Home Instead Folkestone, Hythe & Ashford is part of the UK’s leading provider of high-quality, relationship-led home care. We support older adults to live independently in their own homes through personalised, compassionate care delivered by well-trained Care Professionals.

As a regulated care provider, safe recruitment and safeguarding are central to everything we do. We are proud of our values-led culture and our commitment to quality, compliance, and professionalism.

We’re looking for a passionate, organised and proactive Recruiter to join our team on a permanent basis.

This role is central to our business, you’ll be responsible for attracting, engaging and onboarding high-quality Care Professionals, while delivering a positive, supportive candidate experience from first contact through to start date.

If you enjoy people, community engagement, and making a real difference behind the scenes, this could be a great fit.

What you’ll be doing

• Managing the end-to-end recruitment journey for Care Professionals

• Proactively sourcing candidates using job boards, social media, referrals and community networks

• Creating and running creative recruitment campaigns (online & local)

• Supporting interviews, screening, references, DBS and Right to Work checks

• Maintaining accurate recruitment records using SmartRecruiters (ATS)

• Attending and organising local recruitment events, fairs and community outreach

• Using recruitment data to monitor pipeline health and improve outcomes

• Supporting and promoting our Employee Referral Scheme

• Ensuring all recruitment activity meets Home Instead standards and compliance requirements

Essential:

• Experience delivering a full recruitment lifecycle

• Knowledge of recruitment compliance (DBS, references, Right to Work)

• Confidence using social media and digital tools for recruitment

• Strong communication skills and ability to build rapport quickly

• Excellent organisation, accuracy and follow-through

• IT-confident (ATS, Microsoft Office)

Ideal (but not essential):

• Experience in care, health or people-focused sectors

• Community engagement or events experience

• Data-driven approach to recruitment performance

• A permanent, stable role within a supportive leadership team

• The chance to shape recruitment strategy, not just process applications

• Strong values-led organisation focused on quality, dignity and people

• A role with real autonomy, ownership and impact