Learning and Development Adviser

Learning and Development Adviser
Reference: OCT
Location: Flexible in UK
Salary: £29,200.00 – £31,347.00 per annum
Hours: Part time, 30 hours per week
Contract: 6 months fixed term
Benefits: Pension Scheme, Life Assurance Scheme, 26 days’ Annual Leave

The Learning & Organisational Development Team is responsible for building, sourcing, and delivering learning opportunities to their people in order to help them succeed. The team is made up of Learning and Organisational Development professionals who collaborate to build the skills, capabilities, and confidence of the workforce to enable a thriving culture.

Due to an internal seconded promotion, they are now looking to recruit a Learning & Development Adviser to develop and deliver training interventions, primarily peer support workshops, to support managers in developing their people manager skills. This role would potentially suit an HR Generalist or experienced People Manager who has experience in leading group-coaching or facilitation, or a coach or facilitator with a good understanding of HR policy and procedures.

About the role:

The post holder will design and facilitate a range of learning opportunities, including workshops, action learning sets and peer support sessions. The topics of these sessions will be people management skills and applying HR policy into practice.

Examples include:

• Having supportive conversations around performance and under performance
• Dealing with poor conduct/behaviours
• Having supportive absence conversations that align with absence policies
• Supporting the mental health and well-being of their teams
• Balancing the individual and organisational needs in practice
• Conversations with team members to tackle informal grievances to prevent escalation
• Taking ownership of uncomfortable situations

Your role will be to:

Design and facilitate workshops and interventions. These workshops will be discussion-based, focusing on managers’ experiences of putting HR policy into practice. Through peer support and expert guidance from HR colleagues, you will ensure the learners are developing their skills and understanding of putting policy into practice.

• Market these workshops – Alongside other L&OD colleagues, you will raise the visibility of these opportunities to ensure good uptake throughout the management community.
• Evaluate – Through evaluation strategies, you will identify the impact of these workshops and adjust them where necessary based on that feedback. You will provide reports on progress with the target audience.
• You will also occasionally be involved in 1:1 support, working with managers to understand their situation/challenge and using your coaching skills, specialist guidance, and consultancy approaches to support them and help them move forward.
• You will work closely with their HR (Human Resources) colleagues on cases such as capability, probation, grievances, investigations, and conflict.
• Travel around the UK will be essential. Approx. once a month.

Essentials:

• Good understanding of employee relations processes, being able to demonstrate knowledge of ACAS best practices and knowledge of how managers can provide support and direction to enable teams and individuals to thrive.
• Able to facilitate a variety of learning events (from workshops, peer support sessions, and action learning sets)
• Experience in facilitated conversations.
• Experience in working with managers to support HR cases (such as capability, conduct, grievances, absence management and managing investigations)
• Experience in leading on all elements of the learning design cycle. From the learning needs analysis to the evaluation of a learning intervention
• Able to create a blend of learning products that are accessible equitable, and inclusive to suit a variety of learning styles and preferences.

Desirables:

• Knowledge of workplace mediation
• Experience in creating and designing engaging self-learning products (such as topic guides, pocketbooks, workbooks, worksheets, e-learning, and videos)
• Experience of supporting managers working with staff and volunteers together. If you are passionate about management development, enjoy working with manager cohorts to increase confidence and are looking to join their supportive and creative team to bring the latest best practice to their work programme, they would love to hear from you.

Additional Information

They are looking for someone who would be able to start as soon as possible.

Closing date: 23:59, Sunday 3rd November 2024

Interested?

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This role is not eligible for UK Visa Sponsorship – the successful applicant will need to have a pre-existing Right to Work in the UK in order to be offered an employment contract.

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