Talent and Inclusion Business Partner (Maternity Cover)
| Posting date: | 17 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £34,664.67 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 July 2025 |
| Location: | Havant Campus - PO7 8AA |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | HSDC |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | HSDC194042 |
Summary
Job Details
Job Title: Talent and Inclusion Business Partner (Maternity Cover)
Department: People Services
Campus: Havant
Salary: Grade 5 Point 20 - £34,664.67 FTE
Contract Type: 1 Year Maternity cover (starting September 2025) / minimum of 24 hours per week but open to exploring up to full time.
About the Role
HSDC is seeking a proactive and strategic Talent and Inclusion Business Partner to join our People Services team on a 1-year maternity cover basis.
In this impactful role, you’ll lead on inclusive recruitment strategies, particularly for hard-to-fill roles, while building talent pipelines, enhancing staff retention, and promoting HSDC as an employer of choice. Working closely with managers and external partners, you’ll drive innovation in recruitment, support development opportunities, and champion equity, diversity, and inclusion across the College.
This is a fantastic opportunity to make a real difference in shaping a diverse and successful workforce.
Responsibilities
You will be responsible for:
• Co-ordinate and manage the recruitment and selection processes; including sourcing candidates for hard to recruit to roles, working closely with the People Services Business Partners and managers to understand vacancies and to provide solutions to minimise agency use and to enable the recruitment of high-quality candidates
• Building strong relationships with external networks and local organisations, such as Universities, to reach graduates and diverse local talent pools. Arranging and attending recruitment events and representing HSDC as an employer of choice.
• Trialling innovative recruitment strategies for both internal and external recruitment including the use of social media and specialist recruitment options
• Leading complete recruitment campaigns for new opportunities, developing an understanding of funding streams and developing excitement around the roles such as taster days, a day in the life projects or open events
• Analysis of recruitment data to identify any patterns or trends, monitoring and reporting of agency spend
• Ensuring legal right to work compliance, taking the lead in ensuring that all templates are up to date, being aware of legislation changes and ensuring practices support compliance and best practice.
Requirements
You will need:
• Recent experience of recruiting to hard to fill vacancies
• Recent experience of working within an HR function
• Good knowledge of recruitment and selection best practice and legislation
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to interact with colleagues and external contacts at all levels and build effective relationships.
• Level 5 CIPD Qualification or working towards
• Ability to deliver consistently professional, high-quality work and produce data to show quality
Benefits
In return, you will receive:
• Invest in Your Growth: Access a wide range of training, in-house coaching, workshops, and funding for qualifications. Opportunities for funded research, with potential international travel.
• Generous Pension Plans: Benefit from either the Local Government Pension Scheme or Teachers’ Pension Scheme.
• Ample Time Off: Enjoy a generous annual leave package to maintain a healthy work-life balance.
• Exclusive Discounts: Get an NUS TOTUM card, offering discounts with hundreds of retailers.
Visit our website to learn more!
Application
How to apply
We strive in offering an inclusive and accessible recruitment and interview process to all candidates. Should you have any questions at all, or require any support with reasonable adjustments, please contact recruitment@hsdc.ac.uk and a member of our team will respond as soon as possible.
For more information on the position itself, please connect with Katelyn Buenfeld at Katelyn.buenfeld@hsdc.ac.uk for any queries. Please note, we appreciate the value of each applicant but kindly ask that you complete an application form as we do not accept CV’s.
Job Title: Talent and Inclusion Business Partner (Maternity Cover)
Department: People Services
Campus: Havant
Salary: Grade 5 Point 20 - £34,664.67 FTE
Contract Type: 1 Year Maternity cover (starting September 2025) / minimum of 24 hours per week but open to exploring up to full time.
About the Role
HSDC is seeking a proactive and strategic Talent and Inclusion Business Partner to join our People Services team on a 1-year maternity cover basis.
In this impactful role, you’ll lead on inclusive recruitment strategies, particularly for hard-to-fill roles, while building talent pipelines, enhancing staff retention, and promoting HSDC as an employer of choice. Working closely with managers and external partners, you’ll drive innovation in recruitment, support development opportunities, and champion equity, diversity, and inclusion across the College.
This is a fantastic opportunity to make a real difference in shaping a diverse and successful workforce.
Responsibilities
You will be responsible for:
• Co-ordinate and manage the recruitment and selection processes; including sourcing candidates for hard to recruit to roles, working closely with the People Services Business Partners and managers to understand vacancies and to provide solutions to minimise agency use and to enable the recruitment of high-quality candidates
• Building strong relationships with external networks and local organisations, such as Universities, to reach graduates and diverse local talent pools. Arranging and attending recruitment events and representing HSDC as an employer of choice.
• Trialling innovative recruitment strategies for both internal and external recruitment including the use of social media and specialist recruitment options
• Leading complete recruitment campaigns for new opportunities, developing an understanding of funding streams and developing excitement around the roles such as taster days, a day in the life projects or open events
• Analysis of recruitment data to identify any patterns or trends, monitoring and reporting of agency spend
• Ensuring legal right to work compliance, taking the lead in ensuring that all templates are up to date, being aware of legislation changes and ensuring practices support compliance and best practice.
Requirements
You will need:
• Recent experience of recruiting to hard to fill vacancies
• Recent experience of working within an HR function
• Good knowledge of recruitment and selection best practice and legislation
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to interact with colleagues and external contacts at all levels and build effective relationships.
• Level 5 CIPD Qualification or working towards
• Ability to deliver consistently professional, high-quality work and produce data to show quality
Benefits
In return, you will receive:
• Invest in Your Growth: Access a wide range of training, in-house coaching, workshops, and funding for qualifications. Opportunities for funded research, with potential international travel.
• Generous Pension Plans: Benefit from either the Local Government Pension Scheme or Teachers’ Pension Scheme.
• Ample Time Off: Enjoy a generous annual leave package to maintain a healthy work-life balance.
• Exclusive Discounts: Get an NUS TOTUM card, offering discounts with hundreds of retailers.
Visit our website to learn more!
Application
How to apply
We strive in offering an inclusive and accessible recruitment and interview process to all candidates. Should you have any questions at all, or require any support with reasonable adjustments, please contact recruitment@hsdc.ac.uk and a member of our team will respond as soon as possible.
For more information on the position itself, please connect with Katelyn Buenfeld at Katelyn.buenfeld@hsdc.ac.uk for any queries. Please note, we appreciate the value of each applicant but kindly ask that you complete an application form as we do not accept CV’s.
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