Learning Academy Manager

WMJobs; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing with service

Free on-site parking and electric car charging

Access to employee benefits scheme

Flexible and hybrid working policy

Local government pension scheme

Job summary

WMJobs is looking for a Learning Academy Manager based in Birmingham. In this role, you will lead the development of innovative learning programs focused on quality assurance. Collaborating with various stakeholders, you will drive improvements in social work practice, ensuring impactful outcomes for children and families.

Your experience and passion for developing people will be pivotal in creating a culture of continuous learning and delivering effective leadership programs.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in children's social work practice.
• Strong understanding of safeguarding and challenges facing families.
• Passion for developing people and continuous improvement.
• Experience in designing and evaluating learning programs.
• Ability to facilitate learning with various stakeholders.
• Experience in supervising or managing others.
• Skilled in relationship building and collaboration.
• Ability to analyze information and translate it into practice improvement.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of learning driven by quality assurance insights.
• Manage and develop the Learning Academy team.
• Identify and translate emerging themes into learning opportunities.
• Evaluate the impact of learning on practice.
• Design and deliver leadership development programs.
• Facilitate learning events and coach others.

Skills

Experience in children's social work practice

Understanding of social work practice and safeguarding

Ability to develop people and culture of learning

Experience in designing and delivering learning programs

Facilitation skills with practitioners and leaders

Experience in supervising or coaching others

Relationship building and influencing skills

Analytical skills for practice improvement

Job description

About the role

As Learning Academy Manager, you will lead the development of learning driven by quality assurance practice insight and organisational priorities. Working closely with quality assurance colleagues, operational leaders and practitioners, you will help close the loop between audit and review activity, the development you provide to our workforce, improvements in practice and ultimately better outcomes for children and families. You will support and oversee learning across the social work development pathway and design and deliver leadership development programmes, facilitate learning events, coach and support others, and ensure the learning offer remains innovative, evidence‑informed and impactful.

In this strategic and operational role you will manage and develop the Learning Academy team, identify emerging themes, translate them into meaningful learning opportunities and evaluate the impact of learning on practice. You must reside within a commutable distance of Birmingham and hold the right‑to‑work documents to work in the UK; sponsorship is not supported.

About you

• You have significant experience of children’s social work practice.
• You have a strong understanding of excellent social work practice, safeguarding and the challenges facing children and families.
• You are passionate about developing people and creating a culture of learning and continuous improvement.
• You have experience designing, delivering and evaluating learning and development programmes.
• You can confidently facilitate learning with practitioners, managers and senior leaders.
• You have experience supervising, coaching or managing others.
• You are skilled at building relationships, influencing practice and working collaboratively across services.
• You can analyse information, identify themes and translate them into meaningful practice improvement.

Benefits

• 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing to 33 days after 5 years and 35 days after 10 years of service.
• Free on‑site parking at our offices and free electric car charging ports.
• Full access to an employee benefits scheme including occupational health services, rewards schemes, benefits discounts, health & fitness and personal wellbeing support.
• Flexible and hybrid working policy.
• Local government career average pension scheme.