Learning & Development Advisor
| Posting date: | 10 March 2025 |
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| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 09 April 2025 |
| Location: | Leicester, LE3 8RA |
| Company: | Leicestershire County Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 4826 |
Summary
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: County Hall Glenfield Leicester LE3 8RA
Worker Category: Hybrid Worker
Salary: £38,700 - £41,373 per annum (pro-rata for part time)
Working Hours: 18.5 hours Weds Thurs Fri
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 17th March 2025
Interview Date(s): 17th April 2025
Are you looking for a rewarding career where you can make a difference? Do you possess a creative flair and you can make learning enjoyable and memorable??
Do you want a job where no two days are the same? Then we want you to apply
About the Role
- To provide a comprehensive Learning and Organisation Development service to a range of customers, including our internal/external stakeholders and partners, ensuring that the service provided is focused on delivering innovative business solutions.
- The role is focussed on the design and the delivery of of the Adults ASYE programme
- This is a Learning and Development Adviser’s post for services provided to the Adult social care sector.
- Post holders will, when required, be asked to work flexibly across the different topics/areas and teams within the Corporate Learning & Development Service ensuring that resources are deployed effectively in order to respond to service priorities and to facilitate professional development.
- You will be providing sound and professional high level learning and organisation development activities and advice and support as required e.g.
- Developing formal and informal approaches and methods of learning, design, delivery and evaluation of learning and organisation development activities, coaching, advice, support,
- To support the achievement of the statutory and non statutory workforce development responsibilities, including assisting in the delivery of departmental Workforce Development Plans to meet the L & D needs of managers, staff and partners
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About You
To apply for this post, you must:
- You will be expected to have a sound understanding of the ASYE framework, person centred approaches as well as an understanding of the needs of the social care workforce and the legislative framework
- Understanding of DoLS
- A sound knowledge of Practice Education
- You will have had experience within adults services at practitioner level
- You will have a relevant degree or professional qualification in social care or significant operational experience
The Interview process
You will be interviewed by a panel and you will be required to deliver a presentation
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.
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Sue Harrison
Senior Learning & Development Advisor
Telephone: 0116 305 6083
Email: sue.harrison@leics.gov.uk
How to Apply
Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.
To apply for this job, please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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