Talent Acquisition Specialist

We are looking for an additional Talent Acquisition Specialist to join our team.  This is a unique opportunity to join the firm at an exciting time of growth, to provide a consultative, proactive recruitment service.   You would be providing tailored support throughout the full lifecycle of a vacancy, from initial requirements, scoping and securing the relevant approval, through to recommending resourcing strategy and candidate assessment options, offer negotiation and onboarding.

About the Team

You’d be joining a dedicated in-house team, led by Ellen Marsh.  You'd work closely with Lucy Burt, Lyndsay Burder and Sarah Williams, collaborating on projects but taking ownership of, and leading on recruitment for at least one of our key practice groups.  

We are flexible as to where you are based, but you'll need to be able to work in person in our Bristol or Exeter office at least 3 days per week.  As the firm grows, there will also be an element of travel involved with the role.  You will be encouraged to visit all of our offices and develop your own understanding of the varying legal markets in each location. 

Our Talent Acquisition Team is strategically aligned in order to support and enable the continued success of the firm through the acquisition of the very best available talent, recruited at the right time at the right level into the right roles. We work closely with HR Business Partner colleagues and the wider HR team to proactively support the firm with every aspect of recruitment, whilst delivering exemplary customer service in every interaction.

What we're looking for

To be successful in this role, you will need to be an excellent communicator and be highly organised.  You will be an experienced Recruiter from within a professional services/business environment and be highly motivated to deliver exceptional service.  You will be comfortable managing deadlines and used to managing multiple roles and stakeholders.  You will regularly write content for job adverts and have a good understanding of recruitment advertising, along with a passion for an excellent candidate and client/stakeholder experience.

Whilst this is inevitably a demanding and busy role, we are hugely proud of the supportive and welcoming culture within the team and wider firm, where you will be personally and professionally encouraged and supported to do a fantastic job. We care enormously about our work, striving to deliver the best results to our internal and external stakeholders, so this role will suit you perfectly if you share our passion for the highest standards of recruitment, all day, every day. 

We would really like to hear from you if you are considering a move. Perhaps you are currently working agency side and want to make the move in-house.  Or maybe you are currently working in-house but are looking for a role that will allow you to develop your experience in the legal sector.   Either way, do get in touch with ay member of the team to find out more. 

Pre-employment screening

Successful applicants will be required to complete a pre-employment screening process which includes a financial integrity check and a DBS check. If you wish to discuss any issues or questions in connection with this, please do speak in confidence with a member of the Talent Acquisition Team at [email protected]

Eligibility to work in the UK

Eligibility to work in the UK will be verified in the final stages of the selection process. All candidates must be able to prove their right to work in the UK, which may include meeting the Home Office criteria for Visa sponsorship. Candidates who require sponsorship should evaluate the Home Office eligibility criteria for a Skilled Worker visa before applying and keep up to date with any legal developments.

Our offer to you

In return for your efforts, you can expect considerable scope for personal as well as professional development. We encourage people to engage with our popular and well supported coaching and mentoring programmes, which connect you to people right across the firm and at every level. We create space for mental and physical wellbeing with our weekly Lifestyle Hour, 28 days annual leave, a day off for your birthday, and a sabbatical you can take every 5 years. You can also buy holiday and manage your benefits flexibly using our sophisticated portal to configure your total reward offer according to what you value most. As part of this, you can make ongoing or one-off donations to our charitable foundation and access our CSR programme where you can engage with community-based initiatives (as a team, or individually) twice a year, to give something back where you feel it matters. Take a look here to find out more about Our benefits | Foot Anstey.

Why Foot Anstey?

As one of the UK’s fastest growing law firms, Foot Anstey believes in helping our clients and people achieve their ambitions, unlocking new and exciting opportunities. Our team of business and legal advisors are motivated by understanding clients’ goals and collaborating with them and other advisers to deliver solutions.  By becoming our clients’ most trusted advisor, we are enabling them to achieve their ambitions. How we do it is just as important as what we do. Our values define the way we act with our clients and one another every day, and because of these we think our culture and environment sets us apart.

Over our history we’ve grown from a high-street firm to a significant regional and national player working with leading brands and individuals predominantly across seven key sectors: Private Equity, Retail & Consumer, Energy & Infrastructure, Islamic Finance, Developer, Charities and Private Wealth. Our strategy of gaining market share through meeting clients’ needs, investing in and developing high quality talent and using technology and innovation to enhance our services has led to significant growth. We now operate from seven locations with offices in Truro, Plymouth, Exeter, Taunton, Bristol, Southampton, and London. We also have office hubs in Manchester and Guildford.  

Our people are central to our success, in every part of the business. We actively support our employees to achieve their aspirations through offering meaningful careers with balanced rewards, which have been carefully designed to focus on personal wellbeing. We offer continual opportunities for support and professional development through our Talent Development programme and believe in empowering each other to achieve and strive to create a progressive and inclusive working environment. Being forward-thinking, we are open to discussing flexible working patterns for all of our vacancies, with over 40% of our existing employees having a permanent flexible working pattern. In addition, our impressive suite of flexible benefits will enable you to prioritise what matters most to you.

Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is integral to delivering our strategy, and we were delighted to be awarded the National Equality Standard for a second time in 2021.  We consider this to be right at the heart of our priorities and goes way beyond our policies – it’s something we consider across everything we do, from the make-up of our client teams, encouraging staff to reach their potential, through to our leadership. We aim to support our clients and our people to achieve their goals, regardless of background, gender, race, beliefs, sexuality or other non-work related factors. We champion aspiration and encourage it in everyone that works with us.  As such we actively encourage applications from all suitably qualified people, regardless of any characteristics protected by law. If you apply for this role you may be encouraged to answer our diversity and social mobility monitoring questions, so please be reassured that any answers you provide will remain entirely anonymous and confidential and will in no way impact your application.

Foot Anstey. Powering Your Ambition.