Job summary
- Main area
- Recruitment team leader
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Home or remote working
- Job ref
- 380-SS0774
- Employer
- Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Eastern and Coastal Area Offices
- Town
- Canterbury
- Salary
- £31,049 - £37,796 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Recruitment Lead (Medical)
NHS AfC: Band 5
We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We offer a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce. From an active health and wellbeing programme to regular recognition events, we work hard to provide varied benefits that make a difference to your work-life balance.
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Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you.
Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
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Job overview
We are seeking a Senior Recruitment Lead (Medical) to join our Recruitment Team.
This is a key role providing day-to-day leadership across the Medical Recruitment function, including line management of the Medical Recruitment Officers, and oversight of the end-to-end medical recruitment process to ensure a high-quality, professional and compliant service in line with Trust policy, NHS Employers guidance, Home Office requirements and relevant legislation.
You will provide expert advice and operational support to hiring managers and senior stakeholders, help coordinate medical recruitment activity, and drive improvements to reduce time to hire and strengthen candidate and manager experience. Hybrid working is available, with a minimum of one day per week in the office.
Main duties of the job
- Lead the end‑to‑end medical recruitment process, ensuring compliance with Trust policy, NHS guidance and legislation
- Line manage the Medical Recruitment Officers, providing day‑to‑day leadership, supervision and support
- Act as the main point of contact for medical recruitment queries, escalations and complex cases
- Provide expert advice to hiring managers and senior stakeholders on medical recruitment processes and best practice
- Oversee and advise on Advisory Appointment Committees (AACs) for consultant recruitment
- Ensure Fit and Proper Person requirements, right to work and visa sponsorship processes are managed correctly
- Drive continuous improvement across medical recruitment to reduce time to hire and improve candidate and manager experience
- Ensure offer letters, contracts, pay details and recruitment bonuses are accurate and compliant
- Monitor recruitment activity, performance data and risks, using insight to inform improvements
- Work closely with Medical Staffing and other internal teams to ensure joined‑up, efficient recruitment processes
Working for our organisation
We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway. Our teams support adults with a wide range of mental health needs. Because we cover the whole county and both hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the 1.8 million people of Kent and Medway. Rated ‘Good’ by the CQC, we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 in the community each year.
Our vision is simple: We are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. It’s why we’re passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. And everything we do is guided by our values caring, inclusive, curious and confident.
Join us - if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that's doing well together.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification for a full breakdown of main responsibilities and requirements.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level or equivalent relevant experience
Desirable criteria
- CIPD qualification or equivalent
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience in managing a medical recruitment function or acting in a senior capacity within a Medical Recruitment Team
- Experience of managing complex medical recruitment issues.
- Experience in producing reports and analysing data to monitor performance, within a recruitment environment.
Desirable criteria
- Experience in the use of NHS systems such as ESR/NHS Jobs/Trac
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of employment law that relates to recruitment
- Knowledge of Doctors Terms and Conditions in relation to medical recruitment
- Leadership, negotiating and influencing skills, with the ability to form positive relationships at all levels.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Danielle Anderson
- Job title
- Recruitment and Temporary Staffing Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01227 532210
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