Learning and Development Advisor WCC618978

As Learning and Development Advisor, you can make your own powerful contribution to our Bi-Borough Adult Social Care department. Supporting continuous professional development, you'll enable our workforce to be part of even more extraordinary stories of lives changed for the better. As well as embedding best practice for the benefit of Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster residents, your work to up-skill caring professionals will help make sure everyone here feels supported and confident in their practice.

You'll be a key member of a supportive team with shared values. Managed by the Principal Social Worker, our Learning Advisors and Continuous Professional Development Officer are driven to support learning and development - and in return, they enjoy the benefits of agile and flexible working.

You'll have a varied and vital remit - from supporting the design, coordination and delivery of learning programmes, through to providing business and administrative support. Personally providing learning and development support for key initiatives and projects, you'll draw on best practice methodology to make a real difference. We'll look to you to identify learning and development needs within Adult Social Care, translate those needs into delivery plans, and help to develop, commission, deliver or facilitate events and interventions. Crucially, you'll also review the team's work, lead on completing and submitting data sets and statutory returns, and report on compliance. In a nutshell: you'll make sure the quality of what we do in Adult Social Care is equal to the passion with which we do it.

Ideally, you'll have a range of relevant experience - from coordinating and planning events or managing projects, through to designing, coordinating, delivering and evaluating learning and development programmes. Naturally, experience of working within a social care setting will be a big plus. We'd also prefer you to demonstrate knowledge of commissioning and procurement.

A skilled communicator with a commitment to customer service, you have what it takes to facilitate and present, and to carry out meaningful consultation with people to understand their training needs and gather learning and development requirements.

THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF INDEPENDENT LIVES

Adult Social Care in Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories, where our passionate, caring and committed professionals do brilliant work every day.

Mrs D was frail and unwell. Her son was her main carer, but he wasn't coping. We stepped in to help, but they were hostile to outside agencies. They'd always lived together and were terrified they'd be split up. Our social worker did a great job persuading Mrs D to get hospital treatment and a temporary stay in a care home. In an epic effort throughout COVID, she gained the son's trust and sorted all the repairs, carers and nurses needed so that Mrs D could come home to live with her son. We also got Mr D regular respite and a personal budget awarded in recognition of him as her carer. After all, there's nothing more important than living the life you want., Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster. Westminster City Council's strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster. A Fairer Westminster is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city's future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.

At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visit https://www.westminster.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/public-health-strategy-policies-and-reports/equality-duties

As a forward-thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.