Recruitment Team Leader
Content + Source + Freshness • 16 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
Highly attractive for experienced recruiters, offering uncapped commission and significant career advancement opportunities.
- Uncapped commission and team performance bonuses
- Comprehensive training and growth opportunities
- Strong leadership responsibilities with mentoring potential
Pros
- Attractive salary package with uncapped commission
- Strong training programs for continuous professional development
- Supportive team culture fostered within the organization
Cons
- Requires significant experience and a proven track record
- Leadership roles may involve high levels of responsibility
- Weekends or longer hours may be required during peak times
Who it's for
Experienced • Office-based
Good fit
- Enthusiastic leaders with recruiting experience
- Motivated individuals aiming for leadership roles
- Professionals who enjoy performance-based incentives
Not recommended for
- Entry-level job seekers needing training
- Professionals disinterested in a competitive environment
- Those preferring a generalist role without leadership
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
TeacherActive
SEND Recruitment Team Leader
Location – LS1 4PR
Salary – £(phone number removed) plus uncapped commission & bonus
Are you motivated by success? Do you want to progress your career in a competitive industry? Are you an experienced Recruiter in the Education Sector?
TeacherActive, a leading recruitment agency in the Education sector are looking for a Education Recruitment Team Leader in Leeds.
As a SEND Recruitment Team Leader, you will be responsible for leading, motivating and inspiring a team of dedicated Recruitment Consultants to hit their targets.
What we can offer you:
- Award winning training and coaching programme, with dedicated learning and development consultants focused on your success.
- Uncapped commission with no threshold
- Team performance based bonus
- Tteam leader reward framework, enabling you to increase your basic salary by hitting key milestones
- Fantastic career and promotion opportunities, recognising your success
- Milestone celebrations including lunches, day trips and holidays
- Up to 30 days annual leave including your birthday day off and a life admin day!
- Reduced working hours during school holidays
- Work from home allowance
- Private health care after a qualifying period
- Discounted Gym Membership and high street discounts
- Champagne Fridays!
The Role of a SEND Recruitment Team Leader:
- Having full accountability of a team, taking responsibility for their management and performance against budget
- Leading from the front to develop business alongside your team
- Ensure delivery of key activity within your team
- Motivating the team to gain the highest possible outcomes, though activity, whilst balancing wellbeing
- Retain existing staff through effective relationships, culture, and community
- Demonstrate that you are undertaking proactive activity to manage any vacancies within your team and identifying candidates with potential
- Organising Marketing, to generate an ongoing healthy pipeline of candidates and clients, using a combination of both traditional and digital methods
- Recruiting excellent teaching and learning support professionals for schools across your designated geographical area
- Building and maintaining strong relationships with existing clients
- Ensuring strict adherence to TeacherActive s compliance standards
- Interacting with customers on a regular basis to ensure high levels of satisfaction and to act on feedback
- Headhunting candidates for specialist teaching, eLearning and leadership roles where required
- Embodying TeacherActive s culture and company values
- Adhering to high ethical and professional standards
- Reflecting on your own performance to continually improve your knowledge, skills and development
- On-going positive contribution within the Leadership Development Group (LDG)
- Maintaining an in depth understanding of the education sector to maximise potential opportunities
- Stand in for the Business Manager during annual leave/absence
Key skills required:
- Essential – Previous recruitment experience leading a team in Education or temporary recruitment
- Proven track record of exceeding growth and GP targets
- Ability to drive strong activity levels
- Previous work within a high compliance sector
- Strong customer service skills
- A high standard of written and oral communication skills
- Proactive work with central support teams
- Outstanding organisation skills and strong attention to details
To apply, you ll ideally have strong agency experience within education or health/social care recruitment however other industries would still be considered.
Working Hours:
- Term time- 07:30am start finishing between 4:30-5:30pm
- School holidays-08:30-3:30pm or 9:00-4:00pm (opportunities to leave earlier)
- Office based – full time
At TeacherActive we strive for excellence, ordinary isn t in our nature. So, if you are looking for a new position with longevity and the opportunity to work for a company with progression and financial rewards, please send us your CV.
If you need any further information about this recruitment consultant opportunity, then please feel free to contact us!
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