Talent Acquisition Business Partner

The role

As a Talent Acquisition Business Partner, you will play a crucial role in delivering a dedicated, proactive, and comprehensive talent acquisition service to various client areas within our organisation. You will guide, advise, and support hiring managers, especially for strategic, managerial, specialist, or difficult-to-fill roles. Building effective relationships with stakeholders will be key to your success, ensuring you add value and achieve successful recruitment performance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with leaders, key stakeholders, and colleagues to deliver a professional and effective talent acquisition service.
• Take full ownership of the recruitment life cycle, focusing on delivery, accuracy, and outcomes.
• Forecast long-term resource requirements and support the collation of this information.
• Design creative advertising campaigns to enhance candidate attraction, particularly for specialist and hard-to-fill roles.
• Ensure documentation is relevant, updated, and correctly used and stored.
• Foster and maintain relationships with past applicants, potential candidates, and key stakeholders.
• Support the delivery of recruitment and selection training in partnership with the Learning and Culture team.
• Coach, advise, and support leaders and hiring managers on recruitment and talent requirements.

Location: You'll be based at one of our main offices in Farringdon, Croydon, Isle of Wight, or Sittingbourne, Kent with the option for hybrid working as agreed with your manager.

What We Offer:

• A collaborative and supportive work environment.
• Opportunities for professional growth.
• A chance to be part of a team that values diversity, inclusion, and wellbeing.

What You'll Need:

• Significant experience in an operational recruitment role or in-house environment.
• Hands-on experience with full-cycle recruitment processes.
• Thorough knowledge of HR policy and current legislation.
• Experience with CV databases, direct sourcing, and professional social media.
• Proficiency in using Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS).
• Exceptional time management and multitasking skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy if we should receive a high volume of applications.

This role will be based from Sittingbourne, Kent. However we only require presence on site 2 days per week as per hybrid working. Some travel to other sites include Fleet House Farringdon, Croydon and Maidstone where required.

Closing Date for Applications: Sunday 11 May 2025 at midnight.

If selected for interview this will be a 2 stage process with 1st initial teams meeting and then a face to face formal meeting to be held at Fleet House Farringdon

About us

At Southern Housing, our residents are at the heart of everything we do. As one of the largest housing providers in the UK with over 77,000 homes across London, the Southeast, the Isle of Wight, and the Midlands, we give over 167,000 people somewhere affordable to call their own!We also understand the difference that safe, secure, and affordable homes can make to people's lives.

A career at Southern Housing will allow you to make a difference every day you come to work. Working in the housing sector with us will bring fresh challenges and give you the opportunity to grow and develop, too.

What's in it for you

Pension

Life
assurance

Healthcare cash plan

Eyecare & dental

Birthday
leave

Retailers discounts

Cycle
to work

Buy & sell
annual leave

Season ticket loan

In-house academy & career development

Flexible working

Inclusion & Diversity

We work hard to create a diverse and inclusive culture and environment where people are respected for who they are. Encouraging inclusion is not just about protected characteristics, it's about celebrating differences of thought, opinion, experience and perspective of each individual.

We're all different in our own way and we want our colleagues to feel comfortable, that they belong, and are safe to be themselves at work, without fear of being judged or excluded, but valued for their contribution to our One Team approach.