Recruitment apprenticeship

Summary

Nexter is a specialist childcare recruitment agency with our head office based in Carr Mills, Birstall. We supply qualified temporary nursery staff to private day nurseries across West Yorkshire and South East London.

We are looking for an ambitious, confident, and motivated Apprentice Recruitment Resourcer to join our team. 

Wage

£16,640 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices

The right candidate will start on £9.50 per hour + Performance Bonus

Training course

Recruiter (level 3)

Hours

Monday to Friday, 8:00am – 4:30pm (or 8:30am – 5:00pm)

40 hours a week

Start date

Wednesday 30 September 2026

Duration

1 year 5 months

Positions available

1

Work

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

What you'll do at work

• Candidate Sourcing: Learn how to search job boards, review CVs, and find qualified nursery practitioners and assistants looking for temporary work.
• Telephone Screening & Vetting: Conduct telephone interviews, check work histories, and assist with essential safeguarding compliance (DBS checks, references).
• Nursery Outreach & Market Research: Contact private day nurseries across London to identify staffing needs, update contact details for managers, and introduce available staff for upcoming sickness cover.
• Shift Booking Coordination: Learn how to take booking briefs from nurseries and quickly allocate available staff to fill emergency shifts.
• CRM & Administration: Maintain neat, accurate candidate and client records on our recruitment software.
• Candidate Sourcing: Learn how to search job boards, review CVs, and find qualified nursery practitioners and assistants looking for temporary work.
• Telephone Screening & Vetting: Conduct telephone interviews, check work histories, and assist with essential safeguarding compliance (DBS checks, references).
• Nursery Outreach & Market Research: Contact private day nurseries across London to identify staffing needs, update contact details for managers, and introduce available staff for upcoming sickness cover.
• Shift Booking Coordination: Learn how to take booking briefs from nurseries and quickly allocate available staff to fill emergency shifts.
• CRM & Administration: Maintain neat, accurate candidate and client records on our recruitment software.

Where you'll work

HOWCROFT HOUSE
919 BRADFORD ROAD
BIRSTALL
BATLEY
WF17 9JX

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Training provider

JUNIPER TRAINING LIMITED

Training course

Recruiter (level 3)

What you'll learn

• Identify, progress, and convert leads into new candidates, placements, or clients.
• Source vacancies in line with stakeholder requirements and organisational policies and procedures.
• Manage and maintain stakeholder relationships and their role within the recruitment process.
• Interpret and apply regulation and legislation, share best practice, and advise stakeholders on their application.
• Plan and manage recruitment campaigns to attract candidates, including agreeing objectives with stakeholders and monitoring performance.
• Research, identify and attract candidates using methods to satisfy job requirements, including those with transferrable skills to move from the legacy carbon economy to green economy jobs.
• Process, review, and progress candidate applications.
• Create and present diverse short lists of candidates to stakeholders.
• Inform and advise candidates on the outcome of their application at the individual stages of the recruitment process, including those that have been unsuccessful.
• Manage the recruitment and selection process for candidates, including those who require reasonable adjustments.
• Communicate information through different media, for example face-to-face or online meetings, emails, reports, and presentations.
• Engage with stakeholders to review recruitment processes and identify opportunities for continuous improvement and improving own performance.
• Review services provided and implemented improvements based on stakeholder feedback.
• Place candidates into roles that match their skills and stakeholder requirements.
• Use technology and software tools to manage information, ensuring compliance with organisation and legislation requirements.
• Challenge poor practice and non-compliance with the recruitment process and escalate where appropriate.
• Identify future changes in the sector that may impact the organisation, for example technology advances.
• Interpret policies to support and promote the delivery of equity, diversity, and inclusion in the workplace, and monitor their impact on recruitment activities.
• Identify and apply sustainable and greener methods of working, for example reducing energy and paper consumption, managing diaries to reduce carbon emissions (hold virtual meetings or attend multiple external meetings on the same day), considering greener options when booking venues for assessment centres or planning recruitment campaigns.
• Identify and maximise opportunities to support the organisation’s business strategy, for example growing client or candidate pipelines.
• Manage resources within budget requirements.
• Respond to stakeholder complaints and escalate where appropriate.
• Identify, progress, and convert leads into new candidates, placements, or clients.
• Source vacancies in line with stakeholder requirements and organisational policies and procedures.
• Manage and maintain stakeholder relationships and their role within the recruitment process.
• Interpret and apply regulation and legislation, share best practice, and advise stakeholders on their application.
• Plan and manage recruitment campaigns to attract candidates, including agreeing objectives with stakeholders and monitoring performance.
• Research, identify and attract candidates using methods to satisfy job requirements, including those with transferrable skills to move from the legacy carbon economy to green economy jobs.
• Process, review, and progress candidate applications.
• Create and present diverse short lists of candidates to stakeholders.
• Inform and advise candidates on the outcome of their application at the individual stages of the recruitment process, including those that have been unsuccessful.
• Manage the recruitment and selection process for candidates, including those who require reasonable adjustments.
• Communicate information through different media, for example face-to-face or online meetings, emails, reports, and presentations.
• Engage with stakeholders to review recruitment processes and identify opportunities for continuous improvement and improving own performance.
• Review services provided and implemented improvements based on stakeholder feedback.
• Place candidates into roles that match their skills and stakeholder requirements.
• Use technology and software tools to manage information, ensuring compliance with organisation and legislation requirements.
• Challenge poor practice and non-compliance with the recruitment process and escalate where appropriate.
• Identify future changes in the sector that may impact the organisation, for example technology advances.
• Interpret policies to support and promote the delivery of equity, diversity, and inclusion in the workplace, and monitor their impact on recruitment activities.
• Identify and apply sustainable and greener methods of working, for example reducing energy and paper consumption, managing diaries to reduce carbon emissions (hold virtual meetings or attend multiple external meetings on the same day), considering greener options when booking venues for assessment centres or planning recruitment campaigns.
• Identify and maximise opportunities to support the organisation’s business strategy, for example growing client or candidate pipelines.
• Manage resources within budget requirements.
• Respond to stakeholder complaints and escalate where appropriate.

Training schedule

Training will be with Juniper Training.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

• english (grade 4)
• Maths (grade 4)

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Skills

• Communication skills
• IT skills
• Attention to detail
• Organisation skills
• Customer care skills
• Administrative skills
• Analytical skills
• Team working
• Initiative