Recruitment Lead
Salary: Points 40-42 £37,865.20 - £39,817.44 per annum (pro rata)
Hours: 39 hours per week
Location: Remote/home working with requirement to attend meetings and work at The Action Group’s Prentice Centre Office in Edinburgh, when required. Travel to this location from home is not covered.
Requirements:
You must have excellent communication and organisation skills, ability to problem solve and be able to work in a fast paced, target driven environment. Although not essential, experience of working in a recruitment role and previous line manager experience is highly desirable.
About the Role A fantastic opportunity has opened for the right candidate to lead The Action Group’s Recruitment Team. The role will have 3 main functions:
- Engaging with our internal stakeholder to understand their recruitment needs
- Identifying the best opportunities for our recruitment activities
- Leading our recruitment team, ensuring best practice with regards to Safer Recruitment, ensuring excellent customer care and developing your team
How to apply
Send your CV and covering letter by Thursday 1st of October, 2026. Interviews will be held Tuesday 6th, Wednesday 7th and Thursday 8th October.
About The Role
We are looking for someone to join our dynamic Human Resources team in the role of Recruitment Lead. In this role, you will provide a comprehensive and professional recruitment support service to candidates joining The Action Group and to the managers in the organisation who are hiring.
We are a tight knit team of enthusiastic HR practitioners who are committed to the work we do. We are looking for a colleague who is resourceful, takes initiative and has excellent administrative skills including careful attention to detail. We also need someone with strong organisational skills and a passion for customer care.
The Action Group is an Investors in People Platinum Award winning organisation, and we demonstrate our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion by being a Disability Confident Leader and a proud Stonewall Diversity Champion. The Action Group is accredited as a Living Wage Employer
Main Purpose
- To improve our external recruitment activity and capacity, through your efforts, with priority to recruiting social care staff, for our services for the benefit of those we support. This will include networking; marketing to schools; other community locations and projects while increasing our digital profile and recruitment opportunities.
- You will take on the main role of “doing” much of our recruitment marketing outreach to places, people, and organisations in real time and digitally. This will mean working with our Comms and HR teams, as well as our Service managers etc to focus your and colleagues’ efforts into increasing the number of great people who join us in our social care roles.
1. General duties
In addition to the above, your role also requires you to:
a) Carry out duties in accordance with The Action Group standards, policies and procedures.
b) Support the Senior Managing Team in developing and adapting the recruitment strategy of The Action Group, by working internally and externally to increase the numbers of great support workers/Casual support workers and social care front line managers applying to work at The Action Group.
c) You will support your team to ensure that processing of recruitment activities is completed to a high standard and to agreed KPIs
d) Undertake any other duties as assigned. Whilst the role is positioned within the recruitment team, the HR function works as a team as a whole. There may therefore be the need for the post holder to help occasionally with a task not directly linked to recruitment.
2. Confidentiality
- High standards of confidentiality are required in relation to the roles, tasks and responsibilities described above.
3. Support & Reassurance Received
- The post holder will regularly meet their line manager for support & reassurance meetings as outlined in The Action Group’s support & reassurance policy.
4. Amendments
- This job description is not intended to be exhaustive and the post holder may be required to perform other duties on occasion.
- This job description may be amended following discussions with the post holder and with approval from the Human Resources Manager.
Required Criteria
- Acceptance and support of The Action Group’s values
- Demonstrates outstanding customer service skills
- Demonstrates a proactive approach to job responsibilities
- Hard working and self-motivated.
- Strong administrative skills.
- Experience in using a variety of software packages including Microsoft Word, Outlook and Excel
- Good prioritisation and time management skills
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to prioritise and manage a busy workload.
- A professional and credible approach to tasks and problems.
- Well organised
- Helpful and approachable manner.
- Good team player.
- An eye for detail.
- Available to work hours over five days – Monday to Friday
Desired Criteria
- Experience in a customer facing role.
- Forward thinking and creative.
- Awareness of safer recruitment practices.
- Experience of HR or recruitment administration.
- Certificate in Personnel/HR Practice or equivalent qualification.
About The Company
Our History
The Action Group was set up in 1976 by a group of parents and carers of people who had learning disabilities and other support needs. They began by campaigning for better services for the people they cared about in the local area of Leith and Restalrig. This group, who all lived in the north east of Edinburgh, took the name Area 5 Action Group from the Social Work Department’s area in which they lived.
Providing and Improving Learning Disability Care for Over 45 Years
The Action Group was, and continues to be, a membership organisation with the twin aims of campaigning for, and providing, good community care services. In 1976, services and supports in the community were few and far between and large institutions and hospitals, like Gogarburn in Edinburgh, were the main service for children and adults.
Locally, The Area 5 Action Group ran a high profile political and media campaign to get learning disability and support needs on the agenda. It also explored ways to develop service-provision
By 1985, now called The North Edinburgh Action Group, membership had grown and service users came from all over Edinburgh, East Lothian, West Lothian and Midlothian.
By 1992, with development plans focussing across an even wider area, a further name change to The Action Group was made.
Over the years the Action Group has been at the forefront of campaigning for and providing high quality community services.
Company Culture
The Vision
That Families caring for a person and individuals who have support needs and/or Learning Disability encounter no barriers to their chosen lifestyle, are able to follow a path of choice and can enrich their opportunities.
The Mission
To Value, listen and involve people so that our every action is judged to be the best.
The Values
An ordinary life includes the 5 accomplishments which derives from the work of John O'Brien.
These values are at the heart of the organisation.
People accessing our services should have:
Community presence - Relationships
Competency - Respect - Choice
Company Benefits
Looking to make a difference?
Make a difference in your community and in people’s lives by becoming a support worker with us!
Your goal will be to help people with additional support needs to gain or maintain their independence, and going about their lives in general, to support with work, health and wellbeing, or attending and participating in activities.
HSF Health Plans for The Action Group Full-time & Part-time employees
HSF Perkbox - HSF Assist
Accredited Living Wage Employer
Good annual leave entitlements
Travel time payable where applicable
Ongoing support, training and development opportunities
Pension
Blue Light Card
Blue Light Card, On the job learning
Salary
£37,865.20 - £39,817.44 per year
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