Social Care Training Officer

Salary

Grade 7 - £32,061 £35,412

Contractual hours

37

Basis

Open Ended

Job category/type

Human Resources, Learning & Development

Job reference

REQAA6668

Are you passionate about empowering and supporting others through learning? Do you have experience in social care and a talent for facilitating learning opportunities and engaging training experiences?

As a social care training officer, you will play a vital role in providing a range of development and commissioned training and support activities for the social care workforce to meet requirements set out in the Social Services & Wellbeing Act (Wales) 2014.

You will be responsible for organising, designing and commissioning training and development for staff and students on qualifying and post-qualifying programmes, ensuring statutory requirements and workforce learning needs are met across the social care sector.

Are you a people person? Do you enjoy collaborating with others? In this role you will work alongside schools, local colleges, universities, partner agencies and other stakeholders to identify training opportunities and to promote careers in social care. Please refer to the job description above for more details on this vacancy and the person specification. Employment Checks

This post is subject to a DBS disclosure check.

Where it is appropriate for your role and responsibility, the personal information we have collected from you will be shared with Cifas who will use it to prevent fraud, other unlawful or dishonest conduct, malpractice, and other seriously improper conduct. If any of these are detected you could be refused certain services or employment. Your personal information will also be used to verify your identity. Further details of how your information will be used by us and Cifas, and your data protection rights, can be found by visiting https://www.cifas.org.uk/fpn.

Applicants should ensure they have the right to work in the UK before applying for a vacancy. Please note that at this point, Pembrokeshire County Council is not accepting applicants who require a Skilled Worker visa as a prerequisite to a right to work in the UK. Applicants should ensure they have the right to work in the UK before applying for a vacancy. Safeguarding

Safeguarding and protecting children and adults at risk is a high priority for Pembrokeshire County Council. We aim to support vulnerable children and adults at risk to ensure they are as safe as they can possibly be. We are committed to ensuring their safety and will take action to safeguard their well-being. The Councils Corporate Safeguarding Policy provides a framework for every member of staff and Service within the Council, setting out responsibilities in relation to safeguarding and protecting children and adults at risk as well as the methods by which the Council will be assured that it is fulfilling its duties.

This policy applies to all Council employees and workforce, councillors, volunteers and also service providers that are commissioned by the Council. Safeguarding is everyone's business whether they work for, or on behalf of, the Council.

Support & Additional Info

• Please contact the HR Systems Team as early as possible if you're unable to apply online by emailing .
• Please contact the Recruitment Team if you have any queries relating to this vacancy by emailing .
• Local Government Employees on National Joint Council (NJC) terms are subject to national pay bargaining; all salaries currently stated in our adverts are as 01/04/2025.
• Please note, we have a legal obligation to consider employees for suitable alternative employment if their posts are at risk; therefore prior consideration will be given to existing employees who meet the person specification and are registered on our redeployment pool.
  
  

Welsh language skills are desirable. Applications may be submitted in Welsh and will not be treated less favourably than applications submitted in English.

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