Hours: Full-time (40 hors per week), Permanent Monday-Friday

Salary: £35,00-£45,00 depending on experience

Location: Hybrid, Head Office Long Eaton

About the Role

We’re looking for a highly organised and proactive Recruiter to join our Central Support team. You'll play a key role in supporting the recruitment function—working closely with hiring managers, candidates, and internal teams to deliver a smooth, efficient, and safe recruitment experience.

This role requires a detail-focused individual with excellent communication skills and a passion for people. Experience in Safer Recruitment—particularly within the Early Years or Education sector—is highly desirable, as our recruitment must meet the highest safeguarding standards.

Key Responsibilities

• As Recruitment Coordinator, you will support the full recruitment cycle—from sourcing to onboarding—while ensuring all processes are compliant with safer recruitment guidelines. Your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Supporting the Recruitment team in understanding staffing needs and role requirements across our early years settings.

• Sourcing candidates via job boards, social media, recruitment fairs, and CV databases.

• Screening applications and identifying qualified candidates.

• Coordinating interviews (both virtual and in-person), ensuring logistics are seamless.

• Communicating clearly and regularly with candidates throughout the recruitment process.

• Managing candidate data in the applicant tracking system (TeamTailor), ensuring accuracy and GDPR compliance.

• Drafting and issuing offer letters and employment contracts.

• Conducting and coordinating all pre-employment and safer recruitment checks, including:

• Ensuring onboarding documentation is complete and compliant prior to start dates.

• Supporting shared team inboxes – monitoring, flagging, and archiving as required.

• Representing Storal at external recruitment events and job fairs.

• Assisting with the development and maintenance of job descriptions and interview guides.

• Staying up to date with recruitment trends, tools, and best practices within the Early Years sector.

What We’re Looking For

• To thrive in this role, you’ll need:

• Experience in recruitment (either agency or in-house), ideally within the education or childcare sectors.

• A clear understanding of Safer Recruitment practices and relevant legislation in Early Years and education.

• Proven ability to source and attract high-quality candidates across multiple channels.

• Strong organisational and time management skills.

• Excellent written and verbal communication.

• Experience using applicant tracking systems (preferably TeamTailor).

• Solid working knowledge of Microsoft Office and recruitment software.

• Professionalism, discretion, and the ability to handle sensitive information with confidentiality.

• A positive, team-oriented attitude and strong interpersonal skills.

Why work for us: 

Family Friendly Benefits- enhanced parents leave including maternity, paternity & adoption & Childcare Discount at 50% off all fees

Wellbeing & Refuel Benefits- extra day off per year for your wellbeing and access to modern-day, progressive mental health support & sick pay 

Financial Perks- emergency cash access to your pay before pay date, free financial coaching 

Social Perks – online community for peer-to-peer socializing eg. book club, pets club, pinecones club & continuous professional development accessible to you at anytime 

Plus, many more.  

We care about our people.  

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We’d love to tell you more about what makes Storal so special.

Storal is the highest of standards when it coming to safeguarding, the welfare of children and creating a work environment the encourages feedback-discussion-resilience. We take our role in the safety of children, our families and our team extremely seriously. As governed by the EYFS, we have a designated safeguarding lead in each setting and all staff (and volunteers) complete a through compliance checks prior to employment including employment references & DBS.   

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