Learning Lead - Learning Disability. 35 hours per week, Home Based Working, Northwest England

Reports to: Operational Training Manager

Responsible for: Learning Partners x3

 Key relationships: Learning & OD Team, People & OD Team, Operations

Job Purpose:

To manage and deliver a professional learning and organisational development service that contributes to the ongoing development of our people and drives both individual and business performance.

Works closely with key managers across all areas of AFG (Mental Health, Learning Disability and Support Functions) to shape future development activity and evaluates success. Ensures that all development work and activity is aligned to our People and Organisational Development strategy.

 Key Accountabilities:

• With a business partnering approach, work with key managers to identify individual and collective training needs using a robust learning needs analysis methodology.
• Lead the ongoing development and coordination of a local learning framework aligned to the business workforce plan to ensure there are sufficient individuals, skill levels and experience requirements in place to meet current and future service demands.
• Support and manage the local delivery of OD and change management strategies, processes and interventions that support AFG’s ambition to be a high performing organisation.
• Influence our learning culture to promote self-learning, personal mastery, continuous improvement and reflective practice. 
• Manage and support the delivery of all Learning Disability training interventions through the Learning Partners.
• Design, develop and deliver training solutions that meet business needs through a wide variety of training methods.
• Review and look to optimise existing training processes for efficiency.
• Produce clear evaluation reports using qualitative and quantitative data for all training programmes and other specific development work undertaken.
• Audit and assess opportunities and risks relating to levels of workforce competence and practice with a view to taking local action to continually improve.
• Facilitate improvements in standards of professional and regulatory practice by contributing to the ongoing development, improvement and implementation of policy and practice changes.
• Line manage, coach and develop the Learning Partner team.
• Utilise and manage external relationships, such as training providers, to develop and deliver training requirements.
• Work within the agreed L&OD budget and manage spend against your allocated budget items during the year.
• Provide 1:1 coaching and ongoing support following requests from key customers.
• Liaise with external training providers to source specific business requests.
• Keep up to date with the latest training trends, developments, legislation and best practices.
• Product Owners who support organisational development projects where there is likely to be an impact on the target customer population.
• Support the delivery of specific development interventions for first line managers and above across AFG as agreed with the Learning and Organisational Development Manager.
• Keep abreast of developments and best practice within the training & development field and health & social care sector to enhance and maintain the reputation of the Learning & OD team.
• Detailed knowledge of policies applicable to area of work and working knowledge of all relevant other policies.
• To be flexible in order to both deliver training and support to the multiple sites within the Learning Disability Division of AFG.
• To carry out any other training related duties / work as requested. 

We’re Alternative Futures Group, a health and social care charity providing specialist support for people with a learning disability or mental health condition.

We’re proud to have been positively changing lives and enabling people to achieve amazing outcomes for over 30 years.

We have a vision to create a world where amazing people do amazing things every day. Our skilled and experienced teams work with every person we support to create a personalised, outcome-focused plans to achieve their aspirations.

As a ‘values based’ employer, the people that work for us genuinely care about the people they support, and we are seeking likeminded people to join our team.  If you are passionate about working in Health and Social Care and have a real desire to make a positive difference to the lives of the people we support then we would love to hear from you.

At AFG we also recognise the contribution and value that our staff make.  We would not be able to provide the life changing support that we do without people like you!

In return for your contribution we will support you throughout your career and we provide a wide range of employee benefits, career development and lifestyle support services to ensure that you too feel supported, fulfilled and valued from day one of your employment with us.