Learning and Development Manager | North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 17 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £47,810 - £54,710 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 August 2025 |
| Location: | Bolton, BL1 5DD |
| Company: | North West Ambulance Service |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7355245/242-4749 |
Summary
Base: Ladybridge Hall, Bolton, with the opportunity for some agile working.
There will be a requirement to travel across our trust footprint (North west wide)
Band: 7
Fixed term contract for 18 months - 37.5 hours per week
Join Us as a Learning & Development Manager – Enabling people to be at their best!
Are you passionate about people, leadership, and unlocking potential? Do you thrive in a dynamic environment where no two days are the same? Do you love to facilitate great learning experiences? We're looking for aLearning & Development Managerto help us build a brilliant, compassionate, and forward-thinking NHS workforce.
Our ideal candidate will hold a recognised and relevant learning qualification. You will have knowledge of current issues and future trends in learning. You will have demonstratable experience of delivering high-quality learning and facilitation with the ability and drive to develop and deliver improvement to learning and strategies that support this. You will have developed strength in supporting teams and demonstrable experience of embedding a learning culture across organisations.
In this exciting role, you’ll:
• Be a trusted advisor to managers and staff on all things learning and development.
• Lead inspiring training and development initiatives that bring our BeThinkDo leadership model to life: Be Think Do - NWAS - North West Ambulance Service
• Deliver engaging, impactful learning experiences—from engaging training delivery, to team building.
• Support Trust-wide transformation by supporting the delivery of our People strategies and projects
You’ll need to bring:
• Training/ learning/ facilitation delivery skills
• Coaching experience and a passion for people development
• Outstanding communication and influencing skills
• Knowledge of L&OD best practices
• The drive to lead projects and shape future-ready team
This is your chance to make a real impact across the organisation—empowering individuals, enhancing services, helping to shape a positive culture!
You will drive the continuous professional development of our staff through the identification and provision of learning and development opportunities. You will actively support a culture of learning and personalised, impactful development.
Apply now and help us create a better future for our people and our patients.
North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust provides 24 hour, 365 days a year accident and emergency services to those in need of emergency medical treatment and transport.
Our highly skilled staff provide life-saving care to patients in the community and take people to hospital or a place of care if needed.
We also provide non-emergency patient transport services for those patients who require non-emergency transport to and from hospital and who are unable to travel unaided because of their medical condition or clinical need.
Alongside the other emergency services, we also work to ensure the safety of the public and treatment of patients in the event of a major incident.
We also deliver the NHS 111 service in the North West. NHS 111 replaced NHS Direct in 2013. This service was introduced to make it easier for people to access local NHS healthcare services in England. It provides non-emergency medical help fast, and is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Please ensure you have read the full Job Description and Person Specification before applying for this role.
This advert will close onMonday 4thAugust 2025.
Please note, the Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy early if a large number of applications are received.
NWAS is committed to employing compassionate, inclusive adaptive leaders. We offer a dynamic recruitment process, enabling applicants to work together, be at their best to make a difference, in line with our Trust values and leadership philosophy. Applicants are requested to be available on2ndSeptember 2025for the selection process.
As part of the recruitment process, if you are successfully shortlisted, you will be invited to take part in a Be Think Do Assessment Centre. This may include completion of group activities, delivering a micro teach or similar, followed by a professional discussion.
The dates of these elements are as follows:
· Notification of final shortlisting by15thAugust 2025.
· Assessment centre will take place on2ndSeptember 2025.
This advert closes on Monday 4 Aug 2025