Regional Manager

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Salary: £45,000–£50,000 + commission

Location: Bedfordshire, MK45

Working arrangement: Hybrid – minimum 3 days per week in the office

Start date: ASAP

Full-time | Permanent

About the opportunity

Via is partnering with an established healthcare recruitment business to recruit a Regional Manager to lead a busy recruitment delivery and bookings team.

This is a hands-on leadership role for someone with healthcare recruitment experience who knows how to drive performance in a fast-paced temporary staffing environment.

You'll lead, coach and motivate a team responsible for placing healthcare professionals into shifts and assignments, ensuring strong fill rates, excellent client service and full compliance.

Alongside day-to-day team leadership, you'll build relationships with healthcare clients and candidates, monitor commercial performance and identify opportunities to improve processes and grow the business.

What you'll be doing

• Lead, coach and motivate a healthcare recruitment bookings and delivery team
• Set clear expectations, targets and KPIs and hold the team accountable for performance
• Drive bookings, placements, shift coverage and overall commercial results
• Monitor team activity and identify opportunities to improve productivity and performance
• Oversee the end-to-end process from booking requirements through to confirmed placements
• Build strong relationships with healthcare clients and understand their staffing requirements
• Maintain strong candidate relationships to maximise availability and shift coverage
• Support the team with difficult bookings, client conversations and candidate issues
• Ensure healthcare professionals meet relevant compliance and credentialing requirements
• Maintain high standards of customer service across clients and candidates
• Analyse performance data and provide clear updates to senior management
• Identify opportunities to improve recruitment and operational processes
• Support client growth and identify opportunities to increase business within existing accounts
• Work collaboratively with other recruitment, compliance and operational teams

What we're looking for

Previous healthcare recruitment experience is essential for this position.

You'll ideally have:

• Around 3–4+ years' experience within healthcare recruitment or healthcare staffing
• Experience within temporary healthcare recruitment, bookings, delivery or staffing
• Previous experience leading, supervising or coaching recruiters, consultants or booking coordinators
• A strong understanding of healthcare recruitment compliance and credentialing
• Experience working in a target and KPI-driven recruitment environment
• Strong commercial awareness and the ability to drive team performance
• Experience managing client and candidate relationships
• Confidence handling challenging client, candidate and team situations
• Strong negotiation and problem-solving skills
• Excellent organisation and the ability to prioritise in a fast-moving environment
• Experience using recruitment/CRM systems and Microsoft Office
• A proactive, accountable and solutions-focused approach
• Ability to work from the Bedfordshire office at least three days per week

Candidates from healthcare recruitment agencies, nursing agencies, medical staffing businesses, temporary healthcare staffing or similar recruitment environments are particularly encouraged to apply.

Why apply?

• £45,000–£50,000 base salary
• Additional commission structure
• Hybrid working
• Clear leadership responsibility and ownership of team performance
• Opportunity to lead and develop a healthcare recruitment team
• Mix of people management, recruitment operations and commercial responsibility
• Work with established healthcare clients and candidate networks
• Opportunity to influence processes and identify areas for business growth

If you're an experienced healthcare recruitment professional ready to take ownership of a team and drive both operational and commercial performance, we'd like to hear from you.