Recruitment and Retention Officer

🌟 Recruitment & Retention Officer Be the Driving Force Behind Building Exceptional Care Teams 📍 Location: Blackpool Head Office 🕒 Hours: 37.5 Hours per Week, Monday to Friday (Office-Based) 💷 Pay: £13.25 per Hour 📄 Contract: Permanent, Full-Time 🚗 Essential: Full UK Driving Licence and Access to Your Own Vehicle At ICare, we believe that outstanding care starts with outstanding people. We're looking for a passionate, proactive, and people-focused Recruitment & Retention Officer to join our growing team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a vital role in attracting, engaging, and retaining the talented individuals who deliver exceptional care within our communities. Our ICARE Values Everything we do is guided by our ICARE values: 🔹 I - Inclusion Everyone deserves to feel valued, heard and supported. 🔹 C - Compassion We treat people with kindness, understanding and dignity. 🔹 A - Aspire We help people achieve their personal goals and ambitions. 🔹 R - Respect We value individuality and promote choice and independence. 🔹 E - Empowerment We support people to live their lives to the fullest. What You'll Be Doing As our Recruitment & Retention Officer, you'll take a leading role in ensuring ICare attracts and retains exceptional talent across our services. Key Responsibilities ✅ Create engaging, high-impact job adverts that attract quality candidates. ✅ Source candidates through job boards, social media, recruitment fairs, networking opportunities, and innovative recruitment campaigns. ✅ Build strong partnerships with Hiring Managers and support recruitment planning across multiple locations. ✅ Deliver an outstanding candidate experience from application through to onboarding. ✅ Arrange interviews and provide recruitment guidance to operational managers. ✅ Conduct pre-employment checks, references, right-to-work checks, and compliance processes. ✅ Ensure candidates complete onboarding requirements and mandatory training. ✅ Produce recruitment reports and analyse recruitment trends. ✅ Develop relationships with Job Centres, colleges, community organisations, and local employment providers. ✅ Attend and organise recruitment events and job fairs. ✅ Conduct exit interviews and support retention initiatives aimed at improving employee engagement and reducing turnover. What We're Looking For We are seeking someone who is: ✔ Motivated, organised, and highly detail-oriented. ✔ Passionate about recruitment and candidate engagement. ✔ An excellent communicator with strong written and verbal skills. ✔ Creative when it comes to attracting talent. ✔ Confident building relationships with people at all levels. ✔ Able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment. ✔ Professional, trustworthy, and discreet when handling confidential information. ✔ Positive, resilient, and solution-focused. ✔ A team player who embraces our ICARE values. ✔ A driver with access to their own vehicle and a full UK driving licence. Essential Experience & Skills

• Previous recruitment experience
• Strong administrative and organisational skills
• Experience sourcing candidates through multiple channels
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills, including Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint
• Ability to work independently and manage competing priorities
• Experience building effective stakeholder relationships
• Full UK Driving Licence and access to a vehicle Desirable
• Recruitment experience within the Health and Social Care sector
• Experience recruiting across multiple locations
• Knowledge of recruitment fairs and community engagement initiatives
• Understanding of employee retention and engagement strategies Why Choose ICare? At ICare, you're more than just an employee. You're part of a supportive and ambitious team dedicated to making a difference every day. We Offer: ✨£13.25 per hour ✨ Friendly and supportive working environment ✨ Weekly pay ✨ Stakeholder Pension Scheme ✨ Blue Light Card reimbursement ✨ Career development opportunities ✨ Equal Opportunities Employer ✨ Opportunity to play a key role within a growing and successful organisation Why You'll Love Working Here Joining ICare means joining a company where your ideas matter, your achievements are recognised, and your contribution genuinely makes a difference. You'll help shape the future workforce of an organisation that changes lives every day while developing your own career within a supportive, forward-thinking team. 📢 Ready to Help Build the Future of Care? Apply now and become part of ICare family. Inclusion | Compassion | Aspire | Respect | Empowerment 💙 Changing Lives Through Great People.