Are you passionate about education and the difference it can make in the world?
Are you a confident and entrepreneurial recruiter or tuition coordinator looking for your next challenge in an innovative, sector leading recruitment agency?
Does the thought of joining a vibrant team who make it their mission to help teachers and pupils thrive fill your heart with joy?
Join Teaching Personnel.
Make a difference every day, in the lives of pupils, teachers and schools.
Part of the dynamically growing Supporting Education Group, Teaching Personnel is the UK’s leading education recruitment agency, with hundreds of thousands of teachers who have chosen us since 1996 and over 5,000 schools who choose us every year. We have 80+ branches across England & Wales and are the first-choice agency for over 12,000 job seekers.
We match talented educators with schools and whether it is finding the best teaching assistant to support literacy or a maths teacher to deliver curriculum continuity for a group of GCSE maths pupils, our teams go home at night knowing they have played a part in the education of thousands of pupils and in the careers of countless educators.
We are on an exciting journey of growth and we are looking for a driven and talented Trainee Recruitment Consultant to be part of Cardiff West Primary branch.
Who We Are: Cardiff West Primary
Sitting within the wider Teaching Personnel team, we are a nimble and energetic team of 4, based in Cardiff. We love working together and welcoming new colleagues, who are always supported to learn and develop as they begin an exciting new chapter within their career – after all, we’ve all been there! We are straight talkers and value open and fluid communication - it is our strong belief that everyone’s thoughts and ideas count in our journey of continuous improvement. We work hard, but we also have fun and celebrate our successes.
The role
As a Recruitment Consultant at Teaching Personnel, our main aim is to work collaboratively to bring schools, teachers and support staff together. We do our best to find educators their perfect role based on their experiences and preferences whilst coordinating and complementing the schools needs.
The main responsibilities of the position is to:
- Build on existing relationship and develop new relationships with your customers through providing high quality customer service.
- Attracting applicants through various forms of advertisements
- Screening, interviewing and leading applicants through our vetting process
- Proactively build and develop an educator database and match them to the right roles
- Maintain that all-important personal touch through regular face-to-face client visits, high impact sales conversations and ongoing engagement
- Meet and exceed agreed targets and objectives
What we look for in our people:
- An individual who is organised and can be relied upon to complete all tasks set out to complete
- An individual that enjoys being creative and using their own initiative
- Someone energetic and driven that can sniff out opportunities for business growth
- People skills – the whole role involves being able to communicate to a high standard with various clients, educators, colleagues, and organisations.
- Someone who isn’t shy to pick up the phone – it is a sales-based role after all!
What can Teaching Personnel offer?
- The opportunity to work alongside and be mentored by best-in-class sector professionals who love seeing you grow and flourish
- A career path that allows career progression and an opportunity to be promote more than once every year
- Uncapped commission structure
- Access to excellent training and development to support your career
- 28-day holiday entitlement which increases with service, excluding bank holidays
- Two award nights a year (Summer and Christmas)
- Local incentives with prizes varying from, free lunches, clothes vouchers, or time off
- Regular social/team bonding events, e.g. Spa days, meals and activities.
- Holiday prize draws
- Contributory stakeholder pension and insurance
If all this is making you wonder what it would be like to work with us, don’t hesitate: send us your CV and we will be in touch shortly to talk through next steps
All applicants will require the appropriate qualifications and training for this role. Please see the FAQ’s on the Teaching Personnel website for details.
All pay rates quoted will be inclusive of 12.07% statutory holiday pay. This advert is for a temporary position. In some cases, the option to make this role permanent may become available at a later date.
Teaching Personnel is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We undertake safeguarding checks on all workers in accordance with DfE statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ this may also include an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted applicants.
We offer all our registered candidates FREE child protection and prevent duty training. All candidates must undertake or have undertaken a valid enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. Full assistance provided.
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