Ready to step into a role where your skills drive growth, impact, and real change? Love connecting people with growth opportunities? Be part of a team that transforms leadership across the UK's health and care system!This is a great opportunity to join a purpose-led health and care charity as their Recruitment Officer, supporting the growth of impactful leadership and organisational development programmes across the UK health and care system.This role would suit someone who enjoys building trusted relationships, nurturing enquiries into confirmed bookings, and being at the heart of a thoughtful, high-quality participant experience from first contact through to onboarding.If you have previous experience in participant recruitment, admissions, membership engagement or programme coordination - particularly within a membership, charitable or public service setting - this could be the role for you!Role: Recruitment Officer (Programmes)Organisation Type: Health and care charitySalary/Rate: £23 - £26 per hourWorking Arrangements: Hybrid - 2 days per week in London officeEmployment Type: Temporary positionHours: Full time 35 hours per weekDuration: 3 - 6 months approx Closing Date: CVs are being reviewed on a rolling basis - early applications encouraged!The Role:As the Participant Engagement Lead, you'll play a central part in growing enrolment across my client's leadership development programmes. You will lead the full participant recruitment journey, from initial enquiry through to onboarding, ensuring a thoughtful, high-quality experience for every prospective participant.Your responsibilities will include:
Acting as the primary point of contact for prospective participants across open programmes
Proactively nurturing enquiries and guiding individuals through to enrolment
Managing the full application and admissions cycle using a new system
Coordinating virtual interviews and communicating outcomes promptly
Overseeing onboarding, invoicing, ticketing and participant communications
Maintaining accurate recruitment metrics and reporting against targets
Collaborating with marketing colleagues to align campaigns with recruitment goals
Contributing to promotional messaging and ensuring programme information is accurate across channels
Working closely with programme leads to ensure seamless handover from recruitment to delivery
Identifying opportunities to streamline and enhance recruitment processes
About You:You'll bring experience in recruitment, participant engagement, membership, admissions or programme-focused roles, with a track record of guiding enquiries through to successful enrolment while balancing relationship-building with achieving targets.You'll also have:
Experience handling high-volume enquiries with professionalism and responsiveness
Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple workflows simultaneously
Confidence with data, reporting, budgeting and forecasting
Excellent written and verbal communication, with a warm and persuasive tone
Strong CRM/database experience and high attention to accuracy
A collaborative approach and the ability to work cross-functionally
A proactive, solutions-focused mindset and comfort working in a changing environment
Experience within health, social care, leadership development or mission-led organisations would be advantageous, but not essential.
Why Apply?This is a genuinely pivotal role within a respected and purpose-driven organisation working to improve health and care outcomes across the UK. You'll have the chance to shape a new recruitment approach, build meaningful relationships with professionals committed to improving public services, and contribute directly to the growth of a leadership development portfolio with national impact.If you're motivated by achieving targets, delivering excellent customer experience and making a difference through people development, this is a role where your impact will be seen and felt.Interested?CVs are being reviewed on a rolling basis - early applications are encouraged.Apply now to be part of a mission-led organisation dedicated to strengthening leadership across the UK health and care system.We want you to have every opportunity to demonstrate your skills, ability and potential; please contact us if you require any assistance or adjustment so that we can help with making the application process work for you.