Training Officer
Location: Remote with travel to Newark, Lincoln, Peterborough and the surrounding areas
Salary: £29,975.00
Hours: 40 Hours Per Week
About Kisimul
At Kisimul we’re dedicated to helping the people we support expand their life skills, abilities and experiences as part of our therapeutic community and meaningful life model. Our ethos is to put individual needs, values, aspirations and outcomes at the centre of everything we do providing holistic care and lifelong learning in a nurturing, supportive environment that encourages personal growth and development.
The Role
We are looking for a Training Officer to join our Learning and Development team, playing a key role in developing the knowledge, skills and confidence of colleagues across the Kisimul Group. You will work closely with operational teams to deliver high-quality learning that supports outstanding care, education and clinical services.
You'll design and deliver engaging training programmes, assess learner competence, and provide practical support to help colleagues develop the skills they need to succeed in their roles. Working collaboratively with operational leaders and subject matter experts, you'll ensure our training remains relevant, compliant and aligned to best practice, helping to create a confident, capable and highly skilled workforce.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, deliver and evaluate in-house training sessions deploying a wide variety of training methodologies and creating engaging and effective training materials.
- Undertake learner assessments against required subject knowledge and competency standards, using a variety of methods.
- Maintain accurate training and assessment records via the learning management system.
- Work collaboratively with operational services, quality assurance leads, therapy services and other subject matter experts as required.
- Maintain currency, accuracy and quality of training materials in line with industry standards and regulations, organisational policies and procedures, and responding to Operational, Regulatory and Local Authority feedback.
- Ensure standards for training delivery are met and maintained.
- Maintain individual Continuing Professional Development ensuring occupational and professional competence.
- Maintain and safe and professional training environment.
- Provide assessment support if required for learners undertaking the Level 3 Diploma for Residential Childcare or Level 2 Diploma in Health and Social Care (where qualified).Providing advice, guidance and support and completing fair and reliable assessment of knowledge skills and performance against occupational standards
- Undertake any other reasonable activity suited to your qualifications and experience as requested by the Learning and Development Manager
What We’re Looking For
- Level 3 Trainer/ Learning and Development Qualification
- Sector relevant qualification e.g. Level 3 Diploma for Residential Childcare
- Relevant work-based experience within residential childcare and/or supporting children/adults with complex needs and behaviours of concern.
- Experience of working in a learning and development environment with responsibility for development, delivery and evaluation of face to face/Online training programmes
- Experience working at a supervisory level.
- Excellent knowledge of relevant legislation and statutory regulations and frameworks within health and social care.
- In depth knowledge of training requirements and standards in the Social Care sector for both Adults and Children
- Ability to problem solve and provide workable solutions
- Knowledge and application of adult learning theories.
- Excellent organisational skills, able to work to tight deadlines and manage own workload.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment and across services and departments building effective working relationships
- Excellent communication skills
- Self-motivated and able to use own initiative.
- Good IT skills including use of Microsoft Office/365 (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Teams)
- Understanding of and commitment to Diversity, Equality and Inclusion
- A valid driving licence and access to a car is required with the ability to travel to various service locations.
- Ability to work flexibly to meet the needs of learners within care and education services which may require working outside of typical office hours at times.
Desirable
- Assessor Award
- Supporting learners to achieve vocational qualifications.
Understanding of vocational qualifications and quality frameworks
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Benefits
- Genuine Career Development: Opportunities with transparent pay grades (find out more here – Kisimul | Autism, Learning Disability, Residential Care)
- Fully Funded Qualifications
- Blue Light Card: Which gives you access to discounts in over 15,000 venues UK wide
- Refer a friend: Earn up to £500 for every successful hire.
- Financial Benefits: Life Assurance of 1x your annual basic salary. Access to salary sacrifice pension scheme, withdraw a percentage of your wages as you earn them before payday with Stream. Access to Discounts from over 150 retailers.
- Health & Wellbeing: From access to an online GP, confidential telephone counselling, dedicated internal wellbeing support and an Employee Assistance Programme that truly makes a difference.
- Flexible Working Patterns: We recognise that not everyone celebrates the same occasions, so colleagues have the option to work on bank holidays and take the time off at another point that’s more meaningful to them.
- Cycle to Work Scheme: Salary-deducted bikes to save money.
- Free DBS Checks: We cover the cost so you can start worry-free.
About Kisimul
Kisimul Group Ltd are a group of independent specialist schools and adult provisions providing exceptional residential care and award-winning education to children, young people and adults with a diagnosis of Autistic Spectrum Disorder, severe and complex learning difficulties, global development delay and associated challenging behaviour.
We are proud to be awarded an outstanding company to work for as voted in our most recent companies employee survey
Kisimul is dedicated to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of adults, children and young people, and expects all staff to share this commitment.
At Kisimul, we’re committed to creating a workplace that celebrates and welcomes diversity in all its forms. We believe that varied perspectives make us stronger and more innovative. If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every requirement, we encourage you to apply — your unique background, perspective, and potential might be exactly what we’re looking for
All roles are subject to an enhanced DBS check. If you’re ready to invest in your future and make a meaningful impact, apply today!
Level 3 Trainer/ Learning and Development Qualification
Sector relevant qualification e.g. Level 3 Diploma for Residential Childcare
Relevant work-based experience within residential childcare and/or supporting children/adults with complex needs and behaviours of concern.
Experience of working in a learning and development environment with responsibility for development, delivery and evaluation of face to face/Online training programmes
Experience working at a supervisory level.
Excellent knowledge of relevant legislation and statutory regulations and frameworks within health and social care.
In depth knowledge of training requirements and standards in the Social Care sector for both Adults and Children
Ability to problem solve and provide workable solutions
Knowledge and application of adult learning theories.
Excellent organisational skills, able to work to tight deadlines and manage own workload.
Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment and across services and departments building effective working relationships
Excellent communication skills
Self-motivated and able to use own initiative.
Good IT skills including use of Microsoft Office/365 (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Teams)
Understanding of and commitment to Diversity, Equality and Inclusion
A valid driving licence and access to a car is required with the ability to travel to various service locations.
- Ability to work flexibly to meet the needs of learners within care and education services which may require working outside of typical office hours at times.
