Summary
Looking to kickstart your career in recruitment? Bridgewell Partners are looking for someone ambitious, switched on, ready to learn and join their growing team in Chatham. They specialise in recruitment for Children’s Residential Homes, helping providers across the UK find the right people to support for children and young people.
- Wage
£14,560 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
Bonus incentives and Commission structure (based on targeted performance)
- Training course
- Recruiter (level 3)
- Hours
- Monday - Friday. 9.00am - 5.00pm.
35 hours a week
- Start date
Monday 23 November 2026
- Duration
1 year 2 months
- Positions available
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
What will you actually be doing?
This isn’t an apprenticeship where you’ll spend your day making cups of tea or doing the odd bit of filing.
You’ll be getting hands-on experience in a busy recruitment business, learning how the industry works and playing a real part in helping us grow.
Your day-to-day responsibilities will include:
- Finding great candidates - Using job boards, LinkedIn and our recruitment systems to find people looking for their next opportunity
- Creating professional CVs - Preparing and formatting candidate CVs ready to send to employers
- Matching candidates to jobs - Finding the right opportunities for candidates based on their experience, qualifications, salary expectations and location, ideally within an hour’s travel of the home
- Finding new vacancies - Researching children’s residential homes, identifying who’s recruiting and finding new opportunities for our candidates
- Marketing our candidates - Putting together emails showcasing the candidates we’ve registered that week and introducing them to relevant employers
- Building our database - Keeping our recruitment systems organised, accurate and up to date
- Speaking to candidates and clients - Building relationships, gathering information and developing your confidence on the phone
You’ll learn the full recruitment process, from finding someone looking for work right through to helping them secure their next role.
What we are looking for?
We’re not expecting you to know everything. That’s what the apprenticeship is for!
We are looking for someone who:
- Has a positive attitude and genuinely wants to learn
- Is confident, friendly and enjoys speaking to people
- Is organised and pays attention to detail
- Is comfortable using computers and learning new technology
- Can communicate clearly and write a good email
- Has a bit of initiative and can think for themselves
- Is motivated, reliable and willing to put the effort in
- Enjoys working towards goals and seeing the results
- Wants to develop their skills and build a proper career
We don’t care if you’ve never worked in an office before. If you’ve got the right attitude and you’re willing to work hard, we want to hear from you.
Where you'll work
Admirals Offices
Main Gate Road, The Historic Dockyard
Chatham
ME4 4TZ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
RM TRAINING (UK) LIMITED
Training course
Recruiter (level 3)
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
- Recruiter Level 3 Apprenticeship Standard
- Functional Skills if required or requested
- 14 Months training at the employers location
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4)
- Maths (grade 4)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Administrative skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative