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Recruitment Team LeaderNHS

Reading, RG30 2BA Fixed-Term £32,073 to £39,043
Posted 30 October 2026 Closing date 8 November 2026
Checked 9 hours ago · still listed on NHS Jobs Closes in 8 days · 8 Nov 2026
Reading West Rail Station (0.7 miles, direct) Wallingford (Cholsey & Wallingford Railway) (12.0 miles, direct) Purley Social Club (3.4 miles, direct)

Job summary

Are you an experienced recruitment specialist who enjoys leading and supporting others whilst delivering an outstanding candidate experience? If you're passionate about recruitment and enjoy supporting others to deliver great results, this is a fantastic opportunity to step into a Team Leader role within our Recruitment Team.

In this role you'll support the day-to-day running of the recruitment administration function, helping to deliver a high-quality, responsive and efficient service across the Trust. You'll work closely with recruiting managers, the Talent Acquisition Team and HR colleagues to ensure vacancies are progressed quickly and effectively, while meeting key recruitment targets and service standards.

You'll have excellent organisational skills and a keen eye for detail. You'll be confident managing competing priorities, building relationships with stakeholders and supporting colleagues to achieve shared goals.

Whether you're looking for your next challenge or ready to take the next step in your career, we encourage you to apply.

Main duties of the job

  • Leading and coordinating the daily activities of the Recruitment Team, providing guidance and support to Recruitment Administrators and Assistants.
  • Deputising for the Deputy Recruitment Administration Manager when required.
  • Acting as a key point of contact for recruiting managers and colleagues across the Trust, providing advice and resolving more complex recruitment queries.
  • Supporting the delivery of recruitment KPIs and SLAs, ensuring candidates receive an excellent experience throughout the recruitment journey.
  • Prioritising pre-employment checks and offers for hard-to-fill and business-critical roles, helping to accelerate appointments where they are needed most.
  • Overseeing the end-to-end recruitment process, from advertising vacancies and arranging interviews through to issuing contracts and completing pre-employment checks.
  • Ensuring compliance with NHS Employment Standards, safer recruitment requirements, right to work legislation and Disclosure and Barring Service processes.
  • Working with the Recruitment Manager to identify opportunities to improve processes and implement service improvements.

Job description

The must haves for this role:

  • Experience of supervising and training or mentoring others.
  • Good standard of education. Qualified to NVQ3 or an equivalent level of experience.
  • Experience of working with Recruitment/HR systems and procedures and Microsoft packages.
  • Previous in-house recruitment experience and an ability to demonstrate a good understanding of the processes involved.
  • Experience of working in a customer service environment.

For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.

We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted.

Your application is your opportunity to demonstrate to us how you meet the requirements of the role. We recognise that AI tools can support accessibility, equity and confidence for applicants. However, its important that examples and responses given in your supporting statement genuinely reflect your own experience and abilities, as these will be explored further during the selection process. AI must not be used to provide misleading or false information during any stage of the application journey.In addition to explaining how you meet the person specification, you must complete your employment history for at least the last five years. Any experience, skills or responsibilities referenced in your supporting statement should be evidenced within your employment history. Applications that do not include sufficient employment history to support the experience claimed may not be shortlisted.

Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.

We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please dont hesitate to call: Sarah Crawforth, Candidate Attraction Manager, on 07815 485130 or email: [email protected] wholl be delighted to help.

Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.

About us

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated 'outstanding' by the CQC, we're committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we're committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.

Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are:

  • Caring for and about you is our top priority
  • Committed to providing good quality, safe services
  • Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions

Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:

  • Flexible working options to support work-life balance
  • 27 days' annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
  • Generous NHS pension scheme
  • Excellent learning and career development opportunities
  • 'Cycle to Work' and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
  • Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
  • Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
  • Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
  • Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
  • Free parking across Trust sites
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