Recruitment Partner

Your New Role

You'll join a high‑performing recruitment team as a Recruitment Partner, working alongside a busy talent team.

This is a role for an experienced recruitment/talent professional, with public sector experience (essential), who thrives in a fast‑paced, operational environment and who can confidently guide junior recruitment staff, depending on the team/organisational needs.

You'll act as a key link between hiring managers and recruitment officers, ensuring smooth process flow, consistent communication and a high‑quality candidate experience. You'll also take ownership of your own vacancy portfolio, providing expert guidance, managing end‑to‑end recruitment activity and supporting onboarding.

• Potential for a longer term / permanent opportunity.

Responsibilities

• Managing vacancy pipelines across the team, ensuring approvals, shortlisting timelines, interview panels and feedback all run efficiently.
• Supporting junior recruitment staff by stepping in to post roles, managing adverts, researching media costs, handling inbox queries and generating conditional offers.
• Acting as the direct contact point for hiring managers within your portfolio, ensuring clarity, consistency and timely updates.
• Co‑managing the recruitment inbox daily, responding to candidate and manager queries with professionalism and pace.
• Ensuring high‑quality candidate communication.
• Working closely with HR Business Partners and the wider HR function to align recruitment activity with organisational needs.
• Supporting continuous improvement across recruitment processes, onboarding experience and candidate engagement.
• Maintaining and updating recruitment guidance, processes and content.
• Producing recruitment activity reports with measurable outcomes.

What You'll Need to Succeed

• Strong in‑house recruitment experience, ideally as a Recruitment Partner or similar.
• Proven ability to manage high‑volume campaigns and deliver end‑to‑end recruitment.
• Experience developing and implementing recruitment processes and best practice.
• Confident relationship‑building skills with managers and stakeholders at all levels.
• Strong experienced utilising ATS systems.
• A commitment to diversity, inclusion and delivering an exceptional candidate experience.

Benefits

• 29 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Hybrid & flexible working - two days per week on site.
• Opportunity to work in a supportive, collaborative team with a clear development pathway.
• A role with genuine variety, autonomy and influence across the recruitment life cycle.
• Potential for a longer term position within the organisation.

What you need to do now

If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.

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