Job Description: Health & Social Care Trainer
Location: National role, with travel across the UK to client sites, care settings, training venues, nurseries and early years providers
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Job Type: Full-time, permanent
Salary: Competitive, dependent on experience and qualifications
Job Purpose
To deliver high-quality, engaging and compliant training nationally across the adult care, health and safety, first aid and early years sectors. The National Care Sector Trainer will design, develop, deliver and review course content and learner resources in line with Highfield awarding body requirements, relevant qualification specifications, current legislation, sector guidance and employer needs. The postholder will ensure learners gain the knowledge, confidence and practical competence required to work safely, deliver person-centred care, safeguard adults and children, and meet regulatory expectations within adult social care and early years provision.
Key Responsibilities
· National Training Delivery: Deliver high-quality face-to-face, practical, classroom-based and blended training across the UK for adult care providers, domiciliary care services, residential and nursing care settings, education and early years providers.
· Highfield Course Content Development: Produce, maintain and review course content, lesson plans, schemes of work, learner handouts, assessments, practical activities and presentation materials in line with Highfield qualification specifications, assessment requirements, centre policies and awarding body expectations.
· Mandatory Training Delivery: Deliver statutory, mandatory and role-specific training that supports employers to meet CQC, Skills for Care, Health and Safety Executive, EYFS and safeguarding requirements, ensuring content remains current and evidence based.
· Practical Competency Assessment: Assess learners’ practical competence in key areas such as moving and assisting, basic life support, first aid, paediatric first aid, medication practice, infection prevention and safe working procedures.
· Quality Assurance: Support internal quality assurance processes by maintaining accurate records, assessment evidence, attendance registers, feedback forms, evaluation summaries and action plans for improvement.
· Compliance and Continuous Improvement: Keep up to date with changes in legislation, Highfield guidance, Skills for Care guidance, EYFS statutory framework updates, safeguarding expectations and best practice across adult care and early years settings.
· Training Equipment and Resources: Ensure all training equipment, including manikins, AED trainers, hoists, slide sheets, PPE, medication resources and practical demonstration materials, is safe, clean, fit for purpose and available for delivery.
· Learner Support: Create an inclusive learning environment, adapting delivery to meet learner needs, supporting confidence, checking understanding and promoting professional standards throughout training.
Core Training Modules to Deliver
The postholder will be required to deliver, develop or support a wide range of statutory, mandatory and specialist short courses across adult care, health and safety, first aid and early years provision, including the following:
· First Aid and Emergency Response: Emergency First Aid at Work, First Aid at Work, Basic Life Support, CPR and AED awareness, anaphylaxis awareness, choking response, emergency response procedures and incident management.
· Paediatric and Early Years First Aid: Full Paediatric First Aid, Emergency Paediatric First Aid, first aid for infants and children, accident response, head injuries, allergic reactions, choking, burns, illness recognition and EYFS-aligned first aid expectations.
· Moving and Assisting: Moving and assisting people, safe use of hoists, slings and transfer aids, risk assessment, safer handling principles, posture, falls prevention and practical competency assessment.
· Health and Safety: Health and safety in the workplace, risk assessment, COSHH, RIDDOR, fire safety, manual handling objects, lone working, slips, trips and falls, accident reporting and safe systems of work.
· Safeguarding: Safeguarding adults, safeguarding children, child protection, professional curiosity, safer recruitment awareness, reporting concerns, whistleblowing, duty of care, Prevent awareness and escalation procedures.
· Care Practice and Clinical Awareness: Infection prevention and control, medication awareness or administration, nutrition and hydration, pressure area care, dignity and privacy, person-centred care, communication, dementia awareness, end-of-life awareness and record keeping.
· Legislation, Rights and Inclusion: Mental Capacity Act, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards, equality, diversity and inclusion, human rights, information governance, confidentiality, GDPR, complaints handling and professional boundaries.
· Learning Disability and Autism: Learning disability and autism awareness, including training aligned to current statutory expectations such as Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training requirements where applicable to the employer and learner role.
· Early Years and Childcare: EYFS awareness, safeguarding and welfare requirements, paediatric first aid expectations, safer eating, food hygiene for early years, allergy awareness, medication in early years settings, risk assessment, nappy changing and toileting considerations, child development awareness and inclusive practice.
· Food Safety and Safer Eating: Food hygiene, food safety in care and early years settings, nutrition, hydration, allergen awareness, choking prevention, mealtime supervision and safe support with eating and drinking.
Person Specification / Qualifications
· Teaching or Training Qualification: Level 3 Award in Education and Training, Level 4 Certificate in Education and Training, Level 5 Diploma in Education and Training, PTLLS/CTLLS/DTLLS or equivalent teaching qualification.
· Sector Experience: Significant experience of working in, managing, assessing or delivering training within adult health and social care, with strong understanding of care delivery, regulatory expectations and safe practice.
· First Aid Competence: Current and relevant first aid qualifications suitable for delivery of Emergency First Aid at Work, First Aid at Work, Basic Life Support and Paediatric First Aid, with confidence to deliver practical assessment and demonstrations.
· Moving and Assisting Competence: Relevant moving and handling or moving and assisting people qualification, with experience of delivering practical training using hoists, slings, slide sheets and transfer aids.
· Early Years Knowledge: Knowledge of EYFS safeguarding and welfare requirements, paediatric first aid expectations, safer eating, child protection, early years risk assessment and training needs within nurseries, childcare and education settings.
· Highfield and Awarding Body Knowledge: Ability to interpret Highfield qualification specifications, assessment criteria, learning outcomes and centre requirements, and to produce compliant course content and learner resources.
· Regulatory Knowledge: Strong working knowledge of CQC expectations, Skills for Care guidance, health and safety legislation, safeguarding duties, the Mental Capacity Act, equality and diversity requirements, and relevant early years statutory guidance.
· Quality and Administration: Ability to maintain accurate learner records, assessment paperwork, registers, feedback, evaluations and compliance evidence to support audit, internal quality assurance and awarding body review.
· Communication and Delivery Skills: Confident, engaging and professional trainer with the ability to adapt delivery for different learner groups, manage practical activities safely and promote positive learner outcomes.
· Travel Requirements: Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel nationally, including overnight stays where required.
Pay: £35,000.00-£40,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Private medical insurance
Work Location: On the road
