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Social Care Recruitment Coordinator Employment Contract UK

Set high-volume hiring duties around candidate care, complete evidence and safe clearance into care services.

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19 June 2026
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Job description

Clear role overview and key responsibilities.

Probation period

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Role-specific duties

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Working hours

Standard and flexible working arrangements.

Holiday entitlement

Holiday terms explained for the selected arrangement.

Confidentiality

Client and company confidentiality.

Disciplinary process

Clear process and employee rights.

Notice periods

Notice terms explained for both parties.

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When to use this contract

Manage vacancies candidates and interview schedules, complete screening and safer-check workflows, and maintain accurate candidate and clearance records.

Workplace context: Regulated care, clinical, education or service premises.

What makes this role different

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering the roles locations and recruitment targets. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering the applicant system and advertising channels. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering the checks offer and clearance authority. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering the data retention and safeguarding routes. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering company policies.

Not a fit / obtain specialist advice

Recheck the role or obtain appropriate advice if the work would exceed these maintained authority boundaries: A Care Recruitment Coordinator moves applicants from enquiry to interview, checks and onboarding across services that may face urgent staffing demand. Terms should cover truthful adverts, screening, identity and work status, references, role-appropriate vetting, interview records, conditional offers, occupational requirements and start-date clearance. The coordinator should not promise shifts before approval, bypass checks to meet a target or collect sensitive candidate documents through personal accounts. Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.

What to prepare before you issue it

  • the roles locations and recruitment targets
  • the applicant system and advertising channels
  • the checks offer and clearance authority
  • the data retention and safeguarding routes
  • the hiring managers HR vetting and payroll contacts

Day-to-day operating brief

What Recruitment Coordinator (Care) work looks like in practice

A Care Recruitment Coordinator moves applicants from enquiry to interview, checks and onboarding across services that may face urgent staffing demand. Terms should cover truthful adverts, screening, identity and work status, references, role-appropriate vetting, interview records, conditional offers, occupational requirements and start-date clearance. The coordinator should not promise shifts before approval, bypass checks to meet a target or collect sensitive candidate documents through personal accounts. Recruitment Coordinator (Care) is a social care role focused on employee lifecycle records, absence and performance processes, confidential personnel data, manager guidance, policy implementation, recruitment, coordinator, safeguarding. The contract should describe the role's practical duties, reporting route, records, standards and compliance obligations without importing wording from another industry The Employee is employed as Recruitment Coordinator (Care) in the Employer's Social Care business. The role requires reasonable skill, care, accuracy, cooperation with management instructions and attention to the records, risks and standards specific to recruitment coordinator (care) work The Employee must follow the social care operational controls that apply to recruitment coordinator (care) work, including CQC escalation, safeguarding, care records, supervision, training, incident reporting and safe working, accurate record keeping, escalation and safe working requirements The Employee must protect service-user, resident, family, safeguarding, care-plan, medication, rota and incident records, including any personal data, customer or client information, operational records, pricing, credentials, security information, business plans and role-specific records accessed while performing recruitment coordinator (care) duties Recruitment Coordinator (Care) work in Social Care must follow CQC expectations where they apply, the Employer's policies, data protection controls, health and safety rules, role records, escalation routes and training requirements relevant to employee lifecycle records, absence and performance processes, confidential personnel data. Family: care Recruitment Coordinator (Care) Safeguarding awareness Person-centred conduct Record accuracy

Responsibilities reflected in the contract

  • Manage vacancies candidates and interview schedules.
  • Complete screening and safer-check workflows.
  • Maintain accurate candidate and clearance records.
  • Coordinate offers inductions and service handovers.
  • Report delays withdrawals and staffing risks.

A realistic working scenario

A Care Recruitment Coordinator moves applicants from enquiry to interview, checks and onboarding across services that may face urgent staffing demand. Terms should cover truthful adverts, screening, identity and work status, references, role-appropriate vetting, interview records, conditional offers, occupational requirements and start-date clearance. The coordinator should not promise shifts before approval, bypass checks to meet a target or collect sensitive candidate documents through personal accounts.

Outputs to agree

  • manage vacancies candidates and interview schedules
  • complete screening and safer-check workflows
  • maintain accurate candidate and clearance records

Records and evidence

  • The roles locations and recruitment targets.
  • The applicant system and advertising channels.
  • The checks offer and clearance authority.
  • The data retention and safeguarding routes.
  • Work records.
  • Handover notes.

Reporting relationship

Typically reports to HR Manager, People Director or Operations Director. Confirm the employer's actual reporting structure in the builder.

Authority and escalation

  • A Care Recruitment Coordinator moves applicants from enquiry to interview, checks and onboarding across services that may face urgent staffing demand. Terms should cover truthful adverts, screening, identity and work status, references, role-appropriate vetting, interview records, conditional offers, occupational requirements and start-date clearance. The coordinator should not promise shifts before approval, bypass checks to meet a target or collect sensitive candidate documents through personal accounts.
  • Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.

Tools and systems

  • Care planning systems.
  • Mobility equipment.

Workplace context

  • Regulated care, clinical, education or service premises.

Training and certification

  • Complete employer-required safeguarding training.
  • Complete employer-required health and safety training.

Contract priorities

  • the roles locations and recruitment targets
  • the applicant system and advertising channels
  • the checks offer and clearance authority
  • the data retention and safeguarding routes

Information the employer should prepare

  • the roles locations and recruitment targets
  • the applicant system and advertising channels
  • the checks offer and clearance authority
  • the data retention and safeguarding routes
  • the hiring managers HR vetting and payroll contacts

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The facts this Recruitment Coordinator (Care) contract is built around

These role-pack details give an employer something concrete to check before using the contract for social care work.

Work setting

Regulated care, clinical, education or service premises.

Primary duties

  • Manage vacancies candidates and interview schedules.
  • Complete screening and safer-check workflows.
  • Maintain accurate candidate and clearance records.
  • Coordinate offers inductions and service handovers.

Tools and training to confirm

  • Care planning systems.
  • Mobility equipment.
  • Complete employer-required safeguarding training.
  • Complete employer-required health and safety training.

Governance focus

CQC context where applicable. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering the roles locations and recruitment targets. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering the applicant system and advertising channels. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering the checks offer and clearance authority.

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Recruitment Coordinator (Care) duties

Manage vacancies candidates and interview schedules, complete screening and safer-check workflows, and maintain accurate candidate and clearance records.

Manage vacancies candidates and interview schedules. Complete screening and safer-check workflows. Maintain accurate candidate and clearance records. Coordinate offers inductions and service handovers. Report delays withdrawals and staffing risks.

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A Care Recruitment Coordinator moves applicants from enquiry to interview, checks and onboarding across services that may face urgent staffing demand. Terms should cover truthful adverts, screening, identity and work status, references, role-appropriate vetting, interview records, conditional offers, occupational requirements and start-date clearance. The coordinator should not promise shifts before approval, bypass checks to meet a target or collect sensitive candidate documents through personal accounts.

Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering the roles locations and recruitment targets.

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering the applicant system and advertising channels.

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Frequently asked questions

Can candidates start while checks are pending?

Only under an authorised risk-controlled arrangement.

Who may issue an offer?

Define approval and conditional wording authority.

Can applicant documents use personal email?

No.

Are recruitment targets allowed?

Yes, but never at the expense of required checks.

How are gaps in employment handled?

Explore and record them consistently.

Can applicants be promised a location?

Only where that placement is approved.

Who decides suitability?

Set the hiring manager and HR roles.

What is handed over?

Clearance evidence, agreed terms, induction needs and open checks.

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