Learning and Development Advisor

Would you like to join a dynamic learning and development service where you can share your skills and knowledge with others, and help develop a confident workforce in Leicestershire County Council?

About the Role

As Learning and Development Advisor, you will be:

• Working with the Adults & Communities department to provide sound and professional learning and development advice, guidance and opportunities, including formal and informal approaches and methods of learning, design, delivery and evaluation of learning and development activities, coaching, advice and support.
• Keeping up-to-date with changes in adult social care and local authority legislation, case law and best practice and using this to inform effective, high-quality learning and development activities.
• Providing learning and development activities on a range of policies, procedures and practices to customers across the County Council, including partner organisations.
• Ensuring that a flexible approach is taken to deliver an effective, blended learning offer which maximises the use of technology (including effective utilisation of the Leicestershire Learning Hub for planning, organising and delivering learning and development solutions) and makes the best return on investment and use of skills when deciding to directly deliver or commission services.

About You

To apply for this post, you must:

• Have a relevant degree or professional/management qualification (eg, Social Work qualification, Registered Manager award) OR relevant and significant operational experience at a level equivalent to the above qualification.
• Have demonstrable experience of having successfully delivered learning and development within a complex organisation, and specifically within the social care sector, on time and within budget.
• Have experience in providing learning and development advice to managers on learning and development issues.
• Manage your time effectively, make adjustments to your own practice and process to deliver improved results, and take measured risks and responsibility for outcomes
• Be able to work as part of a project team, or on your own, and develop good and appropriate relationships with all partners
• Have knowledge of relevant adult social care and local authority legislation
• Be able to design, construct, structure and deliver training to meet a variety of needs, delivered face-to-face, online or in a blended format.

You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.

In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.

Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.

For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:

Madeleine McNeil, Senior Learning & Development Advisor

Telephone: 0116 3056400

Email: [email protected]