Job at a glance
Are you a highly organised and detail-driven administrator with a passion for delivering accurate, compliant and high-quality recruitment processes? Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment where you can work autonomously, prioritise your own workload and apply sound judgement when handling sensitive and often complex information? Join the Cabot Learning Federation as a Recruitment Coordinator, where you'll play a vital role in our Central Recruitment Team to support our academies through safe, efficient and professionally delivered recruitment.
You'll act as a trusted point of contact for hiring managers, confidently coordinating end-to-end recruitment activities for a number of academies and applying your excellent planning, problem-solving and communication skills to ensure a smooth experience for both applicants and colleagues. You'll play a key role in delivering an efficient and professional rec ruitment service, ensuring recruitment activity runs smoothly through effective coordination, communication and compliance.
Your work will help academies secure the right people while upholding CLF's high standards for safeguarding. You'll bring a proactive, solutions-focused approach, using your strong administrative skills, sound judgement and confidence with digital systems to deliver consistent, compliant recruitment activity across your academies. You'll be someone who enjoys building constructive working relationships, developing networks and proactively identifying and engaging potential candidates to support current and future recruitment needs, while representing the Trust with professionalism and care.
In this role, you will: Manage end-to-end recruitment processes for a number of academies, balancing a busy and varied workload with confidence and strong organisational skills. Support candidate attraction, helping academies promote roles effectively - especially hard-to-recruit or specialist vacancies, through the use of social media, building external and internal networks of candidates and other attraction sources.
Undertake robust pre-employment checks in line with safer recruitment, Keeping Children Safe in Education, Ofsted requirements and HR regulations. Work autonomously to prioritise tasks, meet deadlines and ensure every stage of the recruitment cycle is completed accurately and on time. Use our electronic recruitment system to coordinate advertising, candidate communication, shortlisting packs, interview logistics, data entry and onboarding tasks.
Maintain meticulous and compliant records, ensuring accurate documentation, GDPR adherence and high-quality administrative outputs. Build strong professional relationships with academy leaders, hiring managers and HR colleagues, ensuring a smooth, consistent and friendly recruitment experience. Contribute positively to a collaborative team environment, while confidently making decisions and managing tasks independently.
Work closely with the HR Systems team to ensure accurate new-starter data and contribute to maintaining an up-to-date Single Central Record (SCR). Identify opportunities to improve recruitment processes, streamline workflows and enhance compliance. Why Join CLF's Recruitment Team? In this role, you'll enjoy: A friendly, collaborative and skilled recruitment team that values continuous learning. The opportunity to deepen your recruitment expertise across a wide range of roles, from classroom teachers to specialist support staff.
Hybrid working across home, our Kingswood office in Bristol and academy sites when required. Exposure to recruitment in primary, secondary, special and alternative provision settings, bringing variety and rich professional experience. Opportunities for career development across the wider Central HR Team, with access to training and projects that broaden your HR knowledge. You will bring: Excellent accuracy, attention to detail and strong administrative skills.
The ability to manage and organise competing priorities in a fast