Recruitment Consultant, Education
- Salary: £34,000 to £40,000 plus commission
- Contract: Permanent
- Location: Superb office space in a manor house, Edgbaston
- Requirement: Experienced in education recruitment
- Desk: Warm. You inherit live clients, active jobs, and an existing candidate pool
You run a desk. You fill supply and long-term bookings, manage permanent vacancies, and grow accounts. You build strong relationships with schools. You deliver staffing fast, safely, and consistently. Education recruitment is high volume, safeguarding-led, and unforgiving if your data is messy.
- Warm desk, hit the ground running means
- You take over existing school accounts with regular requirements.
- You inherit active pipelines and current candidates.
- You focus on service, fill-rate, and growth, rather than spending months begging for your first vacancy.
Client management and school relationships
- Manage day-to-day staffing requirements for your schools, including short notice cover and planned absences.
- Take detailed job briefs from schools, confirm expectations, and agree timescales.
- Build trust through regular check-ins and school visits, then turn service into repeat bookings and exclusivity.
- Match teachers, cover supervisors, TAs, and SEN staff to roles based on experience, location, and suitability.
- Book candidates, confirm arrival details, and handle last-minute changes without melting down.
- Maintain a forward pipeline for known needs, exams, maternity cover, interventions, and long-term roles.
- Interview and register candidates, assess classroom ability, and set expectations on standards and conduct.
- Coach candidates through placements, performance feedback, and school-specific requirements.
- Keep candidates warm with consistent contact so you reduce dropouts and protect fill rates.
- Oversee compliance for every placement, including right to work checks, DBS status, references, and full vetting records.
- Ensure candidates meet education safeguarding expectations before they set foot in a school.
- Keep documentation and audit trails clean, because schools and audits do not care about excuses.
- Grow existing accounts through service, upsell, and expanding into new departments, key stages, and sites.
- Identify new schools to target, make sales calls, and win new requirements to increase market share.
- Negotiate rates and margins in line with desk targets and market conditions.
- Use the CRM properly. Track calls, bookings, compliance status, availability, and outcomes.
- Produce shortlists and candidate profiles quickly and accurately.
- Monitor KPIs like fill rate, time to fill, availability coverage, and conversion from temp to long-term or perm.
- Proven experience billing within education recruitment.
- Strong knowledge of supply, long-term cover, and education compliance basics.
- Confidence with phone-based sales and candidate control.
- Pace, resilience, and the ability to prioritise fast when schools change plans in real time.
- £34,000 to £40,000 plus commission
- Warm desk with live schools and immediate roles to fill
- Strong brand and office base in Edgbaston, in a manor house, because humans love networking in buildings built for period dramas
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