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Posted 23 July, 2026

Regional Recruiter

Routes Healthcare (North)
Castleton, ENG, GB Full Time

Job Description

Regional Recruiter — Field-Based, Northern EnglandUp to £30,000 per annum + travel allowances | 6-month contract (potential to extend) | Full-timeNot your average recruitment job.We're not looking for someone to sit behind an ATS and screen CVs. We're looking for someone who can land in a town where Routes Healthcare has never operated, work out who's hiring, what they're paying, and where the candidates are — and then build a recruitment pipeline from nothing.Routes Healthcare is a CQC-registered homecare and complex care provider growing across Northern England. Every time we win a contract in a new area, someone has to get boots on the ground and make recruitment happen before the service goes live. That's this role.What you'll actually be doingVisiting new service areas to understand the local market first-hand — who the competitors are, what they pay, and where care workers actually look for jobsBuilding geography-specific recruitment strategies for hard-to-fill areas, from advertising channels down to community noticeboardsGetting out and building relationships — Jobcentre Plus, colleges, training providers, community groupsRunning attraction campaigns and building candidate pipelines, then handing applicants to our central team for screening and complianceReporting your market intelligence and pipeline progress straight to the Head of RecruitmentWhat we need from you2+ years' recruitment experience in a similar role — care sector or another hard-to-fill, high-volume fieldA genuine self-starter who can mobilise a recruitment campaign from scratch, without waiting to be told what to doFull UK driving licence and access to your own car — this is a field-based role and you'll be travelling regularlyTo live within commutable distance of Rochdale — our head office is here and you'll be working from it at timesConfidence talking to anyone, from a Jobcentre work coach to a college principalThe honest bitThis is a brand-new role on an initial 6-month contract. If it works — and we think it will — there's real potential for it to become something longer-term. You'll be shaping the role as you go, reporting directly to the Head of Recruitment, with the freedom to run your patch your way.Sound like you? Apply now — we move quickly.TPBN1_UKTJ