Learning and Development Specialist

What makes Community Integrated Care a great place to work:

Community Integrated Care is currently seeking a Learning and Development Specialist to join the People team in our North Scotland region encompassing Aberdeenshire and Moray on a Part-time, Permanent basis.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary: £ 24,000 – £26,000 per annum + £3,000 annual car allowance (Pro rata)
• Flexibility! 30 hours per week – You can work your hours over 4 days and enjoy a long weekend, or work over 5 days to accommodate your other commitments. Y ou will need to be available to work from our Glasgow office when required and travel to services in the region, but otherwise you can work from home or a flex between the two.
• Work for a multi award-winning Charity that invests all it profits right back into the people we support, our workforce and our local communities
• Managed by supportive leaders
• Pension Scheme
• No uniform – we wear our casual clothes
• We will pay for your DBS / PVG
• Shopping Discounts Scheme
• Ongoing continued professional development and progression opportunities
• Recommend a Friend Bonus scheme
• Financial Hardship Fund
• Investment in your wellbeing

Community Integrated Care is one of the UK’s largest health and social care charities. We work hard to enriching the lives of people with many different care needs. It’s exciting and rewarding work, and we’re full of pride and passion for what we do.

Since the early days, we’ve grown to provide many innovative and bespoke care services to thousands of people across England and Scotland. We want to provide support based on the principles of choice, dignity and respect. This resonates in our vision of ‘Your Life, Your Choice’ and our strategy ‘Best Lives Possible’.

We have strong values and we’re proud to pioneer new ways of delivering social care to stand out in our sector. In the past two years, we have won or made the shortlist for over 100 national and regional awards!

We are also focused on our people. Our Support Workers are dedicated and passionate about going ‘the extra mile’ for the people we support and in return, we go the extra mile for them by investing in pay, recognition, wellbeing and continued professional and personal development. We will provide you with all the training, support and personal protective equipment you need in your role and will help you develop, should you decide you want to develop your career with us.

Who you’ll be supporting & more about the role:

This important role deliver s high quality and engaging training to give our front-line colleagues the skills and knowledge they need to be brilliant in their roles, ensuring the safety and wellbeing of the people we support and enabling them to lead the best life possible.

Day to Day

Y Ou’ll Work With The Regional People Team To Support The Delivery Of Great Learning – Either Face To Face Or Virtually Across The Region . Day To Day You’ll Be

• Delivering brilliant training sessions on a range of subjects – from first aid, and safeguarding , to how to administer medication, or positive behavioural support techniques .
• Work ing with our bespoke digital learning platform “Dare to Learn”
• Run ning reports and us ing information to spot trends
• Forecasting needs and scheduling courses
• Working with local leaders to ensure their team ’ s learning needs are met

Your Values

Our Ideal Candidate

• You are brilliant at communicating – you find it easy to explain things in a way that is easy for others to understand
• People might say you tell a great story – you’re brilliant at bringing subjects to life with great anecdotes, making topics relatable to your audience
• You pick up systems quickly – it never takes you long to learn a new app, programme, or website.
• You love working with people – you are confident talking to a group , leading discussions, and trying to get the best from people
• You love being in charge of your own diary and setting your own schedule .
• You are looking for variety – some days delivering from your desk and others travelling and delivering training face to face

Skills And Experience

• You’ll have extensive on-the-job experience leading and facilitating brilliant training sessions or a NVQ L3 in Health and Social Care
• A teaching qualification, train the trainer certificate, or recognised assessor award would be beneficial.
• You’ll have brilliant IT skills
• You’ l l need a full UK driving licence to travel for this role

Values

Naturally it is important too that you share our company values – We Include; We Deliver; We Aspire; We Respect; We Enable, which are at the heart of everything we do and ensure that we deliver high quality, consistent care and support.

Our values are important to us, so we look for people with:

• Patience
• Empathy, compassion and sensitivity to others
• A strong work ethic
• Reliability
• Honesty
• Determination
• A problem solver
• Resilience

If you have read this advert and feel like it’s exactly the role and organisation you’re looking for, please click ‘Apply’ to take you through to our short application form.

A Place I belong

Here at Community Integrated Care we aim to be a warm, welcoming and inclusive employer, where all colleagues feel they belong. We want to an organisation that is truly fair and equal to all – where individual diversity is valued, unique characteristics celebrated and everyone feels able to bring their true selves to work.

By encouraging and embracing a range of diverse backgrounds, experiences, capabilities and viewpoints, we will build a stronger, richer, more vibrant workforce, which reflects the people we support, and the communities in which we work. It helps us make better decisions, bring fresh ideas and become a true provider and employer of choice.

We have a really clear plan to achieve this called A Place I Belong. This publicly sets out the promises we’ve made to achieving this vision and how we will hold ourselves to account to getting there. You can read more about this by clicking here.

Please note, If you are interested in this role, we welcome your application as soon as possible! Depending on the volume of applications received, the vacancy may be closed before the expected advertising end date.

We wish you the very best of luck in your application to joining our charity. Should you require any adjustments during the recruitment process, please feel free to contact [email protected]

Community Integrated Care is an Equal Opportunities and Disability Confident employer.