Careers Advisor

CAREERS ADVISOR

Location: Winchester/Andover/Petersfield/Burnham (this role supports across four offices)

Bluebird Care – Where passion becomes expertise

We’re the best at what we do and it’s all thanks to talented people like you. As the leading Home Care provider , we take pride in our work - and we’re looking for a caring and dedicated person to join our CQC-outstanding Team as a Careers Advisor, to help us set the standard.

As a Careers Advisor, you’ll help our team grow, support our colleagues, and make a real difference every day. If you have compassion, communication, listening, and organisational skills, combined with initiative, positivity and a polite, friendly manner, then Bluebird Care is where you belong.

Responsibilities

As a Careers Advisor your key responsibilities will include:

• Promoting anti-discriminatory practice in recruitment and selection.
• Answering initial recruitment enquiries and providing the potential new recruit with all the information about working for our service
• Asking questions to engage the potential new recruit and listening fully to understand their situation
• Gathering and documenting applicant information
• Arranging interviews and sending relevant correspondence
• Managing pre-employment documentation and booking appropriate skills assessment
• Following up to ensure interviews are booked
• Ensuring database is maintained and fully updated
• Supporting the Authorising Officer with obtaining the correct documentation from candidates who require visa sponsorship
• Informing potential sponsorship candidates of the process and the expectations
• Being prepared to work flexibly as part of the Bluebird Care team.

Benefits

• £25-£30k p/a
• 28 days of annual leave
• Full training and development opportunities
• Ongoing support from a friendly and committed leadership team
• Professional development and industry-leading training
• Supportive, inclusive team environment
• Career progression opportunities
• Pension scheme
• Health & wellbeing programme (up to £1,000/yr cashback)
• Blue Light Card and vehicle repairs scheme
• Ongoing professional development

Requirements

• Proven experience in recruitment field, preferably within Health and Social Care 
  • Relevant social care qualification, or willing to work towards gaining this qualification
• Excellent customer service skills and telephone manner
• Good administrative skills and computer literacy
• Full driver’s licence with no more than 6 points, Class 1 business insurance and a current MOT (if using own car for business purposes).

If you care deeply, Bluebird Care makes sure you have the time you need to do what you do best, the training so you can keep doing it better and the rewards that delivering such high-quality care deserves.

Bluebird Care is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

DBS checking and references will be undertaken in line with government regulations and recruitment best practices.