Kara Healthcare is a quality care provider devoted to delivering first-class dementia, nursing, residential, and respire care to residents living in our homes. We believe our residents deserves choice, dignity, and independence.

Our main focus is to create a friendly, safe, and warm environment for everyone in our homes. Tailored care plans and 24-hour personal support for each resident help us achieve this. We offer a wide variety of care options from short and long-term residential to person-centred nursing care.

Kara Healthcare are continuously looking to recruit talented individuals to join our caring, enthusiastic, and supportive team. Everyone here has a fundamental part to play in our continued success and growth. Follow our CEO Nitesh Somani or Kara Healthcare LinkedIn to find out more about us.

Job Overview

The Recruitment Consultant will play a key role in delivering high-volume, high-quality recruitment across our care homes in the Northeast and East Midlands regions. Reporting into the Chief People Officer, you will be responsible for managing end-to-end recruitment processes, building strong talent pipelines, and supporting hiring managers to attract and retain exceptional care professionals. This is a fast-paced, operationally focused role requiring strong stakeholder management, compliance awareness, and a proactive sourcing approach.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end recruitment across care and operational roles

• Build and maintain strong candidate pipelines using job boards, LinkedIn, referrals and community outreach

• Partner closely with Home Managers and Regional Teams to understand workforce needs

• Ensure all recruitment activity meets regulatory and safer recruitment standards

• Conduct screening interviews and coordinate interviews with hiring managers

• Monitor recruitment KPIs including time-to-fill, cost-per-hire and retention trends

• Support onboarding processes in collaboration with HR and Compliance teams

• Strengthen employer brand presence across LinkedIn and relevant platforms

• Support workforce planning initiatives aligned to organisational growth

About You

• Proven recruitment experience (agency or in-house), ideally within healthcare, social care or regulated sectors

• Strong understanding of safer recruitment and compliance requirements

• Confident managing multiple vacancies in a fast-paced environment

• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills

• Commercially aware with strong organisational capability

• Proactive, resilient and solutions-focused

Requirements

• Previous experience recruiting within care, healthcare or similar regulated environments

• Understanding of DBS, right-to-work checks and employment compliance

• Full UK driving licence desirable

• Strong IT and systems capability

Package and Benefits

• Competitive salary

• Performance-related bonus opportunity

• Career development within a growing organisation

• Supportive, collaborative People Team

• Opportunity to contribute to workforce transformation initiatives