Senior Learning Partner

Bupa; Salford; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company Car

Health Insurance

Free annual health assessment

25 days annual leave

Enhanced pension

Job summary

Bupa is seeking an influential Senior Learning Partner to shape the future workforce capability across Care Services. This high‑profile leadership role will partner with senior operational leaders to identify capability priorities, influence strategic decisions and ensure learning investments deliver measurable business impact.

You will lead a team of Area Trainers, combining commercial thinking with people leadership and data-driven insight to drive performance improvements across a diverse and

Qualifications

• Significant leadership and people management experience.
• Proven capability to lead teams across multiple locations.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills at senior levels.
• Strong analytical ability to interpret data and make business recommendations.
• Experience leading change or improvement initiatives in complex settings.

Responsibilities

• Partner with senior leaders to develop and deliver strategic capability plans.
• Lead and coach a team of Area Trainers across locations.
• Use data and performance trends to identify capability risks and priorities.
• Drive business improvements by challenging approaches and ensuring measurable outcomes.
• Champion innovation and modern learning approaches to enhance performance and resident outcomes.

Skills

Leadership

People management

Stakeholder management

Analytical thinking

Change management

Job description

Senior Learning Partner

Contract: Hybrid with weekly regional travel

Location: Regional

Permanent

Salary: £Competitive & Company Car

Full Time: 37.5 hours per week

We make health happen

At Bupa, we're transforming how learning and capability support our people, residents and services. We're looking for an influential Senior Learning Partner to help shape the future workforce capability agenda across Care Services.

This is a high-profile leadership role where you'll partner with senior operational leaders to identify capability priorities, influence strategic decision-making and ensure learning investment delivers measurable business impact. Leading a team of Area Trainers, you'll combine commercial thinking, people leadership and data-driven insight to drive performance improvements across a diverse and geographically dispersed portfolio.

If you're someone who enjoys challenging constructively, influencing at senior levels and turning business strategy into meaningful capability outcomes, we'd love to hear from you.

How you'll help us make health happen

• Partner with senior leaders to develop and deliver strategic capability plans that support operational performance, workforce development and organisational priorities.
• Lead, coach and develop a team of Area Trainers, ensuring resources are focused on the highest-value business needs.
• Use data, insight and performance trends to identify capability risks, opportunities and priorities, making informed recommendations to stakeholders.
• Drive business improvement by challenging ineffective approaches, influencing decision-making and ensuring learning activity delivers measurable outcomes.
• Champion innovation, continuous improvement and modern learning approaches that enhance colleague performance and resident outcomes.

Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role

• Significant leadership and people management experience, workforce capability, organisational development or a similar people-focused discipline.
• Proven experience leading and developing high-performing teams across multiple locations.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the confidence to challenge constructively and build credibility at senior leadership level.
• Strong analytical capability, able to interpret complex data, identify trends and make commercially sound business recommendations.
• Experience leading change, transformation or improvement initiatives within complex operational environments.

Benefits

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health, from mental and physical to financial, social and environmental wellbeing.

Joining Bupa in this role you'll receive the following benefits and more:

• Company Car
• Bupa Health Care options (Including Health Insurance) & Free annual health assessment
• 25 days annual leave exclusive of Bank Holidays (increasing with service)
• Enhanced pension scheme
• Life Insurance

Why Bupa?

We're a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose: helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.

We encourage all of our people to ”Be You at Bupa”. We champion diversity and understand the importance of our workforce reflecting the communities and customers we serve. That's why we particularly welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. We aim to offer an interview or assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We'll make sure you're treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process to anyone who needs them.

If you require information regarding this role in an alternative format, please email [e-mail]

Time Type: Full time

Job Area: People & HR

Locations: Home Based North c/o Bupa Place