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Workforce Development Officer - Adults Direct Care Services
| Posting date: | 03 December 2024 |
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| Salary: | £21,354 to £22,355 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 02 January 2025 |
| Location: | Bridgend, CF31 4WB |
| Company: | Bridgend County Borough Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 17058_CBC |
Summary
Workforce Development Officer - Adults Direct Care Services
Job description
18.5 hours per week
Make a difference every day as a Workforce Development Officer in Bridgend County Borough Council. Join a friendly team of experienced, motivated, and proactive Workforce Development Officers working across the Adults and Childrens Social Care contributing to promoting a culture of continuing professional development.
You will be driving and supporting the delivery of our learning and development offer for the Adult Direct Care workforce across the borough of Bridgend. You will work in collaboration with managers across internal and external adult social care services to ensure workforce development is delivering responsively to support the achievement of strength-based outcomes for individuals and carers who access care and support services.
You'll take a strategic approach to training, assessing the skills and knowledge across organisations and identify what training is needed to grow and retain these skills. You will commission training alongside designing and facilitating training yourself. You will evaluate training and development programmes and prepare reports for management in areas such as usage, engagement, and performance. You will need a flexible approach to work and an understanding of how diversity and inclusion influences the planning and delivery of training.
If you have experience of working in social care, health, or education, and have been involved in delivering workforce development solutions. Alongside an inclusive people orientated approach, being enthusiastic and positive about helping others develop to achieve their potential, we would leave to hear from you.
Protecting children, young people or adults at risk is a core responsibility of all council employees.
Criminal records check by the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) is a requirement for this post.
A valid driving licence is requirement for this post.
The council’s Hybrid Working Policy applies to this post. This provides a framework for establishing how you will undertake working hours between your home and the office.
Closing Date: 18 December 2024
Shortlisting Date: 8 January 2025
Interview Date: 22 January 2025
Benefits to working at Bridgend County Borough Council
Job Description & Person Specification
Job description
18.5 hours per week
Make a difference every day as a Workforce Development Officer in Bridgend County Borough Council. Join a friendly team of experienced, motivated, and proactive Workforce Development Officers working across the Adults and Childrens Social Care contributing to promoting a culture of continuing professional development.
You will be driving and supporting the delivery of our learning and development offer for the Adult Direct Care workforce across the borough of Bridgend. You will work in collaboration with managers across internal and external adult social care services to ensure workforce development is delivering responsively to support the achievement of strength-based outcomes for individuals and carers who access care and support services.
You'll take a strategic approach to training, assessing the skills and knowledge across organisations and identify what training is needed to grow and retain these skills. You will commission training alongside designing and facilitating training yourself. You will evaluate training and development programmes and prepare reports for management in areas such as usage, engagement, and performance. You will need a flexible approach to work and an understanding of how diversity and inclusion influences the planning and delivery of training.
If you have experience of working in social care, health, or education, and have been involved in delivering workforce development solutions. Alongside an inclusive people orientated approach, being enthusiastic and positive about helping others develop to achieve their potential, we would leave to hear from you.
Protecting children, young people or adults at risk is a core responsibility of all council employees.
Criminal records check by the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) is a requirement for this post.
A valid driving licence is requirement for this post.
The council’s Hybrid Working Policy applies to this post. This provides a framework for establishing how you will undertake working hours between your home and the office.
Closing Date: 18 December 2024
Shortlisting Date: 8 January 2025
Interview Date: 22 January 2025
Benefits to working at Bridgend County Borough Council
Job Description & Person Specification
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