Team Leader - Recruitment Consultant

Job Title: Recruitment Team Leader

Location: Century City, Cape Town

About Marva Group

Marva Group is a dynamic and fast-growing parent company with a diverse portfolio of healthcare businesses, including care homes, recruitment services, domiciliary care, and specialist health solutions. We are committed to delivering excellence across the healthcare continuum by empowering our subsidiary companies through strategic oversight, shared services, and a unified vision of care.

Job Summary

We are seeking a proactive, experienced Team Leader Recruitment Consultant to lead a team of consultants specialising in the recruitment of healthcare professionals within Complex Care /Mental Health. The successful candidate will play a dual role: actively managing their own recruitment portfolio while guiding and developing a small team of consultants to deliver high-quality placements across supported living, residential, and community-based services.

This role requires a strong background in healthcare recruitment, exceptional people leadership skills, and a deep understanding of either complex care or mental health

Key Responsibilities

Team Leadership & Performance

• Supervise and support a team of recruitment consultants, including setting targets, conducting 1:1s, and monitoring KPIs.
• Provide ongoing coaching, training, and mentorship to junior team members to ensure performance and professional development.
• Drive a culture of accountability, teamwork, and ethical recruitment practice.
• Lead daily or weekly team meetings to review performance, troubleshoot challenges, and share insights.

Recruitment & Client Management

• Manage full-cycle recruitment for your own portfolio of clients, including sourcing, screening, shortlisting, and placing qualified healthcare professionals.
• Develop and maintain strong client relationships within the complex care or mental health sector.
• Understand and anticipate client needs, delivering bespoke recruitment solutions in a timely and compliant manner.

Operational & Compliance Oversight

• Oversee the maintenance of accurate candidate records, compliance documentation, and internal systems.
• Work closely with compliance and onboarding teams to ensure speed to market while maintaining 100% compliance.

Strategy & Growth

• Contribute to business development strategies by identifying growth areas and market trends in either complex care or mental health.
• Assist in setting monthly and quarterly team targets and developing plans to achieve them.

Requirements

• Minimum of 3 years experience in healthcare recruitment, with at least 2 year in a team lead or senior consultant role.
• Proven success in recruiting within complex care or mental health sectors.
• Strong understanding of healthcare regulations, compliance, and safeguarding requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and motivate a high-performing recruitment team.
• Excellent relationship-building and communication skills (written and verbal).
• Results-driven with strong commercial acumen and attention to detail.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, target-driven environment.
• Experience working with CRM systems and ATS platforms
• Knowledge of UK healthcare frameworks and NHS workforce policies (where applicable).