Trainer Adviser

Our benefits

Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.

You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!

Why choose us?

We offer a vibrant working environment with:

• a competitive salary
• a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
• lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
• generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
• hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.

We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.

About the role

Are you a professional who thrives on being at the forefront of innovative practice and new ways of working?

Do you have a passion and commitment to work alongside teams to enable them to be their best?

Do you want to be part of a developing dynamic and creative culture, which seeks to connect individuals and staff to their communities

An exciting opportunity to join the Learning and Development team has arisen to support with our growing programme of learning and development activities across all teams in North Northamptonshire Council.  

We have portfolio of face-to-face and online courses and resources, covering a range of topics supporting professional and personal needs to help our employees and the organisation to grow.  

The L&D team supports the delivery of training within Adults Social Care, Children's, Leadership and Management, Digital Skills Development and Apprenticeships.  We are looking for four full time individuals who are experienced in any of these disciplines.

What will you be doing?

You will successfully design and implement interactive, challenging and stimulating learning content, utilising appropriate technologies. 

You will be contributing and supporting the development and delivery of learning and development programmes.  

You will be delivering to employees from the wide range of roles within North Northamptonshire Council including Adults Social Care, Housing, Children's  to meet customer requirements.

You’ll be delivering and evaluating face to face and online learning interventions, including the development of course materials, user guides and exercises to aid learning.

About you

Do your skills set, and values match our ambitions?

You will have;

• Excellent communication skills and be able to build a strong rapport with our learners
• Confidence in face to face training delivery
• A self-starter who is willing to get stuck in and be proactive and can think creatively
• Good working knowledge of managing change and be positive to new ideas and problem solving
• Ability and experience of the full learning cycle as well as supporting learners individually
• Understand what is needed to manage projects from inception to delivery
• Working with team managers and delivering on projects associated within adult social work and/or adult social care
• The ability to ensure a quality service is delivered to learners, that NNC  policies and values are complied with and reporting deadlines are met.

In return you will receive regular supervision and learning and development activities to support with your own Continued professional development.

At North Northamptonshire Council, we are committed to the importance of promoting equal opportunities, valuing diversity and creating an inclusive working environment for all our employees.

About us

Our Values and Behaviours

Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are:

Customer-focused
Respectful
Efficient
Supportive
Trustworthy

Our Key Commitments

Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.

We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.

North Northamptonshire Council re-signed the Armed Forces Covenant in June 2024 which highlights the Council’s pledge to support the Armed Forces community. The council obtained the silver status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) and we are now currently working towards achieving Gold status.

Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)