Recruiter Apprentice

ATHONA LIMITED

Essex (CM14 4HG)

Closes in 20 days (Friday 3 April 2026 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 9 March 2026

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Summary

The Senior Sales Support role is crucial in driving the success of the recruitment team by providing dedicated sales and administrative support to the Recruitment Consultants. The primary focus will be on managing the candidate flow and being responsible for sourcing and managing candidates. 

Wage

£15,704 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

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Training course
Recruiter (level 3)
Hours
Monday- Friday 8:30am– 5:30pm.

40 hours a week

Start date

Tuesday 7 April 2026

Duration

1 year 1 month

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

Your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

  • Source candidates that align with the team’s specialty, regional, and grade requirements to ensure a steady pipeline of placeable candidates.
  • To achieve all set KPIs and deliverables, including headhunting, candidate visits, and ensuring compliance. 
  • Demonstrate a proactive approach in delivering specific candidate attraction strategies that align with team requirements and market demands.
  • Ensure all candidates meet compliance standards through effective coordination between you and the compliance team.
  • Oversee management of the round-robin distribution system to guarantee fair and transparent allocation of candidates.
  • Demonstrate a clear sales focus by contributing to team targets and supporting overall sales efforts.
  • Support training for the Junior sales support team, ensuring alignment with sales team budgets and objectives.
  • Actively gather and utilise consistent positive feedback from candidates to improve processes and enhance the candidate experience.
  • Demonstrate high levels of proactivity in all activities.
  • Deliver excellent customer service to increase referral opportunities.

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

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
  • Attention to detail
  • Organisation skills
  • Administrative skills
  • Number skills
  • Team working
  • Tenacity and Resilience
  • Target driven
  • Competitive

Other requirements

A positive and proactive approach to work good communication skills, both written and verbal, a willingness to learn new skills and take on feedback, an organised and reliable approach, with good attention to detail, an interest in developing a career in business, sales, or recruitment. 

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)

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

Katie

katie@rmtraining.co.uk

01702 782001

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000019983.

Apply now

Closes in 20 days (Friday 3 April 2026 at 11:59pm)