At Victim Support we believe in attracting & retaining the best people and offer a competitive rewards & benefits package including:Flexible working options including hybrid working28 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays, rising to 33 days plus Bank Holidays
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- An extra day off for your Birthday
- Pension with 5% employer contribution
- Enhanced sick pay allowances, maternity & paternity payments
- High Street, retail, holiday, entertainment & leisure discounts
- Access to our financial wellbeing hub & salary deducted finance
- Employee assistance programme & wellbeing support
- Ongoing training & support with opportunities for career development & progression
- About the role:Our Learning and Development Managers are passionate about learning and leading a team to deliver positive outcomes for our employees and volunteers. This will be a busy role but will offer great variety. It will include line management of a mixed role L&D team, designing new learning interventions and building and maintaining internal relationships. You'll be a role model for learning behaviours and drive new interventions that support our team to achieve our ambitious plans.
You will;Build strong stakeholder relationships with middle managers across the organisation to effectively understand and address learning needs which ultimately improve performance and the quality of services.
Be accountable for learning design projects from end to end, which is inclusive of scoping learning needs, recommending interventions, planning the project, carrying out the design and where required delegating work tasks to the team with a brief.
Support the Head of Learning and Development in building an effective learning culture across Victim Support that provides impactful, accessible and efficient learning interventions for employees and volunteers
Create and deliver on a business plan for your own areas of focus within the L&D team and provide vision and clarity for those within your area of responsibility. This will include external provision of learning for income generation.
Leadership of a mixed skill based learning and development team inclusive of recruitment, performance management, continual development and allocation of work tasks.
You will need:
Experience of leading learning design projects including online learning, face to face workshops, virtual classroom sessions and independent learner led tools and resources
Experience of managing own and others time effectively including identifying priorities, setting goals and using available resources to deliver results
Effective communication using different methods and strong active listening skills
Strong problem solving skills with a curious mind-set and an ability to analyse data and make informed decisions
Experience of leading collaboration across a team of individuals with different expertise, coordinating efforts and responding to conflict
Experience of leading empathetically and with influence, building trust and rapport, across a team and other relationships across the organisation
This role will work from home for 37.5 hours a week but will have moderate travel across England and Wales with possible overnight stays and some out of hours working.
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details.
About Us:
Victim Support (VS) is an independent charity providing a range of specialist services to people who have been affected by crime across England and Wales. We work towards a world where there are fewer victims but who have stronger rights, better support and a real influence in the Criminal Justice System. Everyone at VS is driven by our Vision Ambitions and Values to play their part in making a difference for those who experience crime and traumatic events. Working for VS gives you the opportunity to play a key role in a national charity providing high quality services to victims and witnesses and being a vital force for change.
Victim Support are committed to recruiting with care and to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Background checks and Disclosed Barring Service checks may be required.
Victim Support strives to represent the diverse communities we serve and are passionate about creating an environment where all staff and volunteers feel respected and heard. Being a diverse organisation with an inclusive culture is integral to us being able to meet our aim of ensuring that anyone who is a vic
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Victim Support