Learning And Development Specialist

TRAIN THE BEST TO BE THE BEST

Community Integrated Care is currently seeking a Learning and Development Specialist to join the People team on a fulltime permanent basis. This role will support the South-Central Region particularly Oxford and surrounding areas so you can be based anywhere across the region or within an hours commute of Oxford.

What is The Deal for you?

• Flexibility! You can work your full-time hours over 4 days and enjoy a long weekend, or work over 5 days to accommodate your other commitments. You can work from home, or from our office in Hertfordshire or Portsmouth – or flex between the two
• Benefits: retail discounts, holiday discounts, cycle to work scheme and travel discounts through our benefits app
• Best Lives Possible: You'll be working for an award winning charity who is passionate about ensuring our colleagues and the people we support lead the best lives possible.
• Development: We'll work with you to develop your career or to learn and experience new things. We're passionate about developing our people!
• Support: From our Employee Assistance Programme (available 24/7), financial support options, and wellbeing fund you'll have the support available to lead an easier (financial) life

This important role delivers high quality and engaging training to give our front-line colleagues the skills and knowledge they need to be brilliant in their roles, ensuring the safety and wellbeing of the people we support and enabling them to lead the best life possible.

You’ll work with the regional People team to support the delivery of great learning – either face to face or virtually across the region. Overnight stays may be required on an ad-hoc basis.

Day to Day (list not exhaustive see job description):

• Delivering brilliant training sessions on a range of subjects – from first aid, and safeguarding, to how to administer medication, or positive behavioural support techniques.
• Working with our bespoke digital learning platform “Dare to Learn”
• Running reports and using information to spot trends
• Forecasting needs and scheduling courses
• Working with local leaders to ensure their team’s learning needs are met

Our Ideal Candidate

• You are brilliant at communicating - you find it easy to explain things in a way that is easy for others to understand
• People might say you tell a great story – you’re brilliant at bringing subjects to life with great anecdotes, making topics relatable to your audience
• You pick up systems quickly - it never takes you long to learn a new app, programme, or website.
• You love working with people - you are confident talking to a group, leading discussions, and trying to get the best from people
• You love being in charge of your own diary and setting your own schedule.
• You are looking for variety – some days delivering from your desk and others travelling and delivering training face to face

Skills and Experience

• You’ll have extensive on-the-job experience leading and facilitating brilliant training sessions or an NVQ L3 in Health and Social Care
• Education or training qualification would be beneficial (PTTLS, PGCE, Level 3 in Education And Training or similar)
• You'll have brilliant IT skills
• You’ll need a full UK driving licence to travel for this role

Please note, if you are interested in this role, we welcome your application as soon as possible! Depending on the volume of applications received, the vacancy may be closed before the expected advertising end date.

Interested and want to know a bit more?

To find out more about our charity check out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-zYkoj7x8s

We’re really proud to be a Hive HR Employee Voice Certified organisation, a recognition that confirms our commitment to creating a culture where our colleagues are not only encouraged to share their thoughts, but where this feedback is actively sought and acted upon to drive positive change at every level.

In our 2023 Colleague Engagement Survey, 56% (over 3,300!) of our people shared their feedback and insights, giving us an incredible Employee Net Promoter Score of +28. This is a measure of how positively our colleagues talk about us – and 28 is an excellent score compared to other organisations!