Recruitment Consultant

Kara Healthcare is a quality care provider devoted to delivering first-class dementia, nursing, residential, and respite care to residents living in our homes. We believe our residents deserve choice, dignity, and independence.

Our main focus is to create a friendly, safe, and warm environment for everyone in our homes. Tailored care plans and 24-hour personal support for each resident help us achieve this. We offer a wide variety of care options from short and long-term residential to person-centred nursing care.

Kara Healthcare are continuously looking to recruit talented individuals to join our caring, enthusiastic, and supportive team. Everyone here has a fundamental part to play in our continued success and growth. Follow our CEO Nitesh Somanior Kara Healthcare LinkedIn to find out more about us.

About the Role

This is an in-house recruitment role supporting end-to-end hiring across our care home network. You will work closely with home managers, operational leaders, and the wider People and Culture team to fill a high volume of roles across care, nursing, and support functions, as well as specialist and leadership positions. You will be the first point of contact for candidates and a trusted partner for hiring managers, ensuring a consistent, values-driven, and legally compliant recruitment process throughout.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end recruitment activity across multiple homes and job families, from vacancy briefing through to offer and onboarding handover.
• Source candidates through a range of channels including job boards, social media, referrals, and recruitment agencies, building pipelines for hard-to-fill and recurring roles.
• Build strong relationships with home managers and operational leaders, advising on job design, candidate assessment, and selection best practice.
• Manage relationships with external recruitment agencies, ensuring compliance with agreed terms and maintaining quality and value for money.

About You

You are a proactive and organised recruiter who thrives in a fast-paced, high-volume environment. You enjoy building relationships with both candidates and hiring managers, and you take pride in delivering a positive experience for everyone involved in the recruitment process. You are commercially aware, solutions-focused, and comfortable managing multiple vacancies at once without dropping the ball. You have a genuine interest in the care sector and understand the importance of getting recruitment right in an environment where staffing directly affects the quality of care.

Requirements

• Proven experience in a recruitment role, either in-house or agency-side, with demonstrable experience managing volume recruitment.
• Experience recruiting for care, healthcare, hospitality, or other frontline, shift-based workforce environments is strongly preferred.
• Sound understanding of right-to-work compliance and pre-employment checking requirements.
• Confident communicator with strong relationship-building skills and the ability to work effectively with managers at all levels.
• Highly organised, with excellent attention to detail and the ability to manage competing priorities in a busy environment.

Desirable Skills

• Experience recruiting for regulated roles subject to CQC or similar oversight.
• Familiarity with Skilled Worker visa sponsorship and the UKVI framework.
• Experience managing agency relationships and negotiating commercial terms.
• Knowledge of employer branding and candidate attraction strategies.

Package and Benefits

Competitive salary based on experience.

Ongoing professional development and CIPD support.

Employee assistance programme and wellbeing support.

The opportunity to make a real difference in a values-led organisation that puts residents and colleagues at the heart of everything we do.

Kara Healthcare is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.