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 per annum (dependent on experience)
Closing date: Tuesday, 21 April 2026 at 00:59
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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 Work With Rethink Mental Illness?
At Rethink Mental Illness, we believe that when you feel supported, you can make the biggest difference. That’s why we offer a range of benefits to help you thrive:
Inclusive Culture: Join staff networks that champion diversity and inclusion.
Wellbeing Support: Access our Wellbeing Hub, Employee Assistance Programme, and the Unmind mental health app.
Recognition & Rewards: Enjoy discounts, cashback offers, and celebrate achievements through our PULSE platform.
Flexible Working & Generous Leave: Starting at 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays and your birthday off), with options to buy or sell extra days.
Learning & Development: Grow your career with structured onboarding and training opportunities.
Financial & Family Support: Contributory pension scheme, enhanced family leave, and travel benefits like season ticket loans and cycle-to-work schemes.
Referral Bonus: Earn up to £300 for introducing someone to our team.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion
Diversity is important to us, and we appreciate difference through difference, inclusiveness and belonging. It gives us a deeper understanding of the world, our society and the diverse communities we’re working with. By including everyone, we are able to draw on the unique experiences and expertise of our people to help shape and enrich our workplace and improve our services. One way we are doing is through our valued staff networks which play a critical and highly valued role in keeping us focused on creating a diverse, inclusive and engaged employer. We recognise and support staff networks and support groups for our ethnically diverse and LGBTQIA+ colleagues. We are also proud to have been awarded Disability Confident Employer status and are a signatory to the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter.
We aim for our workforce to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve; for those who work for us to feel heard, valued and feel they belong; and for our work to help tackle wider mental health inequalities. We therefore actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including applicants with lived experience of mental illness, those who are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer or Questioning, Intersex, Asexual and any other gender identity not expressed here (LGBTQIA+); people who are neurodiverse, have a health condition, or a disability or hidden disability and people from an ethnically diverse background - regardless of your age, religious or spiritual belief, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, political view or socio-economic status.
Becoming a truly anti-racist organisation
We have an ambition of become a truly anti-racist employer, campaigning organisation and service provider - and in our efforts to influence policy and wider societal factors impacting on mental health set out in our anti-racist statement . We have designed a multi-year anti-racist programme of work contained in our Race Equality Action Plan which demonstrates our intention to hold ourselves accountable and be judged on our progress on becoming a truly anti-racist organisation.
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