Talent Acquisition Business Partner
Employer: Rethink Mental Illness
Location: Home-based, with regular travel across the UK and frequent meetings in London
Working hours: Full-time- 35 hours per week
Salary: £37,000 – £44,500
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About the role
Location: Home-based, with regular travel across the UK and frequent meetings in London
Details: Permanent, Full-time- 35 hours per week
At Rethink Mental Illness, our people make change possible. Every appointment we make shapes the quality, safety and impact of our services — and that’s why this role matters.
We’re looking for 2 Talent Acquisition Business Partners with strong search and stakeholder capability to help us attract, engage and appoint people who share our values and our commitment to improving the lives of people severely affected by mental illness.
About the role
This role plays a key part in building and sustaining a diverse, skilled and values aligned workforce across the organisation.
Working closely with senior leaders and hiring managers, you’ll provide an end to end, values led recruitment service, with a particular focus on specialist, managerial and senior appointments. You’ll bring a proactive, search led approach — identifying and engaging high quality talent who may not already be looking, and representing Rethink authentically and credibly in the market.
While the role includes responsibility for supporting frontline and operational recruitment where needed, its core strength lies in executive search, complex hiring and trusted partnership with leaders. You’ll balance pace with care, and ambition with integrity, ensuring every recruitment journey reflects our commitment to inclusion, safety and respect.
Duties of the Role
Strategic partnering and workforce insight
Act as a trusted Talent Acquisition Business Partner to senior leaders and hiring managers
Build a deep understanding of service context, leadership capability needs and workforce challenges
Lead structured vacancy scoping conversations, shaping role requirements, success profiles and selection approaches
Provide clear, confident advice on recruitment strategy, talent availability and market insight to support effective decision making
Executive search, specialist recruitment and proactive sourcing
Lead search led recruitment for specialist, managerial and senior roles, including discreet and sensitive appointments
Use LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean search, networking and direct outreach to identify and engage passive talent
Deliver authentic, personalised candidate engagement that reflects Rethink’s purpose and values
Build and maintain strong talent pipelines and succession pools for future organisational needs
End to end recruitment and onboarding
Manage the full recruitment lifecycle from approval through to offer and onboarding handover
Act as a consistent, supportive point of contact for candidates, ensuring clarity, respect and engagement throughout
Coordinate safer recruitment and pre employment checks, including Right to Work, DBS/PVG/Access NI, references and occupational health
Work in partnership with Operations and L&D to support smooth, timely and values led onboarding
Inclusion, experience and continuous improvement
Champion equity, accessibility and fairness across recruitment activity
Ensure reasonable adjustments and inclusive selection practices are embedded throughout
Contribute to employer branding, outreach and engagement with talent communities
Use recruitment data and insight to improve candidate experience, diversity outcomes and process effectiveness continuously
Coach and support hiring managers in inclusive and safer recruitment practices
About you
You’ll be an experienced Talent Acquisition or Recruitment Business Partner who is confident working at senior level and motivated by purpose as much as performance.
Essential
Full UK driving licence and ability to travel nationally
Proven experience in a 360 Talent Acquisition or Recruitment Business Partner role
Strong track record delivering specialist, managerial and senior recruitment
Hands on executive search and headhunting experience, including proactive market mapping and passive candidate engagement
Confidence managing senior level recruitment with discretion, credibility and professionalism
Strong capability using LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean search and CV databases
Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the ability to build trust quickly
Sound understanding of inclusive, fair and safer recruitment in regulated environments
Desirable
Experience supporting Director, Head of or equivalent appointments
Background in the charity, health or social care sector
Knowledge of regulated recruitment (e.g. CQC or similar)
Experience strengthening diversity within senior pipelines
Interest in how AI and emerging technologies are shaping recruitment practice
CIPD or relevant recruitment qualification (or equivalent experience)
*We anticipate a high level of interest in this role and may close the advert early if we receive a large number of applications. We therefore encourage you to apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
Why join Rethink Mental Illness?
We believe people do their best work when they feel supported, valued and able to be themselves. You'll benefit from:
An inclusive culture, with colleague-led staff networks for Disability & Neurodiversity, Race & Ethnicity, LGBTQIA+, Gender Equality and Menopause.
Flexible working and 25 days' annual leave (plus bank holidays and your birthday off), with the option to buy or sell leave.
Wellbeing support including our Wellbeing Hub, Employee Assistance Programme, Wellbeing Champions and Unmind.
Learning and development opportunities to help you grow your career.
Financial and family benefits including a contributory pension, enhanced family leave and travel schemes.
Recognition and rewards including discounts, cashback offers and a Blue Light Card.
Referral bonus where you can earn up to £300 for introducing someone to our team.
Our commitment to inclusion
We're proud to be a Disability Confident Employer and a signatory to the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter. We're also committed to becoming a truly anti-racist employer, campaigning organisation and service provider supported by a multi-year equity, diversity and inclusion programme of work. For more information please view https://www.rethink.org/media/hdtjjy5b/revised-edi-plan-rethink.pdf
We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and experiences and want everyone to have the opportunity to demonstrate their skills and experience. If you need reasonable adjustments during recruitment or when in your role, please let us know and we will work with you to understand what support you need.
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