Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Resourcing Lead

The closing date is 11 November 2025

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Job summary

Are you ready to make a real impact on the recruitment experience for staff and service users? NSFT is seeking a committed Resourcing Lead to drive safe, timely, and people-focused recruitment across our Trust. This is a key role, ensuring our processes are fair, efficient, and aligned with our TALK values.

About the Role

As Resourcing Lead, you will:

  • Lead and develop a high-performing resourcing team, supporting Locality Resourcing Advisors, Assistant Resourcing & Compliance Lead, and Resourcing Administrators.
  • Oversee the end-to-end recruitment process, ensuring compliance with NHS pre-employment checks and employment legislation.
  • Advise managers on recruitment best practice, policies, and procedures, including work-related visas and international staff employment.
  • Design, plan, and deliver recruitment campaigns to meet workforce and service development needs.
  • Analyse recruitment data, develop reports, and identify areas for improvement to impact key metrics such as Time to Hire.
  • Ensure effective use of recruitment systems (TRAC, ESR) and support the Trust's social recruiting strategy.
  • Promote inclusive hiring and support the delivery of the workforce aspects of the Equality Delivery Scheme.
  • Represent NSFT at recruitment fairs, conferences, and external events, acting as an ambassador for our Trust.

Main duties of the job

What We're Looking For

  • Degree-level knowledge, training, or equivalent experience in HR/Recruitment.
  • Experience leading a high-volume recruitment function, ideally within the NHS or a regulated public sector.
  • Strong understanding of employment law, NHS recruitment policy, and inclusive recruitment practices.
  • Excellent interpersonal, communication, and analytical skills.
  • Commitment to teamwork, problem-solving, and continuous professional development.

You'll join a supportive, forward-thinking team dedicated to delivering the highest standards of care through effective recruitment. You'll have the opportunity to shape recruitment strategy, develop your team, and make a positive difference for staff and service users.

About us

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We're an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.

Details

Date posted

03 November 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£47,810 to £54,710 a year gross per annum (pro rata)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

246-HRS7588010

Job locations

Norfolk County Hall

Norwich

NR1 2DH


Job description

Job responsibilities

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to degree level or equivalent experience in HR, Business, or a related field.
  • REC, IRP or HR qualification or equivalent experience
  • Project Management qualification or equivalent experience
  • CIPD Level 5 (Associate Member) - or working towards Level 7

Experience

Essential

  • Leading a high -volume recruitment function
  • Developing and implementing impactful recruitment plans
  • Extensive experience managing end -to -end recruitment processes, ideally within the NHS or a regulated public sector.
  • Skilled in working with senior managers, clinicians, and external partners to align recruitment with workforce strategy
  • In -depth understanding of NHS Recruitment Policy, employment legislation, Right to Work, DBS, etc
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to degree level or equivalent experience in HR, Business, or a related field.
  • REC, IRP or HR qualification or equivalent experience
  • Project Management qualification or equivalent experience
  • CIPD Level 5 (Associate Member) - or working towards Level 7

Experience

Essential

  • Leading a high -volume recruitment function
  • Developing and implementing impactful recruitment plans
  • Extensive experience managing end -to -end recruitment processes, ideally within the NHS or a regulated public sector.
  • Skilled in working with senior managers, clinicians, and external partners to align recruitment with workforce strategy
  • In -depth understanding of NHS Recruitment Policy, employment legislation, Right to Work, DBS, etc

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address

Norfolk County Hall

Norwich

NR1 2DH


Employer's website

https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address

Norfolk County Hall

Norwich

NR1 2DH


Employer's website

https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Director of HR

Catherine Castleton

catherine.castleton@nsft.nhs.uk

Details

Date posted

03 November 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£47,810 to £54,710 a year gross per annum (pro rata)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

246-HRS7588010

Job locations

Norfolk County Hall

Norwich

NR1 2DH


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