Talent Acquisition Partner

Bright Horizons Family Solutions, LLC.; Northampton; Hybride; GBP 30 000 - 36 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Flexible working

Discounted childcare

Wellbeing resources

Employee appreciation

Résumé du poste

Bright Horizons Family Solutions, LLC. is seeking a Talent Acquisition Partner for a 12-month fixed-term contract. The role is remote with occasional travel to Bright Horizons nurseries and offices in the UK, with our HO in Northampton.

Salary is £DOE, starting from £33k, with applications closing 1 November 2026. You will lead end-to-end recruitment for nursery settings and partner with HR and operations to build talent pipelines.

Qualifications

• Proven track record in recruitment, preferably in high-volume settings.
• Experience recruiting in nursery care or healthcare sectors is desirable.
• Strong communication skills across all levels of the business.
• Goal-driven with a solid understanding of recruitment metrics.

Responsabilités

• Deliver end-to-end recruitment for Bright Horizons nursery settings.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to provide high-touch resourcing solutions.
• Direct sourcing via LinkedIn Recruiter, CV databases, job boards, and campaigns.
• Promote employer brand and manage the candidate journey from brief to onboarding.

Connaissances

End-to-end recruitment

High-volume recruitment

Stakeholder management

LinkedIn Recruiter

Outils

Workday

Description du poste

Role: Talent Acquisition Partner – FTC Contract Length : Fixed Term Contract – 12 months Location: Remote with occasional travel to Bright Horizons nurseries and offices when required. Our HO is in Northampton. Salary: £DOE – from £33k Nursery Childcare Recruitment or Healthcare Recruitment Experience is Essential.

Closing Date for this role: 1st November 2026 unless the right candidate is hired before / All applications need to attach a cv for consideration

This role is to deliver an end-to-end recruitment service for our operational nursery setting roles in a designated region. Working in partnership with the operational and wider Talent Acquisition teams to hire the greatest talent potential for Bright Horizons, you will ensure that recruitment is strategically focused, while delivering an excellent candidate and hiring manager experience by driving effective stakeholder relationships. The focus is on strategic direct resourcing, talent pipelining and driving employer brand awareness as well as managing the end-to-end resourcing process from brief to attraction to onboarding.

Why Bright Horizons?

Our support functions enable our nurseries to deliver the best possible care and education to over 10,000 children across the UK. Through this support, our nurseries can deliver excellence – with 98% of our 270+ portfolio being rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. We’re on a mission to change the future for children, families, and the people we work with, and are committed to progressive working values like flexibility, work-life balance, and wellbeing

What We Can Offer You

• Flexible working and holiday entitlements
• Discounted childcare in one of our nurseries
• Quarterly Employee Appreciation Weeks
• Annual gala award evening
• Fantastic range of discounts on high street retailers, grocery stores, cinema tickets, holidays and more
• Wide range of wellbeing resources, supporting our teams for the ups and downs of daily life

Key Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Deliver an end to end 360 recruitment service for Bright Horizons nursery settings
• Work closely with stakeholders to deliver first class, end to end resourcing solutions, ensuring a high-touch candidate, and hiring manager experience that continually exceeds expectations
• Deliver direct sourcing through the effective use of LinkedIn Recruiter, CV Databases, Job boards, campaigns, social media and your network, and headhunting techniques
• Work in partnership with the business to identify content to drive out across out careers social channels which supports talent attraction and employer brand engagement
• Manage all vacancies and candidates through effective management of the applicant tracking system (Workday) ensuring its consistently up to date and candidates/hiring managers are managed through all stages correctly
• Deliver weekly MI on recruiting activity
• Champion the use of RAF (Recommend a Friend) through stakeholders
• Act as an ambassador of Bright Horizons, looking for constant opportunities to promote the employer brand, living the heart principles of Bright Horizons, and demonstrating passion for delivery of an outstanding recruitment service to the business.
• Take ownership and accountability for meeting all recruiting needs of our nursery settings being relentless in your quest to deliver exceptional talent to Bright Horizons
• Understanding of market intelligence and trends
• Identify opportunities to attend industry events to promote opportunities at Bright Horizons and to broaden your specialist knowledge
• Regularly assess recruitment activities to ensure their effectiveness and success at achieving desired outcomes and ROI

Essential Experience:

• A proven and successful track record in the role of a Recruiter.
• Experience working within high volume recruitment.
• Sector experience in Nursery recruitment or Healthcare recruitment
• A strong communicator who can effectively and confidently communicate both written and verbally to all levels
• Working towards and exceeding targets whilst prioritising workload to ensure the demands of the business are met
• Ability to prioritise workload and work collaboratively with colleagues at all levels
• Goal-driven, with a solid understanding of recruiting metrics and methods for achieving positive results
• Experience

Desirable:

• Knowledge of the Workday system
• Previous experience within internal recruitment function

Bright Horizons is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. This post is subject to safer recruitment practice and pre-employment checks, including an enhanced DBS check, which will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed.

We are an inclusive employer and welcome people from all backgrounds to apply. We will consider reasonable adjustments required by applicants.

Bright Horizons is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. This post is subject to safer recruitment practice and pre-employment checks, including an enhanced DBS check, which will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed.

We are an inclusive employer and welcome people from all ages and backgrounds to apply. We will consider reasonable adjustments required by applicants.

Proud to be a Great Place to Work for 20 years.

At Bright Horizons, our culture is built on our commitment to Keeping Everyone Safe and providing world-class care and education, delivered by a world-class workforce.

We believe our people’s potential is endless and with this in mind, we aspire to create an environment where our colleagues can thrive and accomplish the things they thought impossible.

Bright Horizons has been recognised as a Great Place to Work by our employees and the Great Place to Work Institute for the last 13 years.

We care passionately about what we do, and our HEART values and principles help us support one another in the work that we do each day. These are quite literally at the HEART of our organisation’s ethos and culture as it helps us to provide a working environment that supports professionalism, growth and diversity.

We are passionate about our people’s ongoing learning and development.

Our learning and leading with HEART framework supports each Bright Horizons colleague on the first steps of their leadership journey, whether that includes our 'World-Class Welcome' induction or our extensive ongoing training programme. Either way we want you to feel valued and invested in!

Celebrating in the accomplishments of our people is an essential part of our culture.

We believe in the power of “thank you” and throughout the year, in ways big and small, formal and informal, we set up a world class environment that includes "employee appreciation month".

Whether it is a “thank you” placed on our website, a chocolate pizza, team lunch or an ice cream van visit, it is our way of showing each other we care and appreciate everything we do.

Each year, we have our annual 'Awards of Excellence' events; whether you are an award winner or cheering on a fellow team member, these formal award occasions are opportunities to come together and celebrate one another.

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https://www.brighthorizons.co.uk/statutory-information/privacy-notice-employees.