Resourcing Business Partner. Job in Kendal Education & Training Jobs

Witherslack Group; Kendal; 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 talent across its schools. This hybrid role involves hands-on recruitment strategies and stakeholder collaboration, aiming to enhance the employer brand. The ideal candidate will be experienced in candidate attraction and headhunting, driven by innovation to improve workforce planning and retention efforts, within a diverse and inclusive environment.

Benefits

7 weeks holiday including bank holidays

Flexible benefits package

Wellbeing tools and advice

Medical cover for appointments

High-street discounts

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

• Lead recruitment activities with a focus on innovation and proactivity.
• Define resourcing requirements and promote the employer brand.
• Establish and manage effective talent channels for hiring.

Skills

Candidate attraction

Headhunting

Stakeholder management

Communication

Collaboration

Job description

Salary: Competitive

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

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

Overview

Those huge small victories

We are the highest Ofsted-rated provider in the country for special education and care. Our teams are fulfilled by the idea of 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. That\'s what drives us here at Witherslack Group. 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.

Get out what you put in

Are you passionate about connecting talented people with meaningful roles? At Witherslack Group, we\'re looking for a Resourcing Business Partner to help us attract, recruit, and retain the very best staff across our schools. In a competitive market, this role is all 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.

Bring your whole-self to work

Here at Witherslack Group, we celebrate everyone\'s differences as that\'s what makes us the best at what we do. Our young people come from all walks of life, diverse backgrounds and with different needs - and our workforce reflects that diversity, so that our teams can engage, encourage and inspire our young people to be themselves. We\'ll give you the chance to build an exciting career in a fast-growing organisation, where you\'re free to achieve your potential. Here\'s what we need from you;

• 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. With us, you\'ll get to make a genuine difference to the lives of our young people - plus you\'ll get:

• Salary: Competitive
• Holiday: You\'ll work hard at WG, so you\'ll be rewarded with 7 weeks\' holiday (including bank holidays)
• Flexible benefits package: meaning you can increase/decrease your holiday allowance, pension and life insurance - check out our benefits here
• Wellbeing: a host of wellbeing tools and advice including employee assistance
• Medical cover so you can claim back the cost of things like an opticians or dentist appointment and a host of high-street 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 we feel the same about 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 (we will cover the cost). We are an equal opportunities employer welcoming applications from all sections of the community.