Talent Partner
Location: Cardale Park, Harrogate. A hybrid working option is available but it’s important to us to have our team together on site for most of the week.
Hours: 37.5 hours per week although part time hours with a minimum of 30 hours per week across 4 days may be considered.
Salary: Up to £50,000 per annum FTE depending on experience
Make a Difference Every Day
At Oakdale, we believe in care that changes lives. For over 25 years, we’ve been delivering trusted, evidence-based therapies and assessments for children, young people, and adults. As a values-driven organisation, we work with the NHS, schools, local authorities, and private clients, always putting people first.
Now, we’re looking for a Talent Partner to lead end-to-end resourcing across the Group and to play an active role in shaping our learning and development.
If you’re passionate about attracting, recruiting and developing amazing people that do meaningful and impactful work, we’d love to hear from you.
The Role – What You’ll Do
Key Responsibilities:
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Own end-to-end recruitment across clinical and support roles, from vacancy approval through to offer and onboarding.
- Partner with hiring managers to build workforce and resourcing plans aligned to service demand, CQC and Ofsted requirements and budget.
- Design and continuously improve attraction strategies, including job design, advertising and candidate pipelines for hard-to-fill clinical roles.
- Lead selection best practice and inclusive, values-based hiring decisions.
- Own recruitment compliance, including safer recruitment, DBS, right-to-work and professional registration checks.
- Support the HR Director in designing and building learning and development frameworks, and champion career pathways and internal mobility.
- Track and report on recruitment KPIs (time to hire, cost per hire, offer acceptance, agency spend) via Employment Hero.
- Own the new starter experience, ensuring a smooth, compliant onboarding for every new joiner
- Line-manage and develop a People Administrator, setting clear objectives and supporting their growth.
- Ensure statutory and mandatory training compliance is tracked and reported for CQC and Ofsted purposes.
About You:
We are looking to recruit a proactive, hands-on resourcing professional with a strong track record in recruitment, ideally gained within health, social care or another regulated sector, who is confident building relationships at every level and has a genuine interest in helping people grow and develop.
Qualifications
Essential:
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CIPD qualification (Level 5 or above), or equivalent experience.
Experience
Essential:
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Demonstrable experience delivering an in-house resourcing service, ideally within health, social care or another regulated sector.
- Strong track record of designing and delivering resourcing strategies that improve business outcomes.
- Experience managing recruitment compliance requirements, including safer recruitment and DBS checks.
- An interest in developing career development pathways and skills development programmes.
- Experience line-managing and developing team members.
Desirable
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Experience recruiting for clinical, healthcare or neurodevelopmental/psychological services roles.
- Experience of delivering initiatives that support learning and development and internal career progression.
- Understanding of CQC and/or Ofsted requirements relating to workforce, training and safer recruitment.
Knowledge & Skills
Essential:
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Confident using HRIS platforms for recruitment and onboarding
- Strong stakeholder management skills, able to influence hiring managers and senior leaders.
- Working knowledge of safer recruitment, DBS, right-to-work and professional registration requirements.
Desirable:
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Familiarity with Employment Hero or similar cloud-based HRIS platforms.
Mobility & Flexibility
Essential:
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Ability and willingness to travel between Oakdale centres as required by service needs.
Desirable:
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Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes
Why Join Oakdale?
At Oakdale, your well-being and growth matter as much as the clients you support. We offer a package designed for balance, flexibility, and long-term career satisfaction, including:
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33 days’ annual leave (including bank holidays), increasing with service
- Flexible and agile working from day one
- SimplyHealth: 24/7 GP access, counselling, physiotherapy, and more
- Exclusive, heavily discounted rates for you and your family on private ADHD and autism neurodevelopmental assessments, through our own expert service.*
- Fully funded flu vaccines
- Employee Wellbeing Initiative with trained mental health champions
- Smart Pension & Rewards: plan for your future with discounts and cashback
- Enhanced Occupational Sick Pay
- Cycle to Work & Technology Salary Sacrifice schemes
- Employee discount scheme
- Protected CPD days, annual away days, and high-quality training
- Professional registration fees covered (where applicable)
- Opportunities to influence service improvement and innovation
- Laptop, monitor, keyboard, and any additional equipment you need to do your best work
- Discounts apply to dependents living within the same household
At Oakdale, a leading private mental health service provider, our people are at the heart of everything we do. We’re more than a team - we’re a community of passionate, talented professionals committed to delivering excellence in mental health care, case management and service development
