Are you passionate about people, leadership, and unlocking potential? Do you thrive in a dynamic environment where no two days are the same? Do you love to facilitate great learning experiences? We're looking for a Learning & Development Manager to help us build a brilliant, compassionate, and forward-thinking NHS workforce.
In this exciting role, you’ll:
Be a trusted advisor to managers and staff on all things learning and development.
Lead inspiring training and development initiatives that are in line with the new NHS Leadership & Management Framework: Leadership and Management Framework
Deliver engaging, impactful learning experiences—from engaging training delivery, to team building.
Provide support Trust wide through the delivery of our People strategies and projects.
You’ll need to bring:
Training/ learning/ facilitation delivery skills
Coaching experience and a passion for people development
Outstanding communication and influencing skills
Knowledge of L&OD best practices
The drive to lead projects, organisational development interventions and shape future-ready teams
This is your chance to make a real impact across the organisation- empowering individuals, enhancing services and helping to shape a positive culture!
You will drive the continuous professional development of our staff through the identification and provision of learning and development opportunities. You will actively support a culture of learning and personalised, impactful development.
North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust provides 24 hour, 365 days a year accident and emergency services to those in need of emergency medical treatment and transport.
Our highly skilled staff provide life-saving care to patients in the community and take people to hospital or a place of care if needed.
We also provide non-emergency patient transport services for those patients who require non-emergency transport to and from hospital and who are unable to travel unaided because of their medical condition or clinical need.
Alongside the other emergency services, we also work to ensure the safety of the public and treatment of patients in the event of a major incident.
We also deliver the NHS 111 service in the North West. NHS 111 replaced NHS Direct in 2013. This service was introduced to make it easier for people to access local NHS healthcare services in England. It provides non-emergency medical help fast, and is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Our ideal candidate will hold a recognised and relevant learning qualification. You will have knowledge of current issues and future trends in learning. You will have demonstrable experience of delivering high-quality learning and facilitation with the ability and drive to develop and deliver improvement to learning and strategies that support this. You will have developed strength in supporting teams and have experience of embedding a learning culture across organisations.
This advert will close on 22 September 2026.
NWAS is committed to employing compassionate, inclusive adaptive leaders. We offer a dynamic recruitment process, enabling applicants to work together, be at their best to make a difference, in line with our Trust values and leadership philosophy. Applicants are requested to be available on 1 st October 2026 for the selection process.
As part of the recruitment process, if you are successfully shortlisted, you will be invited to take part in an Assessment Centre. This may include completion of group activities, delivering a micro teach or similar, followed by a professional discussion.
The dates of these elements are as follows:
Notification of final shortlisting by 28 th September 2026.
Assessment centre will take place on 1 st October 2026.
Please contact Danielle Soens-Hughes, Head of Learning and Leadership at
[email protected] for a chat about the role!
