Learning & Development Advisor

Together Trust Centre; Cheadle; Hybrid; GBP 31,000 - 41,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual Leave 27 days + bank holidays

Generous pension scheme

Wellbeing support and EAP

Blue Light card eligibility

Job summary

The Together Trust is seeking a Learning & Development Advisor to partner with managers and leaders to shape a strong learning culture. You will manage learning needs analysis, design and deliver development programmes, and promote accredited opportunities to support colleagues’ careers.

The role requires travel across services, a Level 5 L&D qualification, and experience with OFSTED/CQC requirements. This fixed-term maternity cover is hybrid with travel across Greater Manchester, Lancashire and

Qualifications

• Level 5 qualification in learning and development or equivalent.
• Experience conducting learning needs analysis to identify priorities.
• Knowledge of OFSTED, CQC and relevant professional bodies.

Responsibilities

• Build relationships with services, managers and leaders to identify learning needs.
• Promote accredited learning and leadership development opportunities.
• Lead learning needs analysis and use data to identify trends.
• Design, develop and deliver engaging training and development programmes.
• Deliver mandatory and wider L&D training across services.
• Coordinate training ensuring compliance and completion.
• Support a continuous learning culture across the Trust.
• Lead L&D projects delivering on time and within budget.
• Collaborate with SMEs to develop learning content and digital resources.
• Evaluate programmes and report on attendance, evaluation and impact.
• Use LMS and dashboards to monitor activity and plan future training.
• Provide guidance on learning and career opportunities.

Skills

Communication skills

Presentation skills

Relationship-building

Influencing skills

Time management

Education

Level 5 qualification in learning and development, teaching or equivalent

Tools

Word

Excel

Teams

SharePoint

OneDrive

Job description

Learning & Development Advisor Role with The Together Trust Are you an experienced Learning & Development professional looking for a role where you can make a real difference to colleague development and help shape a strong learning culture?As a Learning & Development Advisor, you will work closely with managers, senior leaders and colleagues across your allocated services to understand their learning needs and provide effective development solutions. You will play a key role in career development, leadership development, training delivery and learning needs analysis, helping colleagues build their skills and progress their careers.You will also take the lead in coordinating service-based training, maintaining training compliance, promoting learning opportunities and evaluating the impact of L&D activity.Together we make a difference, develop and learn, and support each other. Every day with us is different, but our mission remains the same:To champion the rights, needs and ambitions of the people we support - they are at the heart of everything we do. We stand by them and we work together for change.Alongside an incredible team of like-minded peers, you’ll be working behind-the-scenes to support our staff, volunteers, families, and supporters. You will be helping our work happen across the charity; enabling us to care for and champion the rights, needs and ambitions of the people we support.

Contract: Fixed term up to 14 months maternity coverLocation: Hybrid/Cheadle with expectation to travel to any of the Together Trust servicesSalary: £36,040

Key Responsibilities include but not exhaustive

• Build strong relationships with services, managers and senior leaders to identify and respond to learning needs.
• Promote career development, accredited learning and leadership development opportunities.
• Lead regular learning needs analysis and use data to identify trends and priorities.
• Design, develop and deliver engaging training and development programmes.
• Deliver elements of the Trust's mandatory and wider L&D training programmes.
• Coordinate and promote training across allocated services, ensuring compliance and completion.
• Support the development of a continuous learning culture across the Trust.
• Lead L&D projects and initiatives, ensuring they are delivered effectively, on time and within budget.
• Work with subject matter experts to develop and quality-assure learning content and digital resources.
• Evaluate learning programmes, gather feedback and use evidence to improve future provision.
• Produce regular reports and KPIs on training attendance, completion, evaluation and impact.
• Use the Learning Management System and training dashboards to monitor learning activity and future training requirements.
• Provide advice and support to colleagues and managers on learning, development and career opportunities.
• Work collaboratively with the wider L&D, OD and Communications teams to promote learning opportunities.

About You

• Level 5 qualification in learning and development, teaching or equivalent.
• Significant experience in conduction learning needs analysis processes and analysing the outcomes to determine priorities.
• Significant experience and understanding of requirements of OFSTED, CQC and relevant professional bodies.
• Advanced and demonstrable experience of ICT packages (e.g. Word, Excel, Teams, SharePoint and one drive).
• You will need excellent communication, presentation, relationship-building and influencing skills, as well as the ability to manage competing priorities and work independently.
• Pays attention to detail with high standards of presentation.
• This is a service-focused role requiring travel across Together Trust services in Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside.

Benefits

• Annual Leave 27 day holiday plus 8 days bank holidays rising to 30 after 5 years, 33 days after 10 years
• Generous pension schemeand death in service benefit, up to 7% company pension contributions initially rising with length of service and up to 6 x basic salary death in service benefit.
• Occupational sick pay and family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity and adoptive leave.
• Reward and Discount platform offering discounts at high street shops, travel, insurances etc.
• Eligibility to apply for Blue Light card
• Proud to be a real living wage employer
• Refer a friend scheme, be rewarded for recommending a friend to work with us
• Comprehensive training and development opportunities, including apprenticeship qualifications
• Long service awards including cash gifts and extra holiday.
• Promotion of Wellbeingacross the organisation including Mental Health First Aiders offering wellbeing support from trained colleague and free weekly yoga session in person or online
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme for you and adults at your home.
• Inclusive networks for colleagues to join if they’d like to (Disability &Neurodiversity Action group, Race Equality Network, Proud Together (LGBTQ+ group), Together for Men, Women Together).

Applications are very welcome from all regardless of age, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief, race, sex, sexual orientation, trans status or socio-economic background. We are committed to making reasonable adjustments for disabled people. We positively encourage applications from those with lived experience. If there is any part of your lived experience you want to keep confidential in some way please talk to the Recruitment or HR shared service teams and we will do what we can to support you.

The Together Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the people we support and expects all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Safeguarding checks will be undertaken for the successful candidate in line with our safer recruitment policy.

We reserve the right to close this advert early if a suitable candidate is identified.