Graduate Trainee Education Recruitment Consultant

Location: Brislington, Bristol
Salary: From £26,500 + competitive commission
Job Type: Full-time, Permanent
Hours: Monday–Friday, 40 hours per week
Training: 6-month Graduate Training Programme

Ready to turn your ambition into a career?
Are you a graduate who is competitive, resilient, ambitious and motivated by earning potential?
Do you enjoy talking to people, building relationships and working towards a target?
If you’re interested in education but see yourself in sales, recruitment and business development rather than working directly with students, our Graduate Trainee Education Recruitment Consultant role could be the career for you.

Your first 6 months
You'll join our established Bristol team and enter a structured 6-month training and coaching programme, focused exclusively on recruiting specialist SEN/SEND candidates for schools.
You'll learn how to:
• Source and attract specialist education candidates
• Interview and assess SEN professionals
• Build strong candidate relationships
• Match candidates with schools and opportunities
• Develop your recruitment and sales skills
• Understand the SEND education market
• Work towards targets and KPIs
• Build the foundations of a successful recruitment career
You'll have the support of an experienced team, alongside your manager and senior leadership, so you'll never be expected to figure it all out alone.

Then, after the 6 months training, you could go 360°
Once you've successfully completed your training, you'll progress into a full 360 Education Recruitment Consultant role.
That means taking ownership of your own desk, developing relationships with schools and education leaders, winning new business, placing SEN specialists and growing your own client base.
Think of it as running your own business within a business.
The more you put in, the more opportunity you have to earn through our competitive commission and bonus structure.
This isn't for everyone.
Recruitment is target-driven, competitive and fast-paced.
You'll be meeting school leaders, interviewing SEN specialists and making plenty of calls. You'll hear "no" – probably quite a lot – before you hear "yes".
So, we're looking for someone who is:
• Resilient – you don't give up when things don't go your way
• Ambitious – you want to progress and increase your earning potential
• Confident – you're comfortable speaking to new people
• Competitive – targets motivate you rather than scare you
• Commercially minded – you're interested in sales and business development
• Hardworking – you're prepared to put in the effort to get results
• People-focused – you enjoy building genuine professional relationships
You don't need recruitment experience. We can teach you recruitment.
What we can't teach is ambition, resilience and the desire to succeed.

Why Axcis?
You'll be joining Axcis Education, an established specialist SEND recruitment business and part of The Edwin Group, named a Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2025 organisation for the third consecutive year.
Our Bristol office is based in Brislington and has everything you need to make work a great place to be:
• On-site parking
• 24-hour access to our own gym
• Dedicated café space
• Bicycle facilities
• An experienced, supportive team culture
You'll work alongside an established team who genuinely enjoy working together, with experienced colleagues, your manager and senior leadership there to support your development.

What we offer
• £26,500+ starting salary, depending on experience
• Very competitive bonus/commission scheme
• Full-time, permanent position
• Monday–Friday, 40 hours per week
• Shift patterns between 7am and 6pm
• Work-from-home options following your initial training period
• Reduced working hours during school holidays
• Late start/early finish every Friday during term time
• 90-minute lunch break once a week
• Income Protection & Death in Service scheme
• Staff discount and wellbeing package
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Structured training, coaching and career progression

Where could this take you?
Successful trainees have the opportunity to progress into full-time Education Recruitment Consultant roles, with further opportunities to develop your career within recruitment, sales and leadership.
If you're looking for a graduate role where your performance directly influences your career progression and earning potential, we'd love to hear from you.
Interested in education. Driven by success. Ready to build your career?
Apply now to become a Graduate Trainee Education Recruitment Consultant at Axcis Education in Bristol.

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