Learning & Development Consultant

The starting salary for this role is 20,792.50 (pro rata to 41,585 FTE), working 18 hours per week.

This is a 12-month fixed term contract/ secondment opportunity.

We have a great opportunity to join our Adults Academy as a Learning and Development consultant on a part-time basis.

We support hybrid working with the right balance, however as the role requires frequent travelling across our registered and in-house services, as well as our offices, we expect the person being able to work from different locations several times a week.

Our Offer to You

• 26 days' holiday, rising to 28 days after 2 years' service and 31 days after 5 years' service
• Option to buy up to 10 days of additional annual leave
• A generous local government salary related pension
• Up to 5 days of carer's leave and 2 paid volunteering days per year
• Paternity, adoption and dependents leave
• An Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) to support health and wellbeing
• Learning and development hub where you can access a wealth of resources
• Wellbeing and lifestyle discounts including gym, travel, and shopping
• A chance to make a real difference to the lives of our residents.

About The Role

Since June 2025, the Training Academy's role has expanded to support not only social care teams but all in-house CQC registered services, including reablement. Our services are CQC-regulated this role is critical in helping us raise practice standards.

The role will work closely with our Career Development Lead and will include:

• Providing intensive training, workforce development and development of good practice guides for in-house services, especially supported living services.
• Empowering in house services to meet the Care Certificate standards and mandatory training requirements for their service.
• Supporting our learning needs analysis and delivering targeted, consistence training and providing expert advice to partners and stakeholders
• Contributing to developing sustainable specialist programmes (like the Care Certificate and Admiral Nursing project) and using insights which empower services to shape future learning programmes.
• Co-producing and Delivering training, workshops, and reflective practice sessions directly to registered services.
• Supporting commissioning and managing external training providers, ensuring quality assurance of all training offers.
• Working closely with internal and external partners to create a diverse, accessible learning offer using different delivery methods and technology.
• Promoting and supporting our electronic Learning Management System across the adult social care directorate.

This role is key to driving practice improvements, consistent standards, and reflective practice across the adult social care directorate in house and registered services.

Your Application

In order to be considered for shortlisting, your application will clearly evidence the following skills and align with our behaviours:

• Experience and understanding around social care practice, including the underpinning legal frameworks.
• Awareness of the Care Certificate and CQC Single Assessment Framework for registered services.
• Experience and/ or understanding of contract management and quality assurance.
• Significant experience in working with and leading a variety of stakeholders and the ability to influence and direct.
• Experience in co-producing and delivering workshops, training and reflective practice sessions.
• Significant IT skills, including the use of Excel and PowerPoint.
• Ability to analyse data, ability to contribute to the development of new data sets and evaluation tools.
• Understanding of financial processes, including budget management and oversight.

To apply, we request that you submit a CV and you will be asked the following 3 questions: