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Recruitment and Retention Manager for ICare GB Ltd, based at the Blackpool Head Office. Full-time position (37.5 hours per week) with a salary of £32,000 per year. The role involves leading the recruitment and retention team, managing the end-to-end recruitment process, ensuring compliance, developing retention strategies, and overseeing onboarding and workforce stability.
Job Responsibility:
Manage the end to end recruitment process across all service areas, ensuring compliance with ICare’s Recruitment Policy
Approve and quality check all job advertisements to ensure accuracy, fairness, and non discriminatory practice
Ensure interviews, screening processes, and selection methods are conducted consistently and professionally by the Recruitment & Retention Team and service managers
Actively source candidates through a variety of methods including job portals, social media platforms, job boards and recruitment fairs
Proactively engage with new candidates to ensure they are supported throughout the recruitment process to enable a smooth candidate experience
Oversee the drafting and issuing of conditional offer letters and ensure all pre employment checks, references, right to work documentation, qualifications, and background checks are completed
Provide weekly reports on recruitment outcomes
Oversee smooth induction and onboarding processes, ensuring coordination with HR, IT, Payroll, Facilities, and Operations
Ensure all work history gaps are fully accounted for and supported with required statements
Maintain full compliance with Skilled Worker Visa and Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS) processes, ensuring all legal documentation and financial approvals are obtained
Develop and implement retention initiatives to reduce turnover, improve stability, and strengthen employee engagement
Work closely with Registered Managers, Care Managers, and the SMT to identify hotspots, forecasting staffing needs and turnover risks
Monitor attendance, induction completion, early attrition, and offer withdrawal trends to propose targeted retention strategies
Lead, coach, and support the Recruitment & Retention Team to achieve KPI targets and maintain high standards of delivery
Ensure team members are equipped to carry out screening, interviewing, onboarding, compliance checks, and candidate support effectively
Produce weekly and monthly recruitment KPIs, including interviews booked, offers made, time to hire, induction numbers, and retention metrics
Ensure accurate maintenance of recruitment files, digital records, and audit ready documentation (including CoS files, onboarding packs, and retraction records)
Use analytics and trends to support business planning, workforce forecasting, and SMT decision making
Requirements:
Self-motivated, innovative, flexible, organised, excellent attention to detail and a can-do attitude
Experienced in recruitment with an innovative, energetic and driven mindset
Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
Be creative in producing job adverts to continually attract new candidates
Leadership skills
Solution focused
Promote fairness, inclusion and non-discriminatory recruitment
Demonstrate accountability, professionalism and confidentiality in all aspects of the role
2 years’ experience in high-volume recruitment within Health and Social Care or similar regulated sectors
Strong knowledge of safer recruitment requirements and onboarding compliance
Experience of managing a recruitment team
Excellent organisational, communication, relationship building and IT Skills
Ability to work under pressure, manage competing priorities and meet deadlines
Strong attention to detail and accuracy
Experience with Skilled Worker Visa/CoS processes
Knowledge of social care workforce challenges and retention strategies
Experience using ATS platforms
Outstanding references and a clear DBS
Vehicle owner with full driving license
What we offer:
Friendly working environment
Equal opportunities
Competitive Salary
Weekly pay
Stakeholder Pension
Blue light card qualification (receiving major discounts online and on the high street)