Clinical Talent Acquisition Specialist(Vets4Pets)

Talent Acquisition Specialist (Clinical)

Location: Hybrid – Remote and Support Office (Handforth)

Closing Date: Tuesday 28th February 2023

Join our clinical talent acquisition team and help us find perfect positions for the very best Vets with our 440+ first opinion practices throughout the UK. Engaging clinical talent is one of our top priorities and as a Talent Acquisition specialist in this area, you play a pivotal role in opening this conversation on behalf of our partners.

Vets4pets is the largest small animal veterinary services group in the UK. We provide full veterinary care for animals and outstanding career opportunities for veterinary professionals. Part of Pets at Home, the leading pet care specialist, always putting the pet first. We offer a whole ecosystem of services, all from one convenient, accessible source.

We’re passionate about pets, but none of this can happen without people. It’s through people that we bring the pet care experience to life across our different businesses. 

About the Role

As a Talent Acquisition Specialist joining our Vets4Pets team working with our first opinion surgeries you will be responsible for delivering all clinical talent and resourcing plans for the talent categories you own. You will be accountable for the full clinical vacancy picture, and working with the Practice Partners, Regional Director and People Partners, you will explore all resourcing and recruitment marketing options to fulfil current and future requirements, using both internal and external pipelines.

The role ensures talent conversations are continuously alive across the region and at site level, facilitating action plans and signposting to wider people specialists to encourage movement of internal talent within and across all regions. The role also focuses on external hiring, shaping and implementing robust resourcing plans.  Working in partnership with key stakeholders and hiring managers to proactively reduce the number of vacancies whilst improving quality of hire, at a low cost, within a direct resourcing model / framework, and aligned to our values and behaviours.

About your Experience

• Extensive In-house resourcing experience, ideally within a large complex organisation
• Multi-site volume recruitment experience
• Proven experience of shaping or establishing an effective best practice recruitment and selection service.
• Demonstrable experience of working within a direct resourcing model.
• Evidence of agency spend reduction
• Creative, can do, solutions focused attitude.
• Confident at working with a range of stakeholders, able to influence and engage others.
• Talent Acquisition experience in a clinical setting would be advantageous (desirable)
• Sourcing and headhunting experience preferably in a shortage occupation market (desirable)

Benefits

• As you’d expect from a market leading pet care company our salary, bonus, leave and benefits package is comprehensive and highly competitive but our people are important to us so we’ve added a few extras:
• Birthday leave - take an extra day’s holiday to celebrate your Birthday
• Colleague Discount - 20% discount for you and one family member, after qualifying period, on our pet services and in Pets at Home Stores
• Pet friendly support offices - just adhere to the petiquette!
• Reward Hub - a range of great high street and online offers and discounts
• Charity Leave - an additional paid day’s leave each year to work for your favourite animal related charity
• Extra leave and gifts to celebrate special occasions.
• Dedicated wellbeing team supporting our physical and mental health as well as giving us lots of opportunities to have fun for good causes!

Pets just see people, and we do too. If you think you’re a good match to what we are looking for and you share our belief that together ‘we’re better with pets’, we’d like to hear from you, whatever your background or circumstances.