Job Overview
Join a Top-Performing NHS Recruitment Team! Ranked 3rd in the UK for Time to Hire, quality, pace and values sit at the heart of our service. With proven experience in medical recruitment, you will lead the delivery of resident doctor onboarding, ensuring the smooth and timely coordination of monthly starters and supporting the effective management of internal rotations.
What You’ll Be Doing
* Providing guidance, supporting recruitment with colleagues, ensuring consistent & high-quality recruitment
* Acting as the lead recruitment advisor for a clinical division, partnering with clinical managers and medical staffing team
* Leading medical recruitment campaigns, including recruitment of doctors across a range of grades and specialties.
* Coordinating & supporting medical rotations, ensuring timely recruitment, onboarding and placement of doctors to meet service needs.
* Managing the end-to-end recruitment, from advert to appointment
* Supporting the organisation and administration of Advisory Appointments Committee (AAC) panels, ensuring compliance with NHS regulations and coordinating panel membership, documentation and interview arrangements.
* Providing expert advice and guidance to managers on recruitment best practice, policy, compliance and values-based selection.
* Supporting the onboarding journey for medical staff, working closely with managers and corporate team
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities (not exhaustive)
* Provide day-to-day coordination and support within the recruitment team, contributing to the delivery of an effective, responsive and customer-focused recruitment service.
* Monitor and manage recruitment activity, helping to prioritise workloads in line with divisional demand, medical recruitment timelines and performance targets.
* Support the development of colleagues through sharing best practice, contributing to team learning and maintaining up-to-date knowledge of recruitment processes and systems.
* Build effective working relationships with clinical managers, medical staffing teams and corporate colleagues, promoting open communication and collaborative working.
* Ensure clear communication with stakeholders so managers and candidates remain informed throughout the recruitment process.
* Support the development of attraction and selection approaches to improve the recruitment and retention of both temporary and substantive medical staff.
* Coordinate and support targeted recruitment campaigns, including medical recruitment rounds and rotations, helping to maintain a sustainable pipeline of candidates.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
We know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours; we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
For a comprehensive list of the tasks and responsibilities of this role please refer to the job description and person specification.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Educated to HR/ business degree level, or equivalent academic standard / experience
Desirable criteria
* Certificate in HR Practice (CHRP / CPP) or equivalent level of experience
Experience
Essential criteria
* Experience of working in a customer service environment
* Proven background in recruitment delivery & HR processes
* Leading operational teams in target driven SLA environment
Desirable criteria
* Experience of using TRAC
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
* Managing conflicting priorities, varied workload and demanding timelines
* Ability to extract, interpret and analyse information with attention to detail and accuracy
* Experience of using Microsoft Office applications (i.e. Word, Excel, Outlook)
Desirable criteria
* Understanding of UK immigration law and work permit regulations
* Skills and Knowledge of medical recruitment and doctors rotations
Other
Essential criteria
* Ability to travel across Trust sites and to external events / meetings
* Ability to concentrate for extended periods of time with VDU and desk-based work
Additional Information – Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
FHFT serves a population of over 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and South Buckinghamshire, and remains committed to improving the health and wellbeing of our communities. Our new organisational strategy – FHFT 2030 – sets out our ambition to be the best place to receive care and the best place to work in the NHS.
Underpinned by our Trust values – Committed to Excellence, Working Together, Facing the Future, and being a modern, compassionate, healthcare organisation – we are creating a culture where our people can thrive and patients always come first.
We continue to invest heavily in our services and facilities, including the development of a new hospital at Frimley Park, expansion of diagnostics and inpatient capacity, and the continued transformation of services across our sites. We have already delivered a brand-new £100m state-of-the-art Heatherwood Hospital, a £49m Emergency Assessment Centre at Wexham Park, and a £10m upgrade to maternity services.
We are committed to sustainability and the NHS Net Zero ambition. Our new hospital and estate developments are being designed to be environmentally responsible, energy efficient, and future-proofed, featuring on-site renewables energy and intelligent energy systems. Through our green plan, we embed sustainable practices across all areas of care and operations, ensuring we reduce our environmental impact while improving population health and wellbeing. Our staff are key to helping us deliver on our ambition and to ensure sustainability is a core component of care delivery and our operations.
Alongside estates’ investments, we are embedding a strong focus on digital innovation and quality improvement. Our electronic patient record (Epic), launched in 2024, is already enabling safer, more connected, and more effective care for patients, while giving staff the tools they need to do their best work. Our electronic patient record also supports safe and effective digitised care pathways, saving time and carbon, whilst delivering excellent quality of care.
Everything we do is guided by our values, shaping how we care for patients, support colleagues, and build a sustainable future for healthcare together.
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