Trainee Recruitment Consultant

Teaching Personnel are hiring for a Recruitment Consultant to work within our Special Educational Needs team in Liverpool, this is a full time & permanent position starting ASAP. Applications are welcomed from individuals with no and prior experience in the education or recruitment sector, this is a challenging yet rewarding opportunity to forge a career in Education Recruitment with the UK’s market leading agency. Due to COVID - 19, this role will be remote working until otherwise specified (full IT equipment will be provided to support this). 

Main Duties and Responsibilities

As a Recruitment Consultant at Teaching Personnel, you are the vital link between our client schools and candidates. You will join a thriving Liverpool team, your role will be to work solely with Special Educational Needs Schools and Alternative provisions and work to expectations and targets to continue the growth within our Merseyside location.

To be successful as a Recruitment Consultant you will:

• Make a high volume of sales and business development calls to clients within your given area
• Build and develop your own candidate database by sourcing and recruiting quality teachers and support staff and matching them to temporary and permanent job placements
• Conduct face-to-face and virtual client meetings to build relationships with key decision makers in schools in order to successfully service your client schools
• Work to KPIs and targets in line with your branch and personal career ladder requirements
• Partake in the companies unique learning and development programme to enhance your recruitment knowledge and understanding of the job
• Support your team and achieve team targets as well as individual accolades

Salary and Benefits

In return for your efforts, we offer a great package consisting of:

• Annual basic salary starting from GBP20,000 per year to reflect skills and experience plus performance-related commission
• 25 days holiday + UK bank holidays, increasing with yearly service
• Significantly reduced working hours during the school holidays
• Unique and unrivalled Learning & Development programme
• Opportunity to forge a career in Education Recruitment and progress within TP
• Contributory pension scheme, life assurance
• Nationwide retail discounts and perks

Teaching Personnel specialise in supplying staff on a permanent and temporary basis to schools throughout the UK and Wales. We are currently recruiting for a talented individual to join us as a trainee or Recruitment Consultant. Due to COVID - 19, this role will be remote working until otherwise specified (full IT equipment will be provided to support this). 

Are you ambitious about a career and money motivated? Does the opportunity to work for the market leader within education recruitment appeal to you?

Whether you have prior experience in recruitment or would be joining as a Trainee Recruitment Consultant, our Liverpool location has a strong reputation throughout the company and is thriving. You will closely with all members of the team, but specifically recruit for and work within the Special Needs team. In addition to our learning and development programme for all new starters, you will receive unrivalled daily coaching and on-going support to ensure you are successful within this role. Previous experience in sales is not essential for this role, our support and training will give you the practical and theory elements needed to be a successful recruiter.

About Us

Teaching Personnel have provided a first-rate service to over 5,000 schools throughout the UK since 1996. We have registered hundreds of thousands of teachers and classroom support staff and are the first-choice agency for over 12,000 job seekers. We have 80+ branches across England & Wales, a career path that can take you to the very top and a culture that rewards hard work and promotes teamwork. Teaching Personnel is your place to thrive.

About You

The ideal applicant will have strong communication and interpersonal skills and an outgoing personality, tenacity and urgency are extremely important in a fast-paced environment like Education. They will also be resilient and have a passion for education, knowledge of the education sector would also be beneficial to the role.

You will be given opportunities to gain industry leading skills and experience. You will be pushed to explore your potential from day one by participating in our internal learning and development programme and receiving unrivalled support in branch. We have a specific career path for our Recruitment Consultants to progress. We review performance regularly and you may qualify for promotions up to 4 times per year.

Hours of Work

This role is offered on a full time, permanent basis (42.5 hours per week, 5 days per week).

Next Steps

To be considered for this role please apply with an up to date CV and we will be in touch.

For more information about why you should work for Teaching Personnel please visit our website and careers page.

We look forward to receiving your application!