Training and Development Manager

About us at Hounslow

We'd love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.

We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we've built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London's most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.

We live by five core values:
Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in "Harness the Mix". It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.

We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.

As part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There's space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.

If you join us, you'll have access to a range of employee benefits. Read more about these here.

The London Borough of Hounslow are seeking to recruit a Training and Development Manager to join us on a permanent, full-time basis, working 36 hours per week.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced safeguarding professional who is passionate about developing high-quality practice and improving outcomes for children, young people and families. Working closely with the Principal Social Worker, you will lead the commissioning, coordination, delivery and evaluation of safeguarding training across Children's Specialist Services.

As the strategic lead for safeguarding learning and development, you will identify workforce development needs, design and implement innovative training solutions, and ensure that learning opportunities reflect current legislation, research, national developments and learning from local and national reviews.

You will play a key role in driving practice improvement across Children's Services, supporting a culture of continuous learning and professional curiosity. Working collaboratively with senior leaders, practitioners and partner agencies, you will help shape and deliver our workforce development priorities while ensuring commissioned training provides excellent value for money and delivers measurable impact.

This role offers the opportunity to influence practice across the whole children's workforce, develop innovative approaches to learning and development, and make a lasting contribution to safeguarding outcomes across Hounslow.

You will be working in Safeguarding & Quality Assurance under the Workforce Development Team, collaborating with Hounslow Safeguarding Partnership. The primary focus is on building the knowledge and skills of our workforce, leading to provision of safe and high-level interventions with children, young people, and families.…