Talent Partner
hace 3 días
Welwyn Garden City
Talent Partner - Join a Growing, Values-Led Childcare Group Hours: 40 Hours - Full-time Location: 1 day per week in Welwyn Garden City Be Valued. Be Supported. Be You. Family First is on a mission to become the number one quality childcare provider in the UK. Since starting out with just 4 nurseries in London in 2019, we've grown to over 100 nurseries across the country, without ever losing sight of what matters most: putting families, children and colleagues first. We're now looking for a Talent Partner to join our team and help us find, hire and retain the brilliant people who make that possible. We'd love to hear from agency recruiters looking to make the move in-house, as well as those already working in-house. Your Benefits We believe great outcomes for children start with happy, supported teams. Here's what you'll enjoy: • Hybrid Working: just 1 day per week in the Welwyn Garden City office, the rest from home, • Career Growth: genuine development opportunities within a fast-growing group, • Health & Wellbeing Support: confidential helpline and wellbeing resources, • Supportive Culture: a warm, collaborative team who live and breathe our INSPIRE values, • Company Pension The Role As Talent Partner, you'll own end-to-end recruitment for your nominated region, working closely with Nursery Managers, Area Managers and HR Partners to make sure every nursery has the right people, in the right place, at the right time. You will: • Manage the full recruitment lifecycle, from sourcing through to offer, for a dedicated portfolio of nurseries, • Build strong relationships with hiring managers to understand resourcing needs and advise on best-practice hiring, • Proactively source talent through social media, job boards, CV databases and direct attraction methods, • Coach and upskill hiring managers on interviewing, assessment and selection, • Track recruitment KPIs across permanent hires, • Champion diversity, equality and inclusion throughout every stage of the hiring process About You You're a confident, tenacious recruiter who genuinely enjoys spotting great talent and building relationships that last. Essential: • Proven experience as a recruiter, with a track record of sourcing and placing quality candidates, • Strong understanding of direct sourcing methods, including social media and job boards, • Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiation skills, • Ability to manage multiple vacancies and priorities at once Desirable: • Previous experience within an in-house or in-house-style recruitment team, • Experience recruiting within a governed or high compliance sector (e.g. childcare, education, healthcare, financial services), • Up-to-date knowledge of market mapping, headhunting and talent pipelining Why Join Us? As part of the Family First Group, you'll play a genuinely strategic role in shaping how we attract and retain talent across the business, with real scope to influence resourcing strategy and grow your career alongside a company that's still expanding fast. Apply today and help us find the people who'll help every Family First nursery thrive. Family First is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Family First Nurseries takes great care to treat everyone as a person, with equal rights and responsibilities to any other individual, whether they are an adult or a child. We are committed to providing equality of opportunity and anti-discriminatory practice for all children and families according to their individual needs. Discrimination on the grounds of gender, age, race, religion or belief, marriage or civil partnership, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, pregnancy or maternity, ethnic or national origin, or political belief has no place within the Family First Group.