Overview

Salary: Competitive

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

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

Witherslack Group is a high-quality provider of specialist education and care with strong Ofsted ratings. We are committed to making meaningful differences in the lives of young people through a high staff-to-child ratio and in-house clinical teams.

Get out what you put in

We are looking for a Resourcing Business Partner to attract, recruit, and retain the very best staff across our schools. The role emphasizes innovation and proactivity: you will work with key stakeholders to define resourcing requirements, promote our employer brand, and implement a direct sourcing model. You will build talent pipelines, enhance candidate experience, and support current teams by upskilling managers, reducing turnover, and improving retention.

In this role, you will 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 will 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 are 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 diversity and are committed to an inclusive environment. Our young people come from varied backgrounds and with different needs, and our workforce reflects that diversity, so that we can engage, encourage and inspire our young people to be themselves. 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 offer a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package. You will have the opportunity to make a genuine difference to the lives of our young people while enjoying the following benefits:

• Salary: Competitive
• Holiday: 7 weeks’ holiday (including bank holidays)
• Flexible benefits: options to adjust holiday allowance, pension, and life insurance
• Wellbeing: wellbeing tools and employee assistance
• Medical cover: coverage for opticians, dentist appointments, and more, plus high-street discounts
• Working environment: enjoyable facilities and environments

Join the UK’s best special education and care provider

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our 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.

The Witherslack Group is an equal opportunities employer welcoming applications from all sections of the community.