Recruitment Apprentice
PRENTIS SOLUTION HEAD OFFICE
MIDDLESEX (HA1 1BQ)
Closes in 15 days (Friday 30 October 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 14 October 2026
Contents
Summary
Start your career in the fast-paced world of recruitment with our Recruiter Level 3 Apprenticeship! As an apprentice, you will learn the end-to-end recruitment lifecycle from the ground up—sourcing top talent, engaging with candidates, and supporting our expert team to match the right people with the right roles.
- Wage
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£15,600 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Recruiter (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 2 November 2026
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- Positions available
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2
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
- Source suitable candidates for current and anticipated vacancies using ITRIS, job boards, LinkedIn and other approved recruitment channels
- Review CVs and identify candidates whose skills and experience may meet client requirements
- Contact candidates by telephone and email to discuss their experience, availability, career objectives and suitable opportunities
- Conduct candidate screening and registration activities under appropriate supervision
- Maintain regular contact with candidates and contractors and provide a professional candidate experience
- Keep candidate records, CVs, availability and recruitment activity accurately recorded on ITRIS
- Support consultants in understanding and resourcing live vacancies
- Assist with preparing and posting job advertisements
- Shortlist suitable candidates and support the preparation of candidate information for submission to clients
- Arrange interviews and communicate relevant information to candidates
- Obtain and record interview and placement feedback
- Support successful candidates through the onboarding and placement process
- Assist with obtaining information and documentation required for candidate compliance, working with the company’s compliance function and escalating issues where appropriate
- Maintain contact with existing contractors, including identifying approaching assignment end dates and potential future opportunities
- Support the administration of contractor timesheets where required
- Deal with routine candidate, contractor and client queries in a timely and professional manner and escalate matters where appropriate
- Attend recruitment events, exhibitions, client meetings and other relevant activities where appropriate
- Identify potential candidate, vacancy and business development leads arising through conversations and research
- As experience develops, communicate directly with clients regarding candidates, vacancies, interviews and recruitment activity
- As experience develops, take increasing responsibility for vacancies and elements of the end-to-end recruitment process
- Provide general support and assistance to the recruitment team as reasonably required
Where you'll work
SCOTTISH PROVIDENT HOUSE
76-80 COLLEGE ROAD
HARROW
MIDDLESEX
HA1 1BQ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
TRAINPLUS LTD
Training course
Recruiter (level 3)
Understanding apprenticeship levels (opens in new tab)
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
Training will take place within our premises, as well as, remotely to attend regular apprenticeship training.
Exact training schedule to be agreed upon enrolment.
More training information
1-to-1 learning with your training provider - TrainPlus.
Regularly scheduled sessions with your assessor/tutor to ensure progress is maintained, and reviewed, throughout the duration of course.
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade C/4 or above)
- Maths (grade C/4 or above)
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
- Problem solving skills
- Administrative skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Patience
About this employer
Accredited by the Recruitment and Employment Federation Prentis Solutions is a proven professional consultancy. Prentis clients are Local Authorities, Housing Associations, ALMO's, TMO's, Charitable Trusts, High Schools, Academies, Colleges, Contractors, Vendor Management Companies as well as Professional Service Companies. With each discipline, Prentis supplies staff at all levels; from Volunteers, Trainees and Generic Clerical Staff to Specialist Officers, Team Leaders, Heads of Service, Directors and CEOs.
After this apprenticeship
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
Opportunity to progress into a Recruitment Consultant or similar recruitment role within Prentis Solutions.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
TRAINPLUS LTD
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000059069.
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Closes in 15 days (Friday 30 October 2026 at 11:59pm)