Recruitment Consultant, Education

Recruitment Consultant, Education
 
Key details

• 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

 
The role
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.

 
What you will do
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.

 
Filling bookings and managing the pipeline

• 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.

 
Candidate management and delivery

• 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.

 
Compliance and safeguarding

• 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.

 
Business development and desk growth

• 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.

 
Data and process

• 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.

 
What you need

• 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.

 
What you get

• £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

 
Due to the number of applications, only successful applicants will be contacted