Job Description

Who are we?

We are New Directions, a group of companies that provide UK wide services (including recruitment, training, care provision and other support services) within education, social care, domiciliary care and the pharmaceutical sector, from a network of offices across the UK.

• A market leader and supplier of choice
• IRP ‘Best Company to Work for 2016’
• Winner of ‘Recruitment Training Provider of the Year’ – Business Excellence Awards 2018
• Winner of ‘Best Recruitment and Training Services – Wales’ – Business Excellence Awards 2016

Summary of Role:

We have an exciting opportunity for a Recruitment Consultant to join our Education department based in Wirral.

To provide a quality educational staff supply service to all schools and education supply workers in your allotted area of responsibility, in a manner than enhances the reputation of the company and leads to business growth from satisfied customers.

What we offer:

Fantastic employee benefits including:

• A basic salary £24,000 – £27,000 plus commission based on performance and regular incentives/sales campaigns
• A flexible working environment, with the opportunity for hybrid working
• Health Cashback scheme
• Life Assurance of 3 x salary
• Pension Salary Sacrifice Scheme
• A generous annual leave entitlement of 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (rising to 27 days holiday after two years’ service)
• Opportunity to purchase additional annual leave through salary sacrifice
• A day off for your birthday
• Opportunity to join our 3% interest Christmas savings scheme
• Employee referral scheme; you can earn between £250 and £500 for each successful referral into the business
• Regular social, health and well-being events
• Free on-site parking
• On-site Gym

Main Responsibilities:

• Recruiting candidates for a range of education supply roles for schools in your assigned area
• Promoting candidates to schools to match the best talent to the work available
• Taking bookings for day to day and long term supply work working proactively to fill them with your best candidates
• Maintaining relationships with existing clients through effective account management to generate ongoing and long term business
• Developing new business sales through regular calls and visits to non-using and lapsed clients selling in your services and candidates
• Using the recruitment CRM to execute all client and candidate actions
• Maintaining relevant intelligence on your clients and candidates to support the branch strategy
• Supporting your schools with community and fundraising activities
• Working to and exceeding key performance indicators and targets set by the Branch Manager
• Partnering with Recruitment Consultants across different departments to cross and up-sell services and products

Ideal Candidate

• Has previous experience of working in agency recruitment or business development/sales
• Is able to source, recruit and retain staff for a range of roles
• Knowledgeable of recruitment, vetting, and compliance procedures or possesses a willingness to learn and develop
• Able to effectively negotiate and close sales working to set targets and KPIs
• Demonstrates commercial awareness through an understanding of gross profit and margin control
• Comfortable conversing with lapsed and non-using clients to develop new business
• Has excellent customer service skills to deliver a warm and efficient service to existing clients
• Offers a personable and calm approach to building effective working relationships with candidates
• Remains calm and proactive when working under pressure to resolve challenging situations
• Holds a full UK driving license