Job summary
- Main area
- HR
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed Term)
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 151-KMC111
- Employer
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Greenwood Offices
- Town
- Ascot
- Salary
- £32,602 - £39,686 per annum incl HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 20/01/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Resourcing Advisor
Band 5
Job overview
Join a Top-Performing NHS Recruitment Team
This is an exciting opportunity to join a high-performing NHS recruitment service, ranked 3rd in the UK for Time to Hire, where quality, pace and values sit at the heart of everything we do.
As a Band 5 Recruitment Advisor, you will act as the lead recruitment partner for a designated division, taking ownership of recruitment delivery and working closely with managers.
You will join a KPI-driven, target-focused team that consistently delivers against national benchmarks, while maintaining a strong focus on candidate experience, inclusion and values-based recruitment. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys working at pace, building strong relationships and seeing clear, measurable impact from their work.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Acting as the lead recruitment advisor for a designated division, working in partnership with managers to plan and deliver effective recruitment solutions.
- Managing end-to-end recruitment campaigns, from advert through to appointment, ensuring a positive and inclusive candidate experience.
- Providing expert advice and guidance to managers on recruitment best practice, policy, compliance and values-based selection.
- Supporting the onboarding journey, working with managers and corporate teams
- Providing day-to-day leadership and coaching to a small team, setting clear priorities, monitoring KPIs and role-modelling high standards of customer service and professionalism
Main duties of the job
Some key parts of the role but not all of them
- Provide day-to-day leadership of the team, ensuring delivery of an effective, customer-focused recruitment service.
- Continuously review and prioritise workloads to meet divisional demand and performance targets.
- Recruit, train and develop staff, including appraisals, objective setting and personal development planning.
- Develop effective team working and strong relationships across the Trust through open communication and constructive feedback.
- Ensure effective communication systems are in place so the team remains informed of Trust developments.
- Develop attraction and selection approaches to support recruitment and retention of temporary and substantive staff.
- Support resourcing plans and lead on specific recruitment campaigns, ensuring 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.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, 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
- • Certificate in HR Practice (CHRP / CPP) or equivalent level of experience
Desirable criteria
- • Evidence of continuing professional development
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Experience of recruitment processes and procedures
- • Experience of working in a customer service environment
- • Experience of delivering training
Desirable criteria
- • Experience of working with external networks
- • Experience of using NHS Jobs
- • Experience of using TRAC
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Excellent customer service, communication and interpersonal skills
- • Ability to manage conflicting priorities and work to tight deadlines and targets
- • Ability to manage a varied, unpredictable and demanding workload
- • Ability to extract, interpret and analyse information and produce reports
- • Experience of using Microsoft Office applications (i.e. Word, Excel, Outlook)
- • Knowledge of recruitment and selection methods and resourcing best practice
- • Ability to work to a high level of accuracy and attention to detail
Desirable criteria
- • Understanding of UK immigration law and work permit regulations
- • Knowledge of NHS Employment Check Standards
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
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kat McLeod
- Job title
- Strategic Resourcing Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07553817714
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