Overview

Salary: Competitive

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

Contract: Fixed-term maternity cover for a period of 14 months.

About Witherslack Group: Those huge small victories. 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. We have a high staff-to-child ratio and in-house clinical teams, with 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 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 a new direct sourcing model. You\'ll also build talent pipelines, enhance candidate experience, and support 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

We celebrate everyone\'s differences; our workforce reflects diverse backgrounds and needs, so 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 a competitive 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: adjust holiday allowance, pension and life insurance; check out our benefits here
• Wellbeing: a host of wellbeing tools and advice including employee assistance
• Medical cover: claim back costs for things like opticians or dentist appointments and access to 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.

For a full job description and person specification, please click here

To view our ex-offenders policy please click here.

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.