EPR Recruitment Advisor | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Reporting to the EPR Programme Manager, the post holder will be responsible for leading a large scalefirst-class proactive recruitment service to Electronic Patient Record (EPR) programme across South London & Maudsley NHS Trust. SLaM is migrating from our current EPR to a new system throughout 2026 and 2027 and we will be running a large recruitment campaign to support the EPR programme. The EPR implementation forms an integral part of an innovative and exciting Clinical Transformation programme that will be enabled by a comprehensive digital experience, incorporating a wide range of EPR functionality required to deliver excellent patient care.

The post-holder will work in partnership with Digital Services and HR Business Partners in order to progress vacancies to recruitment and ensure proactive sourcing of skilled candidates, providing advice, coaching and support to the Trust on a range of EPR recruitment activities.

The post-holder will be supporting and working on key EPR work-streams and projects enabling the recruitment team to deliver high volume and streamlined recruitment services across the Trusts’ and actively contribute to reducing time to hire and agency spend.

We are committed to get the very best out of our staff and support staff in their career aspirations. We have career pathways available, where you will be able to develop your skills and build on your experience to progress into other roles across different specialties. For this role, we offer career pathways to Senior manager roles within the IG and the wider team. In addition, we offer ongoing training and development in conjunction with the BCS membership.

As one of the few Trusts in London we are proud to offer flexible working as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working at the interview stage. In this role you will be able to work Monday to Friday in the time frames from 8am to 6pm, giving you the very best of good work life balance.

● To lead, contribute and monitor specific areas of specialist recruitment within the divisions.

● Ensure a timely and high-quality proactive recruitment service to the EPR programme within the Trust in accordance with the agreed standards of practice. This includes supporting the Recruitment Services Team Lead in providing consistent and proactive advice/guidance to managers, candidates and team members on fair recruitment processes. This will include supporting the development of documentation and training materials for internal colleagues.

●Advise managers in the effective recruitment, engagement and deployment of staff in accordance with relevant policies and the services’ needs. This includes consistent interpretation and application of Trust employment policies and procedures and employment legislation.

●Ensure that standardised processes are in place within the recruitment service in line with relevant policy and procedure, HR best practice and current legislative requirements. These will include standardized procedures, templates and practices.

●Ensure all employment checks and paperwork is accurate and compliant with NHS Employers’ Employment Check Standards and to brief staff on any updates as necessary.

● Ensure compliance with the GDPR legislation in relation to recruitment and employment records.

● To support with ensuring that new team members are inducted and trained in all recruitment processes in line with the NHS employers standards, legal obligations and relevant Trusts policies.

● Proactively support the onboarding process to ensure optimum candidate experience and ensure that all new starters are added to the payroll in line with relevant payroll deadlines and assist with payroll inputting where required. This includes spot checking of input and providing training where required.

● Actively monitor own performance next to KPI’s and key metrics (time, source, quality, cost and other strategic initiatives). This includes providing timely and accurate reports for internal stakeholders on recruitment progress.

● Act as a System administrator and Trac super user, offering proactive advice to improve the workflow of the system to create an efficient recruitment process.

● Actively support the development of staff in the Trust by supporting the design, development and delivery of a range of recruitment training packages and toolkits. This includes provision of training on these topics using various methods such as online, guides, one to one and workshops. Training to include campaign management, use of Trac, interview and selection and candidate management and to develop and maintain internal Service Operating Procedures (SOPs) and processes ensuring the team adhere to the outlined steps.

● To provide advice and confirm compliance with relevant job offers, terms and conditions of employment, as part of the recruitment process or to seek advice as required.

● To support with relevant implementations of national initiatives and policies and procedures, including contributing and working on projects across the People and OD Directorate.

● To undertake internal audit checks on the recruitment processes undertaken by the team to ensure that all pre-employment checks are carried out in accordance with relevant legislation, Trust Policy and NHS Employment Standards including Employment Rights Act and UKVI Guidance.

● To manage the team in accordance with an identified suite of key performance indicators ensuring that performance concerns are addressed, and support is proactively provided to support rapid improvement.

● To support designated area of responsibility in modernisation, new ways of working and continuous improvement of the efficiency and effectiveness ensuring all legislative/audit requirements are met.

● To champion the Equality and Diversity agenda and proactively embed the principles into the processes and procedures of the teams.

This advert closes on Thursday 14 May 2026