Learning & Development Administrator for Adults
Company
Location
Truro, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
8/11/2025
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Description
Job Description
The Service & Team:
The Practice Education & Development Team (PEDT) works within the Safe and Caring Communities directorate, under Adult Social Care and Support.
The team provides specialist information, advice and guidance to Safe and Caring Communities directorate about learning and development opportunities and requirements.
The Role
The Learning and Development Administrator will work under the direction of the Learning and Development Lead, with daily line management through the Specialist Professional Development Lead within the Practice Education and Development Team and will provide comprehensive, effective administrative support to the team and other members of the service as required.
The role requires the post holder to be a first point of contact for learners and managers, primarily via email. This involves offering skilled and effective listening, exploration of requirements, support in identifying possible options, giving accurate information, signposting appropriately and providing specialist advice and guidance for individuals and organisations.
The postholder will also support our ongoing recruitment of Social Workers and Occupational Therapists. This role will help ensure effective processes are in place to enable the smooth running of interviews and feedback to candidates. They will also help align successful recruits to vacant posts supporting the lead panel member. In addition, this role will lead the development of our International Recruitment framework, learning from other Local Authorities and identified potential for joint working.
This position will be subject to a basic criminal record disclosure check.
Working Pattern
37 hours per week, Monday-Friday. Hybrid working arrangements.
Candidates Must Have
Level 2 qualification or ability to demonstrate considerable relevant experience in the appropriate discipline
Significant experience in an administration role
Competent in use of Microsoft applications i.e. Excel and Word
Please read the role profile for the full details of this role attached below in this advert
What You’ll Get In Return
Cornwall Council’s ambition is to be an employer of choice, a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract, motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.
Our Core Employee Rewards And Benefits Include
Please note, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role
The full role profile is attached here
We recommend saving a copy of this to refer to if you are invited to an interview.
For more information or an informal chat about the role please contact Kerrie Edwards - [email protected]
Application Process
Please attach a supporting statement to your application, you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. Remember to demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points marked as ‘Application’ on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here – The application process .
Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted, please contact [email protected] if you have any queries or require assistance with your application.
Existing employees must apply using their Cornwall Council email address through the Opportunity Marketplace on Oracle.
The Service & Team:
The Practice Education & Development Team (PEDT) works within the Safe and Caring Communities directorate, under Adult Social Care and Support.
The team provides specialist information, advice and guidance to Safe and Caring Communities directorate about learning and development opportunities and requirements.
The Role
The Learning and Development Administrator will work under the direction of the Learning and Development Lead, with daily line management through the Specialist Professional Development Lead within the Practice Education and Development Team and will provide comprehensive, effective administrative support to the team and other members of the service as required.
The role requires the post holder to be a first point of contact for learners and managers, primarily via email. This involves offering skilled and effective listening, exploration of requirements, support in identifying possible options, giving accurate information, signposting appropriately and providing specialist advice and guidance for individuals and organisations.
The postholder will also support our ongoing recruitment of Social Workers and Occupational Therapists. This role will help ensure effective processes are in place to enable the smooth running of interviews and feedback to candidates. They will also help align successful recruits to vacant posts supporting the lead panel member. In addition, this role will lead the development of our International Recruitment framework, learning from other Local Authorities and identified potential for joint working.
This position will be subject to a basic criminal record disclosure check.
Working Pattern
37 hours per week, Monday-Friday. Hybrid working arrangements.
Candidates Must Have
Level 2 qualification or ability to demonstrate considerable relevant experience in the appropriate discipline
Significant experience in an administration role
Competent in use of Microsoft applications i.e. Excel and Word
Please read the role profile for the full details of this role attached below in this advert
What You’ll Get In Return
Cornwall Council’s ambition is to be an employer of choice, a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract, motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.
Our Core Employee Rewards And Benefits Include
- a competitive salary.
- a defined benefit pension scheme, based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions
- a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave.
- A national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme
- Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services.
Please note, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role
The full role profile is attached here
We recommend saving a copy of this to refer to if you are invited to an interview.
For more information or an informal chat about the role please contact Kerrie Edwards - [email protected]
Application Process
Please attach a supporting statement to your application, you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. Remember to demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points marked as ‘Application’ on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here – The application process .
Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted, please contact [email protected] if you have any queries or require assistance with your application.
Existing employees must apply using their Cornwall Council email address through the Opportunity Marketplace on Oracle.
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