Learning Consultant

Brighton & Hove City Council; Hove; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 30,000; Part time

Job summary

Brighton & Hove City Council is seeking a Learning Consultant to drive Health & Safety learning across services, shaping the council's Learning Organisation ambitions and improving workforce development. You will design, deliver and evaluate learning interventions across digital, blended and face-to-face formats.

Join an ambitious, values-led organisation that supports flexible working. The role offers opportunities to collaborate with managers, use data to improve training, and lead on learning

Qualifications

• Understanding of effective learning and development approaches
• Ability to design, deliver, contract or support engaging learning opportunities across formats
• Strong facilitation, communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• Experience working with digital learning tools and platforms
• Ability to analyse learning data and use evidence to improve practice
• Proactive and collaborative approach to building relationships and supporting change
• Commitment to equality, inclusion and accessible learning environments

Responsibilities

• Acting as the lead consultant for Health & Safety learning, ensuring staff have access to high-quality learning that supports compliance and safe working practices
• Designing, delivering and evaluating engaging learning interventions across digital, blended and face-to-face formats
• Providing learning consultancy and advice to services, supporting managers to identify development needs and implement the Learning Framework
• Coordinating, commissioning and contracting learning programmes, ensuring quality standards are met and resources are used effectively
• Using data and feedback to evaluate impact and enhance learning provision and outcomes
• Supporting the development of innovative digital and blended learning solutions

Skills

Learning strategy

Design and delivery

Facilitation & stakeholder engagement

Digital learning tools

Data-driven improvement

Collaborative change management

Equality and inclusion

Tools

Learning Management Systems

Job description

Contractual hours: 30

Package: We are pleased to offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your wellbeing. You can read about them on our Why work for us pages., As a Learning Consultant, you will play a key role in delivering the council's Learning Organisation ambitions. Working across a diverse range of services, you will design, coordinate and continuously improve learning opportunities that support organisational priorities, workforce development and service improvement. You will also lead on the council's Health & Safety learning offer, ensuring colleagues have access to high-quality learning that supports safe and effective working. Key responsibilities include:

• Acting as the lead consultant for Health & Safety learning and development, ensuring staff have access to high-quality learning that supports compliance, safe working practices and organisational priorities.
• Designing, delivering and evaluating engaging learning interventions across digital, blended and face-to-face formats.
• Providing learning consultancy and advice to services, supporting managers to identify development needs and implement the Learning Framework.
• Coordinating, commissioning and contracting learning programmes, ensuring quality standards are met and resources are used effectively.
• Using data and feedback to evaluate impact and enhance learning provision and outcomes.
• Supporting the development of innovative digital and blended learning solutions.

You will join an ambitious, values-led organisation that is investing in its people through its Learning Organisation Framework and commitment to continuous improvement. This is an opportunity to shape learning across a diverse range of services, lead an important area of workforce development through Health & Safety learning, and help create a workforce that is connected, confident and capable of delivering excellent services for our communities.

Encouraging a diverse workforce

Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans. Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our actions, our and the work we are doing to Why work for us?

As a council, we want to:

• be connected
• be confident
• be innovative and creative
• be diverse and inclusive
• be healthy and psychologically safe

You are someone who is enthusiastic about learning and development and motivated by helping others grow and succeed. You enjoy building positive relationships, working collaboratively with a wide range of people, and finding practical ways to support learning, development and organisational improvement.

You will bring:

• An understanding of effective learning and development approaches and how they can support individual, team and organisational performance.
• The ability to design, deliver, contract or support engaging learning opportunities across a range of formats.
• Strong facilitation, communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Experience working with digital learning tools and platforms.
• The ability to analyse learning data and use evidence to improve practice.
• A proactive and collaborative approach to building relationships and supporting change.
• A commitment to equality, inclusion and creating positive, safe and accessible learning environments.

Are you passionate about helping people learn, develop and perform at their best?

Would you like work collaboratively with services to identify learning needs and create practical, engaging learning solutions that make a real difference?

Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only. We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining. Your contractual location will be the designated council office for your team and travel to and from your contractual location would be at your own expense.