Trainee Recruitment Consultant

Trainee Recruitment Consultant – Financial Services

Bristol (Hybrid) | Salary up to £30,000 + uncapped commission

No recruitment experience needed — just ambition. If you're hungry, competitive and want a career where your earnings reflect your effort, this is a genuine ground-floor opportunity in one of the UK's most lucrative recruitment markets.

Why this role is different

Ortus PSR is a specialist recruitment consultancy working exclusively in financial planning and investment management — placing Paraplanners, Financial Advisers, Directors and C-suite leaders with firms across the UK. You'll join our Bristol team and learn the trade on a warm desk, with an established candidate list and industry connections already in place. That means real conversations and real momentum from your first weeks, not months of cold calling into silence.

You'll also be trained on AI-enhanced tools that handle the research-heavy grunt work — producing market summaries and tailored client insights — so you spend your time learning the part of the job that actually pays: building relationships and advising clients.

What you'll be doing

Learning the financial services recruitment market from experienced consultants, with structured hands-on training

Sourcing and speaking to experienced professionals — Paraplanners, Financial Advisers

Building your own network of candidate and client relationships over time

Supporting live assignments across high-growth SMEs, national IFA firms and international wealth management businesses

Progressing towards running your own desk, with a clear route to full Consultant status

What we're looking for

No recruitment experience required — we'll teach you everything

Drive and competitiveness: sales, retail, hospitality, sport or similar backgrounds often thrive here

Confidence on the phone and in conversation — you'll be talking to senior professionals daily

Resilience: recruitment rewards persistence, and you'll need it

Genuine curiosity about business and people — the best recruiters are advisers

A professional, credible manner suited to the financial services market

What's on offer

Basic salary of up to £30,000

Uncapped commission with a clear path to one of the strongest earning schemes in the market as you progress

Full training and mentoring from specialists with decades of sector experience

A warm desk to learn on — not a cold start

Hybrid working from our Bristol base

A defined career path from Trainee to Consultant and beyond, in a specialist, growing business