Talent Acquisition Partner

Salary: £40,000
Location: Hybrid, Bedford
Hours & Basis: Full time, 37 hours per week

Build talent pipelines. Shape future capability. Make a difference.

Are you an experienced Talent Acquisition professional who wants to influence more than the next hire?

We're looking for a confident and forward-thinking Talent Acquisition Partner to help bpha attract the people and skills we need, both now and for the future. You'll partner with leaders and managers, bringing expert advice, market insight and constructive challenge to help them make informed, inclusive hiring decisions.

This is a varied and influential role where you'll balance strategic thinking with practical delivery. From developing attraction strategies for hard-to-fill roles and building sustainable talent pipelines, to strengthening our employer brand and improving candidate experience, you'll have the opportunity to shape how we attract talent across bpha.

What you'll be doing

• Partnering with leaders and managers to understand workforce priorities and future talent needs
• Developing creative attraction and sourcing strategies for specialist and hard-to-fill roles
• Building diverse talent pipelines and relationships with external networks and talent communities
• Coaching managers to make fair, objective and evidence-based hiring decisions
• Using recruitment data and labour-market insight to improve performance and inform workforce planning
• Championing an inclusive, accessible and engaging experience for every candidate
• Leading improvements to recruitment processes, systems and ways of working

We'd love to hear from you if you

• Have strong experience in talent acquisition, recruitment partnering or strategic resourcing
• Can build trusted relationships and confidently influence senior stakeholders
• Understand sourcing, attraction, assessment and talent-pipeline development
• Are comfortable using data and market insight to shape recommendations
• Care about inclusive hiring and delivering an excellent candidate experience
• Enjoy taking ownership, challenging established thinking and finding better ways to recruit

You'll thrive here if you can see the bigger picture while still getting things done, turning business needs into practical talent solutions that make a lasting difference.

Why join bpha?

bpha is a leading housing association within the Oxford to Cambridge Arc, providing affordable homes and services and reinvesting its income into homes and communities. Our values are at the heart of how we work: we are ambitious, we show empathy, we are better together and we take responsibility.

We also offer a supportive working environment and a comprehensive benefits package designed to help colleagues feel happy, healthy and inspired.

If you're ready to move beyond vacancy filling and help shape the future of Talent Acquisition at bpha, we'd love to hear from you.

Don't meet every single requirement? We still encourage you to apply. Your transferable experience, values and potential could make you a great fit for the role.

Applications will be reviewed as they are received, and we reserve the right to close the vacancy early, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

About bpha

bpha is a leading Housing Association in the Oxford to Cambridge arc, providing high-quality, affordable homes and services. We own or manage over 19,500 properties and reinvest all income into improving homes, building new ones, and supporting communities. Our vision is to build places where people can live happily in homes they can afford, guided by value that shape everything we do.

Benefits

We believe that benefits should be more than just perks. For us, they aren't simply little extras added on at the end, they're fundamental parts of what we stand for, from the very beginning. As standard.

That's why at bpha, we reward our employees by making sure we give them a supportive and caring environment, that empowers them to be happy, healthy and inspired, every day.

Our full benefits offering can be found here: https://www.bpha.org.uk/about-us/bpha-colleague-benefits/139/