Job summary
- Main area
- Recruitment Co-ordinator
- Grade
- Band 3
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed Term Contract)
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 380-SS0690
- Employer
- Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Farm Villa, Maidstone
- Town
- Maidstone
- Salary
- £24,937 - £26,598 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 25/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Medical HR Recruitment Co-ordinator
Band 3
The CQC rates us as an Outstanding organisation for Caring with an overall rating of Good
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT) offer a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce across the Trust. 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.
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
This is an exciting opportunity to join the medical staffing team.
As a member of the medical recruitment team, you will ensure the recruitment process is carried out in a confidential, smooth and timely manner.
You will need excellent IT skills, previous experience working in a busy customer-focused environment, ideally in recruitment and/or medical staffing team and the ability to work effectively under pressure and prioritise workload to meet deadlines and KPIs.
The team is currently based at home for 80% of the working week, with 20% being spent on-site in Maidstone, in accordance with our current hybrid working policy. Travel to other KMPT locations may be required.
Main duties of the job
Medical Staffing is part of the People Team Directorate and is therefore at the centre of organisational changes within the organisation.
The post-holder will be based within the Medical Staffing department, working closely with the Medical HR Recruitment Leads and Deputy Medical Staffing Manager to ensure the provision of a professional, high quality, customer-focused medical recruitment service.
The post-holder will support the activities of all of the Trust’s Medical recruitment, ensuring all administrative processes are carried out in a timely manner.
Working for our organisation
Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.
We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.
Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.
We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.
You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.
The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.
Our strategy
Our mission is what we set out to do every day
We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people
Our vision is where we want to be in the future
To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.
Check out our recruitment videos Recruitment - YouTube
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities of the role.
Here are some clips of our KMPT staff, speaking about their role and why they enjoy working for us.
Person specification
Qualifications/training
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with IT Software packages
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Willingness to undertake training
Desirable criteria
- CIPD Level 3 qualification
- Experience in recruitment, using Trac Software system
- Experience in the use of ESR/NHS Job sites/e-DBS
Previous experience
Essential criteria
- Ability to work on own initiative, within guidelines. Due to the diversity of tasks, there is a need to work effectively under pressure and prioritise workload and meet tight deadlines.
- Experience within a Medical HR Department or area of high confidentiality.
- Previous experience of working with senior staff
- Experience of system interfaces.
- Experience of abiding by organisational policies and processes.
- Experience of maintaining confidentiality and handling sensitive information.
Desirable criteria
- Experience within a Medical HR Department
Skills and knowledge
Essential criteria
- Excellent organisational and interpersonal skills
- Ability to communicate at all levels.
- Excellent customer service skills
- Ability to provide prompt and pragmatic problem-solving advice.
- Excellent attention to detail
- Adaptable to meet changing environments and goals.
- Ability to absorb new information quickly
- Flexible approach to problems and working practices.
- Willingness to develop new skills
- Commitment to equal opportunities.
Desirable criteria
- Ability to write and present clear, concise and relevant reports to various audiences.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jacquie Dixon
- Job title
- Medical Staffing Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07707 151857
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