Endless Fund IV has acquired CER Staffing Solutions Limited, which is trading as Affinity Workforce, and all associated subsidiaries from Capita plc.

The acquisition price was not disclosed.

Affinity Workforce is a UK public sector recruitment specialist that operates across Education, Healthcare and Social Care.

It comprises of three brands in its education recruitment division including Monarch Education which deals with short-term, long-term and permanent education roles; CER which deals with  supply, fixed-term contract and permanent education jobs; and Quality Teachers which operates with interim and permanent education positions across the UK.

For its Healthcare division, it comprises of 4FRONT and Team24. For its Social Care division, it comprises of Medicare First.

Endless states that it will support management, led by Affinity Workforce CEO Nicola McQueen, in achieving their goals for Affinity Workforce. This includes providing strategic, commercial, operational and financial assistance, particularly as it transitions to a standalone business and looks to grow.

“Today is an incredibly exciting day for our history book as we go into partnership with Endless and embark on a journey to make Affinity Workforce the most admired and trusted recruitment partner - enabling our clients to service the public with the very best in Education, Health and Social Care services,” McQueen said. “Within each of our markets there is a real need to provide enhanced value and with our rich heritage in recruitment partnering, coupled with our specialist sector experience, we have the winning formula.”

“We are delighted to be able to have acquired this business from Capita,” Francesco Santinon, Partner at Endless, said. “We are extremely excited to be involved in one of the UK’s largest staffing businesses, including the second largest education and teaching supply business in the UK. Endless is fully committed to utilising our capital, resource and business transformation experience in supporting CEO Nicola McQueen and her highly capable management team achieve their plans.”

Endless are focused on buyouts, non-core businesses, refinancings and turnarounds and target UK headquartered businesses with a turnover between £10 million and £1 billion.

Capita resourcing will continue to operate under the Capita brand and was not included in the sale.