Apprentice Recruitment Consultant - Qualified Social Work
ARDENT SOCIAL LTD
St. Albans (AL1 3TF)
Closes in 24 days (Friday 13 November 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 19 October 2026
Contents
Summary
Ardent Social is seeking an ambitious, commercially driven individual to build a long-term career in specialist social work recruitment. No previous recruitment experience is required, as intensive training, ongoing coaching and development will be provided. The ideal candidate is motivated, resilient and eager to achieve success.
- Wage
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£19,000 a year
- Training course
- Recruiter (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday - Thursday, between 9.00am - 6.00pm and Friday, between 9.00am - 5.30pm.
39 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 16 November 2026
- Duration
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1 year 2 months
- 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
Candidate Acquisition & Business Development
- Conduct consistent, high-volume outbound prospecting to identify and engage qualified social workers.
- Develop relationships with new and existing candidates to understand their professional experience, career objectives and employment preferences.
- Proactively generate candidate opportunities through telephone outreach, job boards, CV databases, LinkedIn, referrals and other appropriate channels.
- Develop creative and commercially effective approaches to candidate acquisition.
- Maintain persistence through rejection and periods of limited immediate success.
- Continuously evaluate and improve the quality and effectiveness of candidate conversations.
- Candidate Qualification & Commercial Judgement
- Develop a detailed understanding of the Qualified Social Work sector, including different service areas, team structures and job requirements.
- Review CVs and assess candidates' relevant experience against live vacancies.
- Conduct thorough telephone qualification to establish suitability, availability, location preferences, rate expectations and career objectives.
- Understand market conditions, prevailing pay rates and client requirements to identify commercially
viable placement opportunities. - Prioritise candidates and opportunities based on suitability, placement potential and commercial value.
- Work collaboratively with the Talent Support and Compliance teams to progress candidates through the recruitment process.
Pipeline Management & Commercial Delivery
- Build, maintain and develop a structured pipeline of qualified social workers.
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date CRM records, candidate information and follow-up actions.
- Manage daily activities effectively, balancing outbound prospecting, candidate management and live recruitment opportunities.
- Respond to changing desk priorities while maintaining ownership of existing commitments.
- Progress candidates through the recruitment process, from initial engagement to successful placement.
- Develop a sustainable book of business generating recurring weekly gross profit.
Candidate Experience & Professional Standards
- Deliver a premium, professional and consistent standard of service to all candidates.
- Maintain regular communication and provide timely updates throughout the recruitment process.
- Handle objections, difficult conversations and disappointment with professionalism and emotional
composure. - Build long-term candidate relationships based on honesty, responsiveness and trust.
- Take ownership of candidate concerns and follow through on commitments.
- Represent Ardent Social's values and reputation in every professional interaction.
Learning, Development & Continuous Improvement
- Take personal responsibility for developing recruitment knowledge, sales capability and understanding of the Social Work sector.
- Actively participate in training, coaching, call reviews and performance discussions.
- Independently research unfamiliar areas, ask informed questions and apply learning to daily activities.
- Seek constructive feedback and demonstrate measurable improvement.
- Identify personal performance gaps and proactively develop improvement plans.
- Contribute ideas to improve candidate acquisition, recruitment processes and commercial performance.
Where you'll work
2 Victoria Square
Victoria Street
St. Albans
AL1 3TF
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
DAVIDSON 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
- Full training will be given leading to a recognised Level 3 Recruiter Apprenticeship Standard Qualification
- Full on-the-job training will be delivered
- Off-the-job training will be supported by our Training Provider, Davidson Training UK Ltd
- All training is carried out within the workplace during working hours
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4-9 (A* - C))
- Maths (grade 4-9 (A* - C))
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Organisation skills
- Team working
- Strong communication skills
- Relationship-building skills
- Highly motivated,
- Desire to earn and grow
- Resilient and confident,
- Able to handle objections
- Able to handle rejections
- Excellent time management
- Ability to prioritise tasks
- Detail-oriented
- Able to work independently
Other requirements
The ideal candidate is ambitious, resilient and commercially minded, with strong communication skills and a genuine desire to build a successful recruitment career. They should be disciplined, proactive, coachable and comfortable with targets, prospecting and rejection. Previous sales or customer service experience is beneficial but not essential. Attitude, initiative, accountability and a willingness to learn are key.
About this employer
Ardent Social is a fast growing start-up recruitment agency with ambitious plans to scale and become a market leader in the social work recruitment. Our mission is to provide an exceptional recruitment experience, connecting talented social workers with opportunities that make a real impact in local communities. This is an exciting opportunity to join us at the ground level and be part of our journey to rapid growth and success. We are looking for an Apprentice Recruitment Resourcer who is eager to learn, grow with the business, and ultimately become a future leader within the company. This is not just a job—it's a career path into recruitment, with structured training, commission based on performance, and a clear route to progressing into a fully-fledged Recruitment Consultant managing their own desk.
Company benefits
- Commission Incentive
- Structured Career Path
- Mentorship & Career Growth
- We are a lifestyle company with designer and holiday incentives available - follow us on Instagram ardentsocial.life
After this apprenticeship
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
The role offers structured development over 12 months, starting with intensive training in recruitment, candidate sourcing, business development and pipeline management. The aim is to build towards independent recruitment activity, with a target of £1,500 recurring weekly gross profit by month 12 and a longer-term ambition of £3,000+.Ardent Social offers a performance-led career pathway.
The initial objective is to become a successful, independent billing consultant.
As experience and commercial performance develop, opportunities may include progression into senior or
principal billing positions, or a future billing management pathway for those who demonstrate the required
capability and wish to pursue leadership.
Progression will be based on demonstrated performance, professional development and business requirements.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
DAVIDSON TRAINING UK LIMITED
GEMMA BARR
gemmabarr@davidsontraining.com
07399 586723
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000059721.
Apply now
Closes in 24 days (Friday 13 November 2026 at 11:59pm)