Learning and Development Manager

Tate; Milton Keynes; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization seeks a Learning & Development Manager to oversee the creation and delivery of training programs across the UK. This role is home-based with travel, focusing on enhancing career development pathways and compliance standards. Candidates should have significant L&D experience and strong communication skills. Join us to modernize learning in a mission-driven environment with a competitive package and robust support for professional growth.

Benefits

Home-based flexibility

Ongoing professional development

Collaborative culture

Qualifications

• Significant experience in Learning & Development (L&D) including design and delivery.
• Ability to create induction frameworks and career pathways.
• Strong analytical skills to evaluate and improve learning programmes.

Responsibilities

• Own induction pathways for teams ensuring clarity and compliance.
• Design career frameworks mapping competencies and skills.
• Lead blended learning approaches with digital and experiential methods.

Skills

L&D experience

Communication skills

Stakeholder engagement

Blended learning design

Education

CIPD Level 5/7 (or equivalent)

Tools

Digital learning tools

Learning Management Systems (LMS)

Job description

Learning & Development Manager

Location: Home-based (UK) with national travel

Function: Human Resources (Corporate)

Reports to: People & Culture Director

Salary: £50K to £60K DOE

Help shape a culture of continuous learning across a nationwide, regulated healthcare organisation. We're looking for a Learning & Development Manager to design and deliver high‑impact programmes from induction to leadership development, so colleagues have clear pathways to grow, perform and provide outstanding care.

What you'll do

• Own induction pathways for practice and corporate teams, ensuring role clarity, safety, compliance and cultural integration.
• Design career frameworks (clinical & non-clinical): map competencies, skills, qualifications and clear progression routes.
• Build talent pathways: leadership development, succession planning and fair, transparent talent reviews.
• Lead blended learning: balance digital, in‑person and experiential; develop role‑specific, competency‑based modules.
• Introduce learning tech and tools that lift accessibility, engagement and outcomes; collaborate with Digital Learning/LMS leads.
• Embed values & behaviors across all programmes, patient care, teamwork, safeguarding, leadership and professional conduct.
• Oversee apprenticeships & early careers: maximise levy usage, partner with providers, track quality and outcomes; expand traineeships, placements and pre‑registration routes.
• Ensure regulatory alignment with primary care standards (e.g. CQC, safeguarding, clinical governance; familiarity with Ofsted/NHS guidance).
• Measure impact via feedback, retention and evaluation data; iterate for continuous improvement.

What you'll bring

• Significant L&D experience, including blended learning design and delivery.
• Proven background in induction frameworks, career pathways or talent programmes.
• Knowledge of apprenticeships, levy processes and provider management.
• Strong communication, facilitation and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Confidence in using learning data to evaluate and improve programmes.
• Experience operating across multiple sites and managing national initiatives in regulated environments ideally.

Nice to have

• CIPD Level 5/7 (or equivalent).
• Primary care/public sector workforce knowledge.
• Experience with digital learning tools/LMS.
• Coaching or leadership development qualifications.

Why join?

• Real scope to build from the ground up and modernise learning across a complex, mission‑led organisation.
• Collaborative culture with clinical leaders, HR and practice managers.
• Home-based flexibility with purposeful UK travel.
• Competitive package and ongoing professional development.

We will keep this advert open until the vacancy has been filled. Interviews will take place throughout this period, therefore we encourage you to apply early to avoid disappointment.

Tate is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

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