Recruitment Officer - 12 month fixed term contract

The closing date is 20 October 2025

We are seeking an experienced Recruitment Officer to oversee recruitment activity within our Unplanned Care Division, covering a 12-month secondment.

This is a fast-paced role, ideal for someone who can quickly adapt and take initiative. While we're looking for someone who can hit the ground running, additional training and support will be provided for candidates who demonstrate the core competencies required.

The service operates across both Hillingdon and Mount Vernon sites, with flexibility for some remote working from home. Working hours are between 9am and 5pm.

Main duties of the job

This is a full end-to-end recruitment role, including:

• Managing and advising your division on recruitment strategy and processes
• Providing a professional recruitment and advisory service to managers and candidates
• Vacancy management using TRAC
• Processing new starters and internal changes via ESR
• Conducting pre-employment checks
• Managing visa applications
• Participating in interviews when required
• Supporting international nursing recruitment
• Contributing to additional recruitment projects as needed

What We're Looking For

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Proven experience in recruitment, ideally within the NHS or a similar setting
• Ability to work independently and manage competing priorities
• Familiarity with TRAC and ESR systems is desirable

If you're ready to make an impact and support our recruitment goals, we'd love to hear from you.

Interview date: 23rd October 2025

About us

The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the only acute Hospital in the London Borough of Hillingdon and offers a wide range of services including accident and emergency, inpatient care, day surgery, outpatient clinics and maternity services. The Trust's services at Mount Vernon Hospital include routine day surgery, delivered at a modern treatment centre, a minor injuries unit and outpatient clinics.

The safety and well-being of our patients and of our staff is paramount and we are making urgent improvements to address this - particularly in infection prevention and control. We are making progress and going forward by working in partnership with local GPs, charities, community services, academic partners, our local authority, neighbouring hospitals and the wider North West London Integrated care system, and ensuring that we listen and work in partnership with our local population. We are absolutely focused on ensuring that our hospitals provide high quality, safe and compassionate care, while drive forward the building of the new Hillingdon Hospital.

We have over 3,500 members of staff that are proud to care for nearly half a million people, with a vision to be an outstanding provider of healthcare through leading health and academic partnerships, transforming services, to provide the best care where needed.

Job description

Job responsibilities

***For full details of this role, please see the job description and person specification attached***

Person Specification

Knowledge and skills based

Essential

• Equivalent work based Knowledge
• Managing and advising divisional hiring managers on recruitment process and procedures
• Ability to produce a variety of documents using Word for Windows, Excel and databases.
• TRAC and managing vacancies to targeted time to hire.
• Payroll ESR entry of new starters and internal changes
• Ability to work on own initiative without close supervision managing your Divisional workload.
• Ability to deal with large workflow and tight deadlines.

Desirable

• Prepared or working towards CIPD qualification
• Work within a Medical or HR department.
• Shortlisting and interviewing skills
• International recruitment

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

The Hillingdon Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Working cross sites at Hillingdon and MV - plus some remote working

Mount Vernon Hospital

Rickmansworth Road, Northwood

HA6 2RN

Employer's website

https://www.thh.nhs.uk/index.php (Opens in a new tab)

£32,199 to £34,876 a year per annum pro rata inc HCAA

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

394-Corp-7533568DT

Job locations

Working cross sites at Hillingdon and MV - plus some remote working