Workforce Manager - NHS | Healthcare

Location: London (2-3 days onsite)

Contract Length: 6-Months initially

Rate: Inside IR35

A newly established national healthcare organisation is seeking an experienced Workforce Manager/Recruitment & Mobilisation Lead to coordinate a major recruitment and onboarding programme.

The organisation is building its workforce infrastructure from the ground up and plans to recruit and onboard up to 100 employees during its first year. With recruitment administration supported by an external provider, this role will focus on workforce planning, hiring-manager support, process control, onboarding assurance and accurate reporting

Key Responsibilities

• Translate the approved workforce structure into prioritised recruitment plans.
• Coordinate recruitment activity with hiring managers and external delivery partners.
• Track vacancies through approval, attraction, selection, offer, employment checks and start date.
• Own the workforce mobilisation tracker and end-to-end onboarding process.
• Ensure compliance with NHS Employment Check Standards and safer recruitment requirements.
• Maintain accurate establishment, vacancy and position-control information.
• Develop recruitment dashboards covering vacancies, offers, checks, starts and time to hire.
• Identify recruitment risks, dependencies and process blockages.
• Support ESR, NHS Jobs and recruitment process improvement.

Essential Experience

• Significant NHS recruitment, resourcing or workforce-services experience.
• Strong knowledge of NHS employment checks and safer recruitment requirements.
• Experience coordinating multiple end-to-end recruitment campaigns.
• Experience managing or coordinating outsourced recruitment providers.
• Strong onboarding, workforce mobilisation and reporting experience.
• Knowledge of workforce planning, establishment control and recruitment metrics.
• Excellent stakeholder management, organisation and problem-solving skills.

Desirable Experience

• Recruitment delivery at scale.
• ESR and NHS Jobs experience.
• Experience establishing recruitment processes for a new service or organisation.
• Operational HR or Agenda for Change knowledge.
• CIPD, recruitment, project or process-improvement qualification.