Early Careers PartnerFull Time / Permanent / 37.50 hours per week (some out of normal work hours is required)Type of Role: Hybrid - WFH and Travelling to Our offices / Colleges / Nurseries / Workshops / Job ShowsDriving Licence and Car EssentialSalary From £30k doeClosing Date: 28th February 2026 or until the right candidate is hired Purpose of Role:This role supports the Early Careers Manager to deliver key initiatives including recruiting student placements, apprentices and qualified practitioners. The role will build and maintain strong relationships with numerous education establishments and internal stakeholders to raise awareness of Early Years as a career and deliver early careers talent into the business.Responsible for:Support the Early Careers Team with the ongoing development and management of recruiting activity for student placements, and our apprenticeship programme.Deliver an end to end 360 recruitment and compliance service for Student Placements at Bright Horizons including scheduling interviews and completing references checks.Ensure all students are correctly inducted and assigned mentorship on commencement of their placement and provide regular feedback to both student and education facility.Work with the business and student placements to offer the students paid employment in our nurseries subject to managers approvalEnsure the Bright Horizons Safer Recruitment policy remains paramount throughout all recruitment processes.Keep in touch with early careers recruits during the compliance period to promote continued engagement.Review open apprenticeship and graduate requisitions to ensure correct roles are being recruited.Attending, scheduling, and organising recruitment events alongside early careers teamTaking ownership on event follow up, ensuring that all candidates met with are contacted and passed onto the relevant recruiter for next steps.Regularly assess recruitment activities with Early Careers Manager to ensure their effectiveness and success at achieving desired outcomes and ROI withContinuously updating school, college, and university databases to ensure we have covered all locations and have correct contact details stored for stakeholders Send out mailshots to schools, colleges and universities promoting events and opportunities.Responding to enquiries from schools, colleges, and university partners, delivering a first-class experience.Acting as a T-Level and Apprenticeship Ambassador as and when requiredWork in partnership with the Talent Attraction team to identify content to drive out across out careers social channels which supports talent attraction and employer brand engagement across the Early Careers spaceAct as an ambassador of Bright Horizons, looking for constant opportunities to promote the employer brand, living the heart principles of Bright Horizons, and demonstrating passion for delivery of an outstanding recruitment service to the business.Overseeing the Bright Horizons early careers email inboxesEssential Experience:Experience in a similar Early Years role, knowledge of Early Years qualificationsExperience of Microsoft office including, word, excel, outlook, PowerPoint, and Teams A positive and engaging individual who can confidently present and communicate at all levelsExperience of working across different teams to achieve outcomesAbility to work at pace in a demanding environmentPassion for recruitment and peopleDriving licence and car – mobility is needed to access the variety of venues you need to travel toExperience Desirable:Knowledge and experience of Workday and Phenom SystemsExperience of designing and improving internal processes.Experience and knowledge of recruiting for student placements, apprentices and graduatesIn house/ internal recruitment experienceExperience of or in the childcare sectorProject management experiencePersonal AttributesA ‘can-do’ attitude with the ability to prioritise workload to meet the demands of the business including the delivery and execution of projects on timeMust be analytical, with great attention to detailMust have excellent customer service and interpersonal skills, oral and written communication skillsThe ability to work in a fast-paced environment whilst meeting deadlinesMust be willing to travel to events and our nurseries on a regular basis, some out of hours working is requiredWe look forward to receiving your application!
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