Resourcing Business Partner

Witherslack Group; England; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading special education provider in the UK is seeking a Resourcing Business Partner to attract and retain top staff. This hybrid role involves managing recruitment activities, enhancing candidate experience, and implementing innovative hiring strategies. The ideal candidate will have proven headhunting skills and robust communication abilities. A competitive salary and an exceptional benefits package are offered.

Benefits

7 weeks’ holiday

Flexible benefits package

Wellbeing tools and advice

Medical cover

Beautiful working environments

Qualifications

• Experienced recruiter with strong candidate attraction and headhunting skills.
• Excellent selection, assessment, and stakeholder management abilities.
• Energetic, proactive, and collaborative with innovative hiring strategies.

Responsibilities

• Help attract, recruit, and retain the very best staff across schools.
• Build talent pipelines and enhance candidate experience.
• Support current teams by upskilling managers and reducing turnover.

Skills

Candidate attraction

Headhunting

Stakeholder management

Communication

Collaboration

Job description

Overview

Salary: Competitive

Location: North West/Lupton - hybrid role with office days on site in Lupton and travel across our Schools in the UK.

This is a fixed-term maternity cover position for a period of 14 months.

We are the highest Ofsted-rated provider in the country for special education and care. Our teams are fulfilled by making even the smallest positive changes in our young people, so we celebrate the little things. For children with complex needs the level of care and education we provide must go above and beyond. With our high staff-to-child ratio and in-house clinical teams, we’re proud to have won a reputation for excellence and market leading OFSTED ratings.

Role

We’re looking for a Resourcing Business Partner to help attract, recruit, and retain the very best staff across our schools. In a competitive market, this role is about innovation and proactivity: you’ll work closely with key stakeholders to define resourcing requirements, promote our employer brand, and implement our new direct sourcing model. You’ll also have the chance to build talent pipelines, enhance candidate experience, and support our current teams by upskilling managers, reducing turnover, and improving retention.

In this role, you’ll have full ownership of all recruitment activities, combining high-volume recruitment support from a dedicated team with hands-on responsibility for senior hires and headhunting. You’ll establish and manage effective talent channels, drive creative hiring campaigns, and act as a trusted expert to hiring managers through workforce planning and market insight. We’re looking for an energetic, positive, and experienced recruitment professional with a proven track record in candidate attraction, headhunting, and selection.

Requirements / Qualifications

• Experienced recruiter with strong candidate attraction and headhunting skills, including senior hires.
• Excellent selection, assessment, and stakeholder management abilities, with outstanding communication and influencing skills.
• Energetic, proactive, and collaborative, able to drive innovative hiring strategies and strengthen employer brand.

What we do for you

We know you’re going to do great things. For your hard work and commitment, we reward you with the best salary and benefits package in the care sector. You’ll get to make a genuine difference to the lives of our young people – plus you’ll get:

• Salary: Competitive
• Holiday: 7 weeks’ holiday (including bank holidays)
• Flexible benefits package: you can adjust your holiday allowance, pension and life insurance
• Wellbeing: wellbeing tools and advice including employee assistance
• Medical cover: opticians or dentist appointments and access to discounts
• Beautiful working environments: with the very best facilities

Join the UK’s best special education and care provider

Our young people deserve the best possible future, and so do our teams. You deserve to have the career you want, with a purpose-led employer, in an environment that allows you to be yourself.

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The Witherslack Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its young people. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check (cost covered). We are an equal opportunities employer welcoming applications from all sections of the community.