Place2Be is recruiting a Recruitment & Onboarding Officer on a 4‑month temporary basis to support national hiring activity and ensure we can continue delivering our vital work so that no child faces mental health issues alone. This role sits within the People & Culture team and is responsible for delivering safe, inclusive and values‑based recruitment campaigns, alongside ensuring new starters are onboarded smoothly, efficiently and compliantly, while providing a high‑quality candidate and hiring manager experience throughout.
Key responsibilities
- Manage end‑to‑end recruitment campaigns, supporting hiring managers across the full recruitment lifecycle.
- Actively manage candidates through the Applicant Tracking System (Eploy), ensuring timely communication and feedback.
- Uphold safer recruitment, safeguarding, DBS and equity, diversity and inclusion standards at all times.
- Manage the onboarding process, ensuring all pre‑employment checks, contracts and documentation are completed accurately and on time.
What we’re looking for
- Previous experience managing recruitment and onboarding processes.
- Strong working knowledge of ATS and HR systems, with good Excel skills.
- Experience working in a high‑volume, fast‑paced environment with excellent attention to detail.
- Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and advise managers.
- Good understanding of recruitment‑related employment law and UK right‑to‑work requirements.
- A proactive, organised and customer‑focused approach, with the ability to work independently and meet deadlines.
For a career with purpose, this is your place.
Recruitment Process:
As part of your application you will need to answer some shortlisting questions. Please answer these as fully as you can, we recommend using the STAR model. Situation, Task, Action Result.
Closing date for applications: Midnight on 10/04/2026
1st Interview date: 27th/28th April 2026
Our Benefits
When you work at Place2Be –whether that's in a school, supporting families, providing clinical supervision, or in IT, Finance, or Fundraising –every role can make the difference to a young person. To achieve this, we ask that you bring your best self to your role and our commitment to you, is to welcome you into our community, and help you progress. Because we know that you being at your best, means the best outcomes for the children we support.
Here’s just a few things we have on offer:
- Annual Leave that increases with service
- Comprehensive learning and development to enable you to progress your career
- 5% contributory pension scheme
- Life assurance of four times your annual salary
- A comprehensive employee assistance programme
- Mobile Phone Discounts (EE network)
- Wellbeing days to allow you some ‘you’ time
- Christmas holidays closure period in addition to your annual leave
We welcome applications from everyone regardless of age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, faith or disability. We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic candidates and disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented within our organisation.
We are proud to be a disability confident employer and will ask you during your application If you wish to be considered for a guaranteed interview under the disability confident scheme. Under the scheme we commit to offering an interview to disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria as outlined in the job role.
If you have any questions about the scheme, or require any adjustments to help you complete an application then please contact the recruitment team on 020 7923 5050 or email [email protected]k
We recognise that AI is becoming part of daily life and you may want to use it to help you format your CV, create responses to application questions or even help you prepare responses. AI can be a powerful enabler and we are open to you using it to apply for roles with us, but we ask you to ensure anything you submit truly represents your capabilities and viewpoint. We value honesty, integrity and creativity and want to understand what you will uniquely bring to our team.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.