About the role
We are seeking to recruit a dynamic, experienced, skilled and innovative Trainer Advisor, to join our Learning and Development Service, supporting the development and transformation of our workforce.
The service is a large team of professional advisors, designing, commissioning, and delivering training across a wide range of specialist areas, including Leadership & Management, Personal Skills Development, Team Development, Change Management, Digital Skills and Adult Social Care, via a blend of delivery methods.
We support a hybrid approach to working in the office and at home and you will be expected to be able to travel to sites across North Northamptonshire to deliver services direct to our customers, as and when required.
This post is being offered for maternity leave cover and is on a 6-9 month fixed term basis.
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 deliver both corporate and bespoke programmes 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
You will be passionate about developing people, with a proven track record in the design and delivery of learning and development programmes and particularly business systems projects, providing innovative blended learning solutions.
You will be proficient in the use of technology, have excellent communication, facilitation, and presentation skills with experience of working to influence and introduce new approaches.
If this sounds like you, and you are excited by the idea of playing a part in developing our workforce, we want to hear from you.
Interviews are currently expected to place on 17th and 18th December. To find out more about the role and for an informal discussion, please contact sue.wilson@northnorthants.gov.uk.
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.
We aim to be a carbon neutral Council by 2030.
Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)
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.
