Learning Consultant

Brighton and Hove City Council; Portslade by Sea; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Brighton & Hove City Council is seeking a Learning Consultant to deliver high‑quality learning and development across services, driving the council’s Learning Organisation ambitions. You will lead Health & Safety learning, design and evaluate learning interventions, and support managers to identify needs and implement the Learning Framework.

The role emphasises collaboration, data‑driven improvements, inclusive environments and flexible approaches to learning delivery to improve outcomes for

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Act as lead consultant for Health & Safety learning and development, ensuring high‑quality learning supports compliance and safe working practices.
• Design, deliver and evaluate engaging learning interventions across digital, blended and face‑to‑face formats.
• Provide learning consultancy and advice to services, supporting managers to identify development needs and implement the Learning Framework.
• Coordinate, commission and contract learning programmes, ensuring quality standards and efficient use of resources.
• Use data and feedback to evaluate impact and enhance learning provision and outcomes.
• Support the development of innovative digital and blended learning solutions.
• Promote inclusive, accessible and psychologically safe learning environments.

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location_on Location Hove Town Hall, Norton Road, Hove, BN3 3BQ

work_outline Basis Flexi Hours

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Learning Consultant

location_on Hove Town Hall, Norton Road, Hove, BN3 3BQ 30/11/2026 Learning Consultant Apply online

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Job details

Salary £35,570 - £40,444 pro rata

Contractual hours 30

Basis Flexi Hours

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.

Job category/type Human Resources, Learning and Development

Date posted 25/09/2026

Job reference REQ0001558

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Job description

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

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

At Brighton & Hove City Council, we are building a Learning Organisation where people feel connected, confident, innovative, inclusive, healthy and psychologically safe. We are looking for a Learning Consultant to help us deliver high-quality learning and development that supports our workforce and improves outcomes for residents.

Contract type: This role is permanent

Interviews to be held: 10 December 2026

There is full information about the role below and attached but, if you would like an informal discussion, please contact Elaine Sweetman, Lead Consultant by email [e-mail]

About the role

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.
• Promoting inclusive, accessible and psychologically safe learning environments.

About You

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.

Why Join the Learning & Development service?

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 fair and inclusive actions, our anti-racism strategy and the work we are doing to encourage a diverse workforce (brighton-hove.gov.uk).

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

For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us which gives details of our wellbeing support, our benefits including leave and pensions as well as details of our training and development.

Additional information

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.