Learning Specialist

**Job Title**:Learning Specialist - Social Care Trainer

**Hours**:Part time
- 22.5

**Location**:Homebased with some travel to location in North West

**Salary**:up to £31,272 pro-rata (£18,763.20)

**About the role**:
To identify and deliver effective organisational development interventions that drives and supports a competent and capable workforce to maintain mandatory training targets.

**You will be**:

- Working with local stakeholders to ensure that any specific OE needs are identified, assessed and potentially delivered so that compliance levels can be met.
- Working with local stakeholders to address any specific issues around colleague attendance on programmes, including engagement and provision of appropriate equipment
- Providing post-delivery support and evaluation, to ensure delegates are effectively transferring learning into the workplace and delivering a safe and competence service to our customers
- Evaluating and maintaining OE interventions to ensure they remain relevant and up to date and reflect changes both within the business and sector as well as new thinking in L&D practice

**About you**:
**You will have**
- Experience of the full learning cycle (training needs analysis, design, delivery and evaluation)
- Worked in a person centred/customer focused environment.
- Experience of training delivery to a diverse and multi skilled workforce
- A proven track record in implementing blended learning techniques
- Teacher/trainer qualification in the further education and skills sector or equivalent experience
- Professional qualification e.g. CIPD, CMI, ILM desirable but not essential
- Health and Social Care qualification and experience

Hundreds of talented professionals with a range of specialist skills and experience based in our Bradford and London offices make up our Support Services. While we all do very different things, we work towards the same goal of improving the lives of the older people who live with us.

**Anchor - a great place to work**

Anchor is England’s largest not-for-profit providers of care and housing for older people. Our heartfelt ambition is to transform housing and care so everyone can have a home where they love living in later life.

We’re not-for-profit which means every penny we make or save is invested in the people who live with us, the places they live and the people who work here. That means a better standard of care and customer service, better wages, more investment in training and development and improved facilities.

**A rewarding environment**

From health and happiness to finance and your career, we’ll give you all the support you need.

**Health & happiness**
- Gym, fitness and wellbeing discounts
- Mental health support
- Flexible working options

**Finance**
- Pension plan - contribute between 4% and 8% and we’ll match it or better
- Quick and easy pension transfer service
- Savings and financial advice, loans, free life assurance
- Discounts on shopping, holidays, phones, technology and more

**Career**
- Ongoing personal and professional development programme
- Leadership Pathways online learning resources
- Career progression and promotion opportunities

To see our full range of benefits, check out our dedicated rewards website

**Celebrating diversity, celebrating you**

Anchor is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We aim to celebrate diversity and inclusion in all that we do, as we know that the more diverse our colleagues are, the better care and support we can give to our residents and each other.

We are proud to have an LGBT+ group for our residents, and also Disability, LGBT+ and race and ethnicity colleague networks. These work to celebrate diversity, address concerns, review policy and practice and empower their members. We also have an Inclusive Ambassador network to allow all colleagues to be part of promoting diversity and to be an ally to others.

We are a member of Inclusive Employers, a Stonewall Diversity Champion and a signatory to the Care Leaver Covenant and HouseProud Pledge schemes.