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Job Title: Training and Professional Development Lead

Contract: Agency contract, 3 months, part time
Location: Hereford City, Ross on Wye and Leominster (please feel free to specify your preference)
Hours: 18 Hours
Salary: £46,142- £50,269 Pro rata
Closing date: 2nd January 2025

Interview: Face to Face Panel

Ignite Your Career as a Training and Professional Development Lead!

We're looking for a dynamic and visionary Training and Professional Development Lead to drive an era of unparalleled growth and skill enhancement within our organisation. This role is your platform to:

• Needs Assessment: Become our skill-gap detection expert, identifying opportunities for growth and improvement.
• Strategy & Design: Innovate and create cohesive, cutting-edge learning strategies and materials that elevate our workforce's performance to new heights.
• Implementation & Oversight: Mastermind the logistics, budgets, and impactful delivery of our next-generation training programs.
• Effectiveness Tracking: Measure our success and ensure our initiatives are not just good, but transformative, fostering continuous improvement and goal attainment.

You're a passionate professional ready to make a significant impact. You bring to the table:

• A solid background in Social Care or Health, backed by a qualifying degree.
• Deep expertise in current legislation, particularly the Care Act.
• A profound understanding of the Adult Social Care sector, its regulations, best practices, and legislative frameworks, including the ASYE programme and Apprenticeships.
• Exceptional collaboration skills, adept at building powerful partnerships with external agencies.
• Proven experience in budget management, ensuring cost-effectiveness without sacrificing quality.
• A spirit of adventure and adaptability, ready for hybrid working and eager to explore our breathtakingly vibrant county.
• Experience in confidently leading and managing staff.

To arrange an informal discussion about the role with Kiran Devi, Principal Social Worker, please contact

[email protected]

• A competitive salary, generous holiday entitlement, and access to our contributory pension and staff benefits scheme, which includes:
• Starting Salary of £46,142- £50,269 pro rata
• Relocation Payment Relocation package of up to £5,000 available
• Pension Scheme Enrolment in the Local Government (LGPS)
• Career progression: clear pathways to progress
• Annual Leave: 31 days' annual leave (pro rata) plus bank holidays. You can also purchase an additional 10 days per annum with line manager approval.
• Flexible working: flexi-time, job-share, part-time hours and, in some instances, home working
• Employee Assistance Programme: 24/7 access to support and counselling
• Payment of professional membership fees
• Pick your perks – our benefits include access to a range of retail, leisure, holiday and health benefits. This includes savings, cash back and discounts.

You will probably have heard a lot about how beautiful it is in terms of countryside and open spaces (and it is!) but there is so much more going on here, including world-class cultural assets like the Mappa Mundi, vibrant theatres and a thriving food and drink sector.

One of Herefordshire's biggest assets is the strong and diverse communities. Our Talk Community approach brings that together supporting people to help themselves, encouraging them to help their communities and identifying how communities can help individuals. Our ambitious transformation programme aims to further build on this to offer an all-age approach. We're excited about the potential of what we can achieve for the benefit of all residents of Herefordshire, stronger together and building brighter futures.

To find out more about what it's like to live, work and thrive at Herefordshire Council please visit our dedicated recruitment website: www.spiritofherefordshire.com.

Herefordshire Council is committed to strengthening a diverse and inclusive work environment which reflects the communities of Herefordshire. If you are enthusiastic about this opportunity and want to make a difference, we encourage you to consider an application or to get in contact, you may be the perfect fit we're seeking!

Our recruitment process runs in partnership with Hoople Resourcing. If you require any reasonable adjustments or alternative methods for the online application process, please contact the resourcing team by email: [email protected].

Employee Network Groups play an important role in strengthening the voices of employees at Herefordshire Council. Embedded in the Council's values is a commitment to listen to people's views and needs.

Employee Network Groups are a collective of colleagues who often share identities, life experiences or cultures and who come together to initiate positive change in their work place. Our groups include: Black and Asian Staff Networking Group, LGBTQ+, Parents & Carers, Climate and Nature Emergency, Diff-abilities and Armed Forces/ Veterans. For more information on our Employee Network Groups please click here.

To apply for a position, please upload an up-to-date CV and a supporting statement demonstrating your experience, skills and abilities for the role. If you are successfully shortlisted, Hoople Resourcing will contact you via email to arrange your interview and/or assessment. They will confirm the date, time and location of your interview, so please keep an eye on your email inbox. Good luck, we're looking forward to meeting you!

Community Wellbeing is connecting and belonging to the place where you live, feeling safe and having pride in your community.

All requests for flexible working arrangements and reasonable adjustments will be considered.

• Those who indicate that they have a disability. This is part of our commitment to the "Disability Confident" scheme;
• Those who indicate in their supporting statement that they are an Armed Forces Veteran or Reservist. This is part of our pledge to support the Armed Forces Covenant;
• Those who indicate in their supporting statement that they are a Herefordshire care leaver. This is part of our commitment to supporting young people leaving our care.

• We will deliver better support to our most vulnerable children and their families, develop stronger relationships with partners across the region, and beyond. Therefore, we take our commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults seriously and expect all of our staff, visitors and volunteers to share in this commitment.

We will deliver better support to our most vulnerable children and their families, develop stronger relationships with partners across the region, and beyond. Therefore, we take our commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults seriously and expect all of our staff, visitors and volunteers to share in this commitment.

Herefordshire Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children & young people and vulnerable adults. If you are offered this position, it will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service enhanced check and further pre-employment checks.