Recruitment Specialist

Location London

Salary Competitive

Contract Fixed Term

The Role

Recruitment Specialist

📍 Remote (with regular travel to prison sites in London and surrounding areas)
🕒 Fixed-Term Contract – 6 to 9 Months

At PeoplePlus, we’re committed to transforming lives through learning and skills. As part of our mission, we’re recruiting a Recruitment Specialist, focused on delivering an exceptional recruitment experience and attracting outstanding Tutors to support our prison education programmes.

This is an excellent opportunity for a recruiter who thrives on purpose-led work, is confident working autonomously, and can bring creativity, energy, and focus.

What you’ll be doing

You’ll be responsible for the end-to-end recruitment lifecycle, from understanding the needs of hiring managers to onboarding new hires. Your focus will be on proactively identifying, engaging, and converting top talent, while ensuring a positive and inclusive candidate experience at every stage.

Partnering with hiring managers to plan and deliver effective recruitment campaigns
Proactively sourcing and attracting candidates via job boards, social media, and direct outreach
Creating compelling job advertisements and employer brand content
Screening and assessing candidates, and presenting high-quality shortlists
Coordinating interviews, feedback, offers, and onboarding processes
Maintaining accurate records in our ATS and trackers
Representing PeoplePlus at recruitment fairs, events, and networking opportunities
Promoting diversity, inclusion, and safeguarding in all aspects of recruitment
Providing regular insights and reporting to improve recruitment practice

This role requires regular travel to prisons and education sites, so you’ll need to be comfortable working in these environments and confident managing recruitment on the ground as well as remotely.

What you’ll need

We’re looking for someone who brings more than just recruitment experience. You’ll be a natural relationship builder, an excellent communicator, and someone who takes pride in finding the right person for the right role.

Proven experience managing full-cycle recruitment
Strong sourcing and headhunting skills
Creative flair for writing adverts and engaging content
Comfortable working across multiple priorities and campaigns
Confident using ATS and recruitment technology
Passion for candidate experience and employer brand
Ability to analyse data and continuously improve recruitment outcomes
A full driving licence or ability to travel independently to prison sites

Who We Are

Here are PeoplePlus, we are committed to transforming the lives of people with convictions through our work in prisons.

Our services have been designed to tackle the underlying causes of offending behaviour so people can make positive changes to their lives.

With more than 500 people working to support people with convictions in custody and in the community, we bring passion, experience and innovation to public sector rehabilitation services.

We also work with specialist partner organisations to help people move away from their past and look forward to a brighter future.

All of our services are designed in partnership with the people who we’re trying to help and away from our direct work with people serving their sentences, we’re working hard to change attitudes towards people who can often be tarnished unfairly following criminal convictions. Our Social Recruitment Framework brings together organisations to tackle any pre-conceived ideas about hiring people who have previously been involved in crime.

We also work with employers on the Ban the Box initiative to support fair and equal recruitment processes and have engaged industry to influence our employer-led curriculum delivered to our learners.

We are extremely proud to be a Silver accredited Investors in People organisation. This means that at PeoplePlus, the right principles are in place but more than that, it means our people and leaders are making active efforts to make sure that there’s real consistency and everyone in the organisation can feel the effects.

Our Benefits

A paid PeoplePlus Life Event Day each year

30 days annual leave for Teaching roles / 25 days for support roles

Cycle to Work scheme

Access to hundreds of discounts via the Additions portal

Employee Assistance Programme

Access to online wellbeing centre

Enhanced Wedding leave

A paid volunteering day each year

Enhanced Maternity scheme

Sharesave
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Refer a Friend reward scheme

Holiday purchase scheme

Pension
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Testimonials

"What I love about working in a prison environment is that no 2 days are the same. You are a number of different roles such as counsellor, adviser and at times the person that makes a difference in that individual’s life.

There are also good career opportunities for an individual. I started as a supply tutor and I am now an assistant manager. At PeoplePlus you are given the opportunities to gain new skills and qualifications to enable you to be the best version of yourself."

"I have been lucky enough to work in a number of roles within PeoplePlus within the prison education sector, each of which has provided variety, challenge, and immense job satisfaction. The company recognises, values, and rewards the hard work of its employees, providing great professional development and career progression opportunities as well as a great range of perks and support for wellbeing."

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