ROLE PURPOSE STATEMENT
To lead on the development, promotion, delivery, and review of training and education programmes in three specialised contexts: neurodiversity education and support, reducing reoffending guidance in relation to effective resettlement and transition after departure from prison, and survival and stability for people experiencing homelessness. While the last of these focuses primarily on local practitioners, organisation partners, and professionals across sectors, the other two are intended to support people with relevant lived experience to develop the tools, resilience, skills, understanding, and foundations they need to ensure they are able to thrive. This role will engage with vulnerable people, professionals across a arrange of industries, and colleagues across developmentplus.
JOB DESCRIPTION
Reporting to: Deputy CEO
Location: Based at South Park, Lincoln, LN5 8EW, working across Lincolnshire
Salary: £28,000 per annum
Hours: Full time (37.5 hours per week), fixed term until March 2028.
FURTHER INFORMATION
Pension: Statutory pension scheme with NEST Pension – depending on hours and contract. Pension contributions matched up to 5%.
Holiday: Leave entitlement is 26 days per annum plus statutory bank holidays. In addition, all staff also receive a wellbeing day each year.
Support: All staff receive an induction and orientation programme and regular supervision meetings with their line manager.
Training: You will be offered continual professional development training appropriate to your role. This will include training on equality and diversity, safeguarding and data protection.
Other: Include flexible working, paid travel and expenses, health and wellbeing support, supportive workplace environment and team events and activities.
SERVICE OVERVIEW
Our new Training and Education service will develop and deliver the following training programmes, offered on a rolling basis: neurodiversity education and support programme, reducing re-offending work, and work with professionals supporting rough sleepers. Funded through the Crisis & Resilience Fund, this work will also directly support local residents to develop the skills, confidence and resilience needed to navigate future challenges, particularly in financial contexts, and will build resilience in the wider community.
By strengthening the knowledge and confidence of both vulnerable and disadvantaged people, and of professionals and organisations supporting vulnerable residents, we can contribute to a more informed and responsive support network for resilience, improving long-term outcomes and helping prevent people from reaching crisis. In relation to our neurodiversity education, for example, this work will support neurodivergent adults to develop the skills, confidence and resilience needed not only to access employment, but to thrive and sustain positive outcomes in the workplace, using our existing resources as a basis. Recognising the close relationship between neurodiversity, mental health and employment, the programme will help participants understand their individual strengths, identify potential workplace challenges, and develop practical strategies to effectively self-manage their wellbeing at work.
Specialist knowledge will be drawn upon and developed with colleagues from our Reducing Reoffending Service, Rough Sleeper Support Hub, and Personal Development Mentoring Service. Across this work, there are a number of key outcomes for our beneficiaries, including:
· Improved mental health, wellbeing and emotional resilience.
· Improved communication, interpersonal and self-management skills.
· Increased knowledge of workplace rights, reasonable adjustments and support available.
· Reduced barriers to employment, training and volunteering opportunities.
· Increased financial resilience through improved employability and job sustainability.
· Increased independence, stability and capacity to manage future challenges positively
· Bespoke and specialist outcomes for each programme in the training and education delivery
We believe that building resilience must extend beyond the individual and into the wider community of support that surrounds them. While much attention is rightly given to helping people develop the skills and confidence to manage future challenges, equal importance should be placed on ensuring that professionals, volunteers and local communities are equipped to understand and respond to those challenges effectively.
KEY TASKS
Training Design, Development, and Delivery
- Designing engaging, flexible, and accessible training and education content on the primary subjects detailed above, including a range of activities and take-home resources
- Develop clear programme structures, learning aims, education approaches, and delivery timelines
- Work with developmentplus colleagues to develop appropriate content and approaches, making best use of their specialist expertise
- Provide regular, accessible, subject-based training, on specific topics under the theme of resilience, to a range of community and professional audiences
- Create all teaching and learning materials and additional resources
- Develop clear referral pathways through which beneficiaries can receive education and training
Networking and Engagement
- Draw upon beneficiary lived experience and professional expertise to ensure a consistently high-quality, fit-for-purpose programme of learning across all subjects
- Undertake a range of community-based engagement activities to ensure referrals to and uptake of the range of training and education on offer
- Network with a range of local organisations to sell bookings onto professionals-focused training activity
Monitoring and Evaluation
- Develop mechanisms for qualitative and quantitative feedback, consistently seeking beneficiary and professional feedback about quality and impact of programmes
- Lead on service review processes, including funder-required monitoring and evaluation
- Regularly report progress (in line with CRF requirements), challenges, learning, and impact to the line manager and share information more broadly with senior leaders and the wider developmentplus team
Organisational Behaviours
- Clear adherence to developmentplus policies and procedures and consistent reflection of the organisation’s vision, mission, and values
- Treating beneficiaries, and professional partners, with respect, sensitivity, and courtesy
- Maintaining appropriate levels of safeguarding, data protection, and other legal frameworks
- Direct leadership of the service, and use of leadership behaviours in supporting, engaging, and collaborating with developmentplus colleagues
- Commitment to self-development and supporting the learning of other colleagues
- General administration, self-organisation, and related office and operational activities
PERSONAL SPECIFICATION
Experience
Essential
- Directly delivering training, learning, or education to a range of audiences.
- Creating and developing training, learning, and education for a range of audiences with a range of needs.
- Working with either vulnerable and disadvantaged people, people with complex needs or trauma, or those with learning differences.
Desirable
- Working in or in partnership with charitable organisations.
Qualifications
Essential
- High levels of literacy and numeracy.
- Training, teaching, or education qualifications, ideally focused on adult learning, or significant qualification by experience.
- Evidence of further professional development, learning and training.
Skills & Knowledge
Essential
- Able to communicate well, both verbally and in writing.
- Confident and comfortable working with complex beneficiaries.
- Able to engage a range of audiences, including community beneficiaries with varied needs and local professionals at a range of levels.
- Understanding of the importance of boundaries, safeguarding, confidentiality, professional standards, and data protection.
- Able to work on own initiative, and be responsive, proactive and flexible.
- Strong organisational and administrative skills.
- Established IT skills across all Microsoft products and others.
Desirable
- Understanding of the charitable sector, complex needs, neurodiversity, the criminal justice system, and homelessness.
- Valid driving licence and access to own vehicle
For any queries contact [email protected]
Closing Date: Tuesday 15 September, 12pm
Interviews: Thursday 24 September, times TBC
Pay: £28,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
Application question(s):
- Please outline your experience to date, highlighting specific achievements and skills relevant to the activities set out in the job description and personal specification.
Work Location: In person
