Job Title: Specialist Support Trainer
Position Duration
Permanent
Role Type
Business Development and Marketing
County
Coventry
Company
Lifeways Group
Salary / rate of pay
£28000
Town or City
Coventry
Ref No
9882
Position Type: Permanent / Full-Time
Hours of work: 37.5 Hours per week
Function: Group Services / Operational Excellence / Specialist Support
Reporting to: Learning & Development Manager
Location: Warwickshire, Coventry, Staffordshire, Worcester, Stoke
As a Specialist Trainer you will be expected to deliver a wide range of specialist learning opportunities supporting new staff at induction through to refreshing the knowledge and skills of existing staff in topics such as positive behaviour support, physical intervention training (in line with the Restraint Reduction Network Training Standards), and person specific conditions.
This role is unique in that you will work in partnership with the Practitioner to identify and deliver the required training solution. You will be confident to deliver pre-developed learning material consistently across your area while also making it your own. In addition, we will enable you to become training leads in certain subject areas such as Autism, Acquired Brain Injury, Mental Health. You need to have excellent organisation and planning skills, be outgoing and enthusiastic and have a passion to make learning exciting and interesting for all.
Key Responsibilities
- Motivating and inspiring learners to achieve and develop their knowledge and skills.
- Planning and delivering effective learning activities for diverse groups in a safe and inclusive environment.
- Promoting a variety of learning approaches to suit the needs of the learners and the organisation.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of Positive Behaviour Support and least restrictive practices.
- Supporting those learners who may have specific needs and work creatively to overcome any barriers to learning.
- Enabling learners to share responsibility for their own learning, setting goals that challenge where appropriate.
- Providing constructive and timely feedback to learners and to Operational Managers.
- Deliver learning activities as per regional / organisational requirements.
- Demonstrate the required level of knowledge and underpinning values to competently deliver all elements of the curriculum.
Essential Experience, Skills & Qualifications
- Minimum 2 years’ continuous employment in support or care roles in health care, social care or education.
- The ability to identify training needs for individuals and ensure they remain relevant
- Awareness of theoretical concepts, approaches and strategies of positive behaviour support (PBS)
- Willingness to work towards Training of Trainer programmes in Physical Intervention Systems (Such as NAPPI and PROACT-SCIPr-UK®)
- Hold or willingness to complete an accredited training qualification e.g Level 3 Award in Education and Training (QCF) or equivalent.
- Current Emergency First Aid at Work certificate (which includes immediate life support) or willingness to achieve within a specified timescale.
- Capacity to work unsupervised and co-operatively with others with the ability to promote and support the effectiveness of Lifeways’ employee learning & development strategies.
- Able to maintain confidentiality and deal with situations in a sensitive manner
- The ideal person will positive, resilient, and dynamic with excellent training delivery and presentation skills
The above is the minimum criteria needed to apply for this role and applications will be shortlisted based on the above.. Please ensure you meet all of the essential criteria above, and evidence this in your application when applying.
At Lifeways we value our colleagues and work hard to develop their skills through the provision of training and support. We are expanding and so there are real opportunities for career development.
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