The vacancy
Are you a skilled recruitment professional looking for a fixed-term opportunity where your work truly makes a difference? If so, we’d love to hear from you.
Here at Rainbows Children’s Hospice, we provide specialist palliative care and end-of-life support to over 750 Babies, Children, and Young People living with life-limiting conditions and terminal illnesses as well as approximately 3,000 people, including families, siblings, and carers, across the East Midlands. Simply put, we’re here to brighten short lives and support families, wherever they are.
We’re looking for a passionate and proactive Recruitment Officer to join our friendly People Team on a 12 month maternity cover contract. You’ll play a key role in attracting, engaging, and onboarding the talented individuals who help make Rainbows such a special place to work.
Location: Onsite at Rainbows Hospice in Loughborough
Hours: 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday 9:00am – 5:00pm
Contract details: Fixed Term until January 2027 (12 months)
Ideal start date: January 2026
About the role
This is a varied and rewarding role where you’ll lead on delivering an exceptional recruitment experience, ensuring our hiring practices are inclusive, efficient, and reflective of Rainbows’ values.
Some of the key responsibilities include (but not limited to):
1. Support the rollout of the new Applicant Tracking System (Talos), ensuring it is compliant, efficient, and user-friendly, including delivering training to hiring managers.
2. Manage the end-to-end recruitment cycle, leveraging technology to provide a seamless, people-focused service.
3. Champion inclusion and diversity throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process.
4. Provide professional advice and support to managers, employees, and candidates on all aspects of recruitment.
5. Organise and deliver Rainbows’ Corporate Induction for new starters, ensuring a positive onboarding experience.
6. Continuously review, refresh, and improve recruitment practices to ensure alignment with current best practice and organisational priorities.
7. Successfully recruit new Trustees to the Board, ensuring a transparent and inclusive process.
8. Represent Rainbows at careers events, promoting current vacancies and raising awareness of Rainbows as a charity and employer of choice.
9. Further requirements can be found by downloading the Job Description.
Requirements
We’re seeking a confident and experienced recruiter who can hit the ground running and make a real impact from day one. You’ll be someone who enjoys building relationships, improving processes, and finding creative ways to attract exceptional talent.
10. Proven experience designing and embedding effective, inclusive recruitment practices.
11. Confident using and optimising an ATS.
12. Strong knowledge of selection methods and interview techniques.
13. Able to build strong, collaborative relationships across teams.
14. Experienced in conducting and training others in competency-based and assessment interviews.
15. Further requirements can be found by downloading the Person Specification.
Our Benefits include:
16. Free onsite parking at the Hospice, Lark Rise, Loughborough.
17. Eligibility to join blue light card discount scheme and Company Shop.
18. Healthcare Cashback plan.
19. Life Assurance.
20. 27 days holiday plus bank holidays.
21. Contributory pension scheme or Salary Sacrifice Pension Scheme
22. Affordable meals at the Hospice, Lark Rise, Loughborough.
23. Free Tea, Coffee and Fruit whilst at the Hospice
24. Free access to an employee assistance programme
25. Wellbeing support and access to Mental Health First Aiders
26. Unofficial benefits: Fun events, All staff away days, Guest visitors
This role is subject to a Standard DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) check and comprehensive pre-employment screening, including employment referencing covering the past five years.
Please note: We reserve the right to close this advert early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications. We encourage candidates to apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
Equality, diversity & inclusion
Rainbows Hospice for Children and Young People is committed to improving the quality of its services to all people, irrespective of race/ethnicity, disability, gender, religion or belief, age, or sexual orientation. Our objective is to deliver high quality services that are accessible, responsive, and appropriate to meet the diverse needs of different groups and individuals. As such, we will continue to take action to ensure that staff and volunteers employed by Rainbows Hospice are culturally aware and treat every person with dignity, respect, and fairness, in a way that is sensitively responsive to differences and similarities. Unlawful discrimination and other forms of exclusion have no place within Rainbows Hospice.
About us
Rainbows cares for hundreds of families every year who have a baby, child or young person with a serious or terminal illness that means that their lives will be shorter than most.
We’ve been providing the highest level of professional holistic care and emotional support to babies, children, young people and their families since 1994. Our incredible team help to relieve symptoms, improve quality of life, and support their families to make the most of every precious moment, during life, through bereavement and beyond.
Our aim is to support every one of the thousands of babies, children and young people in the East Midlands, with a terminal or serious illness. To do this we’ve made it easier to access our services – wherever families are in our region. So, as well as providing end-of-life, short break care and bereavement support at our hospice, we also offer care and support at the point of need. Whether at our Lark Rise hospice, in the community, in hospital, or at home.
Simply put, we’re here to brighten short lives, and support families, wherever they are.
When you join Team Rainbows, not only will you receive a host of benefits including free parking, health cash plan and subsidised meals - but you’ll be making a real difference to the lives of families across the East Midlands who are going through the toughest of times.
Although there can be some sad times, Rainbows is a fun, dynamic and caring place to work. Whether you’re based at the Hospice, home or out in the community, you’ll join a team with a can-do attitude, ready to make a positive impact on the world of hospice care.
Our Vision
To become a household name across the East Midlands for the outstanding care we provide, wherever it’s needed.
Our Mission
Whether in our hospice, in hospital, or at home, we deliver unrivalled care to seriously and terminally ill babies, children, young people and their families. Our purpose is to make every moment of their short lives the best it can be.
Our vision is to create the “Rainbows Experience” wherever you are. Our mission is that across the East Midlands we will:
27. Transform care for those babies, children and young people who have a life-limiting or life-threatening condition
28. Relieve the pain and symptoms associated with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions
29. Support every baby, child and young person to achieve their full potential
30. Create memories for families to treasure
31. Provide comfort and compassion at the time of and following the death of a baby, child or young person
Across the East Midlands we will:
32. transform care for those children and young people who have a life-limiting or life-threatening condition
33. relieve the pain and symptoms associated with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions
34. support every child and young person to achieve their full potential
35. create memories for families to treasure
36. provide comfort and compassion at the time of and following the death of a child or young person
Our values
Because WE CARE, we are:
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