Talent Acquisition Specialist

Talent Acquisition Specialist

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Job Title: Talent Acquisition Specialist

Location: Hybrid working from Bolton Head Office (2 days in the office and 3 days from home)

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full Time / 37.5 hours per week

Salary: £35,000 - £40,000 dependent on experience

About National Fostering Group

It’s official – we have been rated as a Great Place to Work 2025!

88% of employees at National Fostering Group say it is a great place to work, compared to 54% of employees at a typical UK-based company.

With over 20 years’ experience, National Fostering Group is the largest independent children’s fostering group in the UK, with a community of over 2,500 foster carers.

As a Group, we work with Local Authorities to provide the highest quality of care for children and young people. All of our fostering agencies are officially recognised by Ofsted and the Welsh and Scottish regulators as either ‘Outstanding’ or ‘Good’, which we are extremely proud of.

About the Role

As our Talent Acquisition Specialist, you will play a key role in attracting and engaging high-quality talent for senior, specialist and hard to fill vacancies across the Group.

Working closely with hiring managers and the wider People Team, you will take a proactive approach to identifying, engaging and building relationships with talented candidates, including passive talent. You will develop direct sourcing strategies, build talent pools and pipelines and provide expert recruitment support throughout the recruitment lifecycle.

You will also contribute to reducing our reliance on external recruitment agencies, improving our approach to candidate attraction and delivering a positive experience for both candidates and hiring managers. The role will involve working with a range of stakeholders across the Group, as well as contributing to recruitment attraction, employer brand and wider recruitment initiatives.

You will also champion our commitment to safer recruitment, helping to ensure we maintain high standards of safeguarding throughout our recruitment processes.

Who we are looking for

We are looking for an experienced recruitment or talent acquisition professional with a strong, hands-on approach to candidate sourcing. You will have experience recruiting for senior, specialist and hard to fill roles and be confident identifying and engaging high-quality candidates through job boards, CV databases, LinkedIn and other sourcing channels.

You will enjoy the challenge of finding the right people, using effective search techniques to identify both active and passive candidates. You will be proactive and persistent in your approach, with experience building and maintaining talent pipelines to support both current and future recruitment needs.

You will be a strong relationship builder, able to engage candidates effectively and work closely with hiring managers and senior stakeholders to understand their requirements and deliver the right recruitment solutions. Excellent communication, organisation and attention to detail are essential, alongside confidence using recruitment systems and sourcing tools.

You will be passionate about delivering a positive candidate experience, keeping up to date with recruitment trends and sourcing techniques and contributing to a proactive and effective recruitment approach. A commitment to safer recruitment and safeguarding is essential.

But what else is in it for you?

Your health and wellbeing are important to us, so you’ll receive an exceptional reward package, including:

• 27 days’ holiday, increasing with service up to 32 days + bank holidays, with a buy/sell holiday scheme
• Bonus schemes
• Generous salary sacrifice pension scheme
• Enhanced family leave (subject to qualifying criteria)
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Life Assurance

And there’s more!

Our market-leading benefits offering through our Flexible Benefits Platform, Vista, enables you to choose the package that’s right for you. Just some of the benefits on offer include:

• A wide range of health, wellbeing and insurance benefits
• 100s of discount options
• Salary sacrifice Eco Car Scheme and Cycle Scheme
• Tech benefit

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and we expect all employees to share this commitment and undertake appropriate checks.

We are an Equal Opportunities Employer.

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