Health and Social Care Trainer

You will design and deliver training that builds colleagues’ skills and confidence, supports their development and helps them provide excellent care.

Working closely with Home Managers and the wider leadership team, you will identify learning needs, monitor training completion and help services address gaps. You will also manage our learning management system, support colleagues to use it effectively and provide clear reports that help managers understand progress and take action.

• Design and deliver engaging training — deliver core and mandatory training face to face and online, adapting your approach to different learning needs and using feedback to improve sessions.
• Develop confident care teams — coach and support colleagues to build their skills and put their learning into practice.
• Keep training on track — use your experience of monitoring compliance and maintaining training matrices or learning records to identify gaps, keep records accurate and work with managers to address outstanding training.
• Manage our learning management system — support its smooth operation and help service teams use it confidently and effectively.
• Provide clear, useful reporting — draw on your reporting experience and Microsoft Excel and Office skills to present training progress, risks and recommended actions to managers and senior leaders.
• Support inspection readiness — help services prepare training evidence for CQC inspections, local authority visits and internal audits, applying your knowledge of relevant legislation, CQC training requirements and Skills for Care guidance.
• Help new colleagues get the right start — monitor induction and Care Certificate completion, working with managers to ensure training requirements are met.
• Promote safe, person-centred care — apply your understanding of the Mental Capacity Act, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards and less restrictive practice throughout your work.

• Must hold a full UK Driving Licence
• A minimum of two years training delivery experience.
• Strong knowledge of the Health & Social Care Act 2008, Skills for Care Core and Mandatory Training Guidelines, and CQC requirements
• At least four years’ experience in health and social care, and an Emergency First Aid at Work certificate, or willingness to obtain it within an agreed timescale.
• Hold at least a Level 3 Award in Education and Training or equivalent e.g., PTLLS.
• Current Moving and Handling certificate, or willingness to achieve within a specified timescale.
• Flexibility to travel

• A Level 5 qualification in Health and Social Care, or previous management experience.
• Experience preparing training evidence for inspections, using learning management systems and delivering training through platforms such as Microsoft Teams
• Train the Trainer qualifications in Safer People Handling and Basic Life Support.

• 28 days’ annual leave, with additional leave for length of service.
• An additional day off for your birthday.
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme for practical advice and wellbeing support.
• A pension scheme and life insurance.
• Blue Light Card and cycle to work schemes.
• Opportunities for continued training and professional development.
• Staff recognition and refer-a-friend schemes.

Our values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence guide everything we do. We are committed to equality, diversity, and creating environments where both the people we support and our staff can thrive.

When you join Glenholme Senior Living, you become part of a team that truly cares about people and about doing the right thing.

Join a team that cares about you, as much as you care for others. Apply now join Glenholme Senior Living as our Health and Social Care Trainer