Recruiter Apprentice
ATHONA LIMITED
Essex (CM14 4HG)
Closes in 31 days (Sunday 7 September 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 6 August 2025
Contents
Summary
As a Resourcer Apprentice with Athona, you will have the opportunity to gain direct recruitment experience within a friendly, supportive environment while studying towards a qualification in Recruitment Resourcing. Duties include identifying and approaching candidates who will potentially fit the client’s requirements.
- Wage
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£14,750 a year
- Training course
- Recruiter (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday between 9.00am - 5.00pm (Breaks to be confirmed).
37 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 8 September 2025
- Duration
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1 year 1 month
- Positions available
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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
- Support the Senior Compliance Manager with file maintenance of registered candidates to ensure essential documents held, remain up-to-date
- Proactively contact and chase candidates via phone and email to obtain compliance documentation
- Advertise vacancies using relevant media
- Pre-screen candidates/applicants via the telephone and arrange for them to register with Athona Education Ltd
- Candidate regeneration – actively calling candidates from the archive dataset to update their availability to work
- Assist with answering incoming calls and responding to candidate queries in a professional manner, providing excellent customer service via the telephone
- Conduct face-to-face interviews with candidates (where applicable)
- Take an active part in candidate open days & registration days to register new candidates
- Achieve set candidate registration KPIs
- Achieve set call time KPIs
- Any other ad hoc duties deemed reasonable by the company
Where you'll work
1 King Edward Road
Brentwood
Essex
CM14 4HG
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
RM TRAINING (UK) LIMITED
Training course
Recruiter (level 3)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- 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
Level 3 Recruiter Apprenticeship Standard, which includes:
- Recruitment (Level 3)
- 13-month in workplace training
- End-Point Assessment (EPA)
- Functional Skills (if needed)
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
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
- Team working
- Initiative
Other requirements
• Delivering results • Target driven • Attention to detail • Customer service and relationship building with internal and external candidates, clients and team members • Time management and dealing with ambiguity • Highly motivated • Team-oriented
About this employer
Athona was established in 2003. We initially focussed on recruiting doctors, but the quality of our work and consistent growth has led to us supporting AHPs, doctors and nurses, and all related specialisms on a locum, permanent and contract basis. As demand has grown, so has our reputation within the the NHS and private healthcare sectors. Today, we’re proudly on all major NHS frameworks and support many of the biggest private healthcare organisations. But despite this continued growth, we’ve remained a close-knit team of experts passionate about the work we do, and aware of the important role we play for our clients and candidates
https://www.athona.com/about-us/our-story/ (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
Support Bonus Scheme.
After this apprenticeship
- The possibility of a full-time position may be available once the apprenticeship has been completed however this is not guaranteed
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
RM TRAINING (UK) LIMITED
Sam Stokoe
Sam@rmtraining.co.uk
01702 782001
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000335945.
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Closes in 31 days (Sunday 7 September 2025 at 11:59pm)
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