Resourcing & Onboarding Administrator

£27,101 to £27,101 per year, Competitive

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full time

Disability Confident: No

Closing Date: 18/08/2026

About this job

The Role: Resourcing & Onboarding Administrator

Hybrid working. Full time, 40 hours per week. Salary: £27,101.40 per annum, OTE £33,101 including quarterly performance bonus.

The role is hybrid with the Resourcing and Onboarding Administrator working up to 3 days from home and 2 days per week at the Gateshead office.

We are looking for an enthusiastic Resourcing and Onboarding Administrator to join our team and support the onboarding processes for our Children's Residential Services across the UK. If you are passionate about providing exceptional support in a fast-paced environment, this is the opportunity for you!

The successful candidate will need to have experience working in an administrative role or recruitment/HR environment.

Who we are: Cambian Group is one of the UK's leading children's specialist education and behavioural health service provider.

Cambian provides a range of services, including residential care, specialist schools, and fostering, with a focus on children who have experienced complex trauma or have learning disabilities.

What does this role look like?

To ensure the effective, efficient and fully compliant management and processing of all candidate administration through the end-to-end Recruitment & Onboarding process, in line with all regulatory requirements.

To be the first point of contact for all onboarding administration queries both internally and externally.

To work closely alongside the Field Based Recruiter for the Region to support the end-to-end process and management of all vacancies and candidates.

Ensure that each pipeline is managed effectively and as quickly as possible, to ensure new starters begin as soon as possible.

Sign off Personnel Files, ensuring all regulatory and employment checks have been completed and compliant.

Build positive and engaging relationships with all key stakeholders, with good lines of proactive communication.

The delivery of fully compliant pre-employment checks and complete staff files for the operation to agreed SLA's and quality.

Monitor and report on Pipeline movement and advise on activity and process improvements to minimise candidate fallout each month.

Ensure any reporting and metrics are collated as required for Board and HR Reporting as required.

Liaise with Field Based Recruiter to understand activity and maximise all onboarding opportunities.

Key Qualities and Skills

• Articulate, personable, supportive and efficient.
• Able to think around a problem to resolve issues.
• Literate and numerate; comfortable with reporting and accuracy.
• Energetic, understands the need for urgency and is results driven.
• Organised, detail orientated and keen to complete.
• Precise and compliance focused.
• Resilient; not afraid of a challenge or hard work and can increase pace as and when necessary.
• A good judge of situations and can identify the key signals in a noisy environment.
• An assertive influencer; able to build collaborative relationships quickly and effectively.
• A team player; willing to 'join in' and happy to go out of their way to support others.

Benefits

• Competitive salary.
• Opportunity to progress in your career.
• Training opportunities either face to face or online.
• Wellbeing - Your wellbeing matters to us, and we are committed to ensuring you get all the support you need.
• Full induction, paid for DBS, friendly family atmosphere and the opportunity to progress with one of the UK's biggest care providers.
• Supportive management and senior leads.

Cambian is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

Cambian is committed to Safeguarding and protecting the young people and service users within our care.

All candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and reference checks.

Cambian will conduct online searches of shortlisted candidates. This check will be part of a safeguarding check, and the search will purely be based on whether an individual is suitable to work with children.

As care must be taken to avoid unconscious bias and any risk of discrimination, a person who will not be on the appointment panel will conduct the search and will only share information if and when findings are relevant and of concern.