Recruitment Assistant | Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust


Company:	Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Salary:	£25,760 - £27,476 per annum
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Sutton-in-Ashfield, NG17 4JL
Job type:	Contract
Posting date:	11 Sept 2026
Closing date:	11 Oct 2026

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Summary

Are you an accomplished HR professional with a passion for recruitment and the ability to build strong, enduring connections? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you! Sherwood Forest Hospitals is extending an invitation to an experienced HR/Recruitment professionals to join our dynamic recruitment team.

The Recruitment Assistant plays a key role in supporting the delivery of high-quality patient care by providing efficient, responsive, and customer-focused administrative support. The post holder will contribute to the continuous improvement of recruitment processes and services, ensuring candidates, managers, and stakeholders receive a professional and effective service.

The role is responsible for undertaking a wide range of recruitment administration duties, including managing face-to-face, telephone, and email enquiries, maintaining accurate recruitment records, and supporting recruitment campaigns from vacancy approval through to appointment. The Recruitment Assistant will provide operational support to the Trust's centralised recruitment programmes, ensuring activities are delivered efficiently and in compliance with organisational policies and procedures.

If you are a proactive and organised individual who enjoys working with people and providing excellent administrative support, we would love to hear from you.

This is a fixed-term position for 8 months with short term funding, established to provide dedicated support for a specific project.

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

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To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

This advert closes on Thursday 24 Sep 2026

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