Senior Learning & Development Officer - GLA12553
Job Description
Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership (GCHSCP) have a Senior Learning and Development Officer (Families for Children.
Applications are welcome from individuals who have a commitment to The Promise and to supporting the development and delivery of learning and training opportunities across Families for Children. This training is delivered to foster carers/ adopters and staff from across children’s services in line with The Promise, service priorities, statutory and organisational requirements.Design and deliver bespoke training and development inputs for carers and adopters.
The post-holder will utilise existing training and development resources to plan and deliver training and development activities.
The post holder will be committed to of nurture and trauma informed practices to best meet the needs of our children, young people, and their care giver families. Work with people with lived experience to ensure their views and aspirations are reflected in service development and learning interventions is also a key part of the role.
The post-holder will facilitate a range of staff learning and development opportunities, support the development of the services capacity to facilitate practice learning sessions, support the development of supervision/coaching or reflective practice sessions to enhance the capacity of the staff to support care giver families to deliver nurture and trauma informed care.
The post-holder will contribute to the creation and delivery and of online learning and development courses, support the facilitation of carer support groups and contribute to local, national and service wide practice development forums
Applicants must evidence: sound articulation skills; influencing and networking skills, an ability to involve people with experience in the design of learning interventions; organisational and administrative skills.
The post holder will be qualified to SCQF Level 9 with a relevant qualification in Social Care, Occupational Therapy, Nursing, Education or Speech and Language Therapy.
These posts are excepted under Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exclusions and Exceptions) (Scotland) Order 2013 (as amended).
Should you wish further information, please contact Liz Simpson on 07387050915 or by email Liz.Simpson@glasgow.gov.uk.
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Further Information
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