Application Deadline: 13 March 2025
Department: People
Location: Shoreditch, London
Description
★ It's official… We've been certified as a Great Place to Work! ★
★ Your Dream Career in 2025 Starts Here: Join N Family Club and enjoy the best salaries, benefits, and career growth opportunities in the industry! ★
Discover the N Advantage — Our competitive salary and benefits package for 2025:
★ Competitive Salary: Earn up to £35,000 p/a plus car allowance and a performance-related bonus
★ Generous Holiday: Enjoy up to 35 days of holiday a year, including a 'Me' day of your choice and time off between Christmas and New Year
★ Daily Perks: Complimentary lunch and drinks every day
★ Professional Growth: Access a personal development fund of £100 per year to support your continued education
★ Exclusive N Academy Access: Receive paid time off and funding for qualifications, Leadership Training, and more
★ Family-Friendly Benefits: Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption/shared parental leave pay after 2 years of service, fostering leave, neonatal leave, and more
★ Childcare Discount: Get a 40% discount on childcare at our nurseries
★ Emergency Childcare: Access 6 backup childcare days at any of our nurseries when you need it
But that's not all…
★ 5-Year Bonus: Celebrate your 5th year n.iversary with a round-the-world trip and 2 extra weeks of holiday
★ 10-Year Bonus: After 10 years, enjoy an OUT OF THIS WORLD experience and another 2 weeks of holiday
★ Referral Bonuses: Earn up to £1,000 for every friend you refer who joins N Family Club
★ Exclusive Discounts: Get access to discounts on groceries, shopping, entertainment, and more with the Each Person's app
★ Travel Support: Season pass loans and cycle-to-work schemes to make commuting easy
★ Social Fun: Join us for our annual Winter Party, Summer BBQ, and regular team socials
★ Health & Wellbeing: Discounts on gym memberships and digital fitness classes through My Gym Discounts, and Health Cash Plans.
Why N Family Club?
We're more than just a nursery group; we're the UK's most innovative early years education provider.
Our vision? To be the highest quality, and most loved, early years education group in the UK.
Our purpose? To inspire and develop the next generation to reach their full potential in an ever-changing world.
At N Family Club, we dreamed of creating a place where early years education would be
reimagined. A place that fosters creativity, embraces a
curriculum-led approach, and prepares children for the modern world. We're proud to be making that dream a reality, and now, we're inviting you to be a part of it!
What it means to be an Academy Trainer at N Family Club…
This pivotal role within The N Academy focuses on delivering comprehensive training programmes across all areas of the business.
Working closely with the Academy Programme Manager, this role will deliver training at our training hubs and within nursery rooms, ensuring the consistent implementation of high quality training programmes that raise the bar and align with N Family Club's mission and operational excellence. Additionally, you will coach and mentor our entry-level talent, providing key skills support and guidance for apprentices and other new team members.
This field-based role in the People & Academy team is focused on delivering robust and high-quality training programmes and support for our people, as well as launching new initiatives and ways of working. You will be responsible for championing team members and partnering with leaders across the business to ensure we deliver our talent development strategy, which builds organisational and people capabilities to deliver business success.
Working backwards from the needs of all N team members and key stakeholders, you will drive efficient, accessible, inclusive, and frustration-free training programmes across the company that are scalable, fit for purpose, and future-proof. You will be passionate about helping others succeed while understanding how people manage change. This will allow you to make your mark and help N realise our vision of being the highest quality and most loved early years education group in the UK.
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Key Responsibilities
- Working flexibly to deliver training programmes across various locations, including online, at training hubs and in nursery rooms, at different times of day to meet the needs of our team
- Deliver specific training content using diverse learning modalities (e-learning, hands-on workshops, events, podcasts, virtual simulations) to accommodate different learning preferences
- Lead 'train the trainer' sessions to empower subject matter experts and wider team members
- Ensure the delivery of frustration-free programmes across the company, focusing on evolving the team member experience and increasing attendance
- Collaborate with subject matter experts and Academy Programme Managers to ensure consistency and quality in the delivery of training programmes
- Support subject matter experts with resources and guidance to maintain training standards
Experience, Training, Competencies
Required Experience:
- Proven experience in delivering training programmes
- Demonstrable business partnering skills in communication and stakeholder management
- Exposure to full learning lifecycle with expertise in multi modal training programme delivery
- Knowledge of learning and development best practices and learning principles
- Current working knowledge of LMS/LXP
- Excellent presentation skills
- Proven experience in a fast-paced, growing company
- Ideally some experience within a multi-site business
- Experience and/or passion for the Early Years or Education sector would be a major plus
Required Qualifications:
- Training qualification (or equivalent demonstrable experience)
- Willingness to complete CIPD qualification via apprenticeship (if not already achieved)
Core Competencies:
- Training delivery; you are adept at using diverse learning modalities
- Coaching and mentoring; you foster a supportive learning environment
- Communication and influencing; you have strong delivery, ensuring clarity and impact
- Adaptability and Flexibility; you can handle changing priorities with ease
- Collaboration and teamwork; you contribute to a positive team dynamic
- Data driven decision making; you use data to enhance training content and delivery methods
- Technical proficiency; you can quickly implement and adapt to new technologies
- Passion for fostering inclusive and supportive learning environments; you know people really well
