Job Title: Recruitment Coordinator, Cabot Learning Federation (CLF)
Actual Annual Salary: £28,859 - £31,111
Location: Hybrid, flexible working
Contract: Permanent, Full Time, All-Year-Round
Hours: 37 hours per week. Core hours are 8am-4pm Monday-Thursday and 8am-3.30pm on a Friday. Mixture of work from home, the HR office in Kingswood and at allocated academies.
Provisional Start Date: Monday 17th November /ASAP
Are you passionate about attracting top talent and making a real impact in education?
Due to the career progression of a valued team member, we’re delighted to offer an exciting opportunity for a Recruitment Coordinator to join our Central Recruitment Team. In this role, you’ll work with academies across all phases of education, helping to recruit outstanding teachers and support staff. Your work will make a real difference, positively impacting thousands of pupils across the South West.
You’ll enjoy a varied workload, managing end-to-end recruitment activities for a number of academies within our cluster regions. Working as part of a collaborative team, but also with the autonomy to manage your own workload, you’ll be placing advertisements, supporting candidate attraction for key/hard to fill roles and providing robust and measured pre-employment compliance checks – all of this is underpinned by streamlined systems and processes to efficiently support all recruitment activities.
We’re looking for someone with excellent attention to detail and strong organisational skills, able to manage compliance responsibilities while bringing fresh ideas to recruitment advertising.
Whether you’re new to education or looking for a fresh challenge, join us in our mission to make a lasting impact on the children in our care!
Why Work in CLF’s Recruitment Team?
We offer:
- A chance to expand your recruitment experience and knowledge in the education sector, through working in a supportive and skilled recruitment team.
- Leadership in end-to-end recruitment for academies, including advertising, candidate attraction, and compliance checks.
- Flexible, hybrid work from home, our Kingswood office in Bristol and onsite at academies.
- Recruitment experience across primary, secondary, special and alternative provision academies, offering a variety of work with a range of different education professionals.
- Career development and growth opportunities across the trust and the chance to gain wider knowledge of HR practices through working as part of a large Central HR Team.
What You Will Need to Succeed:
- Attention to detail, excellent organisation and the ability to prioritise and manage a varied workload in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong relationship-building skills and able to proactively engage with key stakeholders to meet recruitment and compliance needs.
- Excellent experience in delivering end-to-end recruitment activities, with the ability to manage a range of different daily recruitment tasks, whilst ensuring key in-house processes are followed in order to adhere to KCSIE guidelines.
- Passion for promoting equity in education through recruitment activities.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Your Opportunity:
Join the Cabot Learning Federation, serving 18,000+ pupils across 36 academies in five cluster regions across the South West. We are a diverse and inclusive community committed to excellence and making a positive impact. Our people bring unique perspectives, but we’re all driven by a commitment to excellence and a passion for making a positive impact. We’re proud to foster a culture where everyone can thrive, feel valued, and make a meaningful difference in the lives of others.
What We Can Offer You:
- A starting salary of £28,859, with incremental increases throughout the CLF Grade C band, up to £31,111.
- Access to a generous pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
- A comprehensive induction and ongoing commitment to wellbeing and career progression, through a range of training, apprenticeships and in-role/wider-trust development opportunities.
- Well-being support through an Employee Assistance Programme.
- Health benefits, including wellness sessions, gym discounts, and flu jab reimbursement.
- A range of generous family leave options, including above industry average occupational maternity pay.
- Additional benefits like childcare vouchers, cycle to work scheme, and on-site parking.
Recruitment Timeline:
- Closing Date: Thursday 2 October 2025
- Shortlisting & Invites: Friday 3 October 2025
- * Interviews: Friday 10 October 2025
*Interviews will be held at Federation House, King's Oak Academy, Brook Road, Kingswood, Bristol BS15 4JT, with final timings to be confirmed.
As part of our commitment to Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE), we do not accept CVs – a full education and employment history must be provided through our application form.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early, should we receive a high level of interest in the role. Therefore, candidates are advised to apply at their earliest convenience to avoid missing out.
The Cabot Learning Federation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All roles across the trust have a varying level of responsibility for ensuring safeguarding practice, with some roles holding significant responsibility and involving working with children on a daily basis in regulated activity. Regardless of the level of responsibility and involvement in each role, we expect all staff, visiting professionals and volunteers to share this commitment.
All successful candidates will undergo a comprehensive pre-employment checking process, including an enhanced DBS check (including a further check against the appropriate barred list), references from current and previous employers, health, right to work in the UK, child disqualification, prohibition from teaching/management and online checks. You must also tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
