a busy office environment
* Complex administrative tasks
* Prioritising, planning and organising own and others’ tasks
* Dealing with difficult situations and confrontations
* Data entry experience and documentation
* Previous NHS work using HR systems like ESR, Trac Jobs & NHS Jobs
Knowledge
* Confidentiality and data protection
* Customer service
* Office procedures and all Microsoft Office packages
* Anti‑discriminatory issues
* NHS Employment Standards
* Priorities
* Trust information systems
Skills
* Teamwork
* Good communication skills including telephone, e‑mail and face‑to‑face
* Timekeeping organisation to meet deadlines
* Safeguarding confidential documents
* Attention to detail and accuracy
* IT proficiency – Microsoft Office and typing accuracy
* Willingness to learn new skills
Additional Requirements
* Understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues, according to the Trust values of safe, kind, excellent
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This position is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and requires a disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous convictions.
Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
£25,760 to £27,476 per annum pro rata
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