Salary: £34,434 to £35,412 per annum (pro-rata equivalent £20,940 to £21,534 per annum)
Hours: 22.5 Hours per week
Location: Cumberland-Wide
Contract: Permanent
About this opportunity
We’re looking for a training professional to help deliver essential, mandatory Health & Safety training across the council—supporting a wide and diverse range of services.
You will use your skills, knowledge, and experience to help determine learning needs, provide professional advice on learning solutions, and deliver high‑quality learning interventions that help colleagues work safely, competently, and confidently.
This is an exciting, varied, and professionally stimulating role. Your time will not only focus on facilitation and delivery but will also allow you to help shape operational improvements through practical, service‑focused learning.
You’ll be designing, writing, and enhancing training materials, conducting courses, and offering support to our services on learning subjects such as Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) Managing Safely, Manual Handling, First Aid, and a wide variety of other subject areas.
Due to growing demand for statutory and regulatory training, the post will help strengthen internal delivery capacity—supporting services to maintain compliance and a safe working environment.
What you’ll be doing
Deliver a programme of mandatory Health & Safety training to meet statutory and organisational requirements.
Design, write, update, and continuously improve learning resources (including eLearning and virtual resources where appropriate).
Facilitate engaging, practical training sessions across a range of topics including (but not limited to):
- IOSH Managing Safely
- Manual Handling
- First Aid
Provide supportive, customer‑focused advice to services on learning solutions and safe working practices through training.
Work collaboratively with the Health & Safety function and training colleagues to coordinate and improve the council’s approach to mandatory training delivery.
This role is available on a permanent basis.
The ideal candidate will be:
A confident trainer/facilitator with a proactive approach and creative, practical ideas.
Solutions‑focused, flexible, and committed to excellent customer service.
Experienced in designing learning solutions that are effective and impactful (and ideally with experience in the subject areas above)
Comfortable working across a diverse range of services, adapting training to different operational contexts and needs.
Who we’re looking for
We’re looking for individuals who embody our organisation's core values: ambitious, collaborative, compassionate, empowering, and innovative. We believe in the power of these values to drive positive change, deliver excellent public services and shape a better future for our communities.
We welcome applications from experienced facilitators and those with a strong background in Health and Safety & Learning & Development.
Be sure to take a look at the post specification (below) for the essential criteria for this role.
Why join us?
You’ll be part of a supportive team with a strong track record of delivering excellent training programmes. We’re friendly, proactive, and passionate about workforce development and the positive difference it makes to employees and services.
Contact
For more information about the role or to arrange an informal chat prior to your application, please contact Phillip Summerfield by email at [email protected]
Guaranteed Interviews
We offer a guaranteed interview to the following applicants as long as your application can demonstrate you meet the essential criteria for the role.
- Those who consider themselves disabled as defined by the Equality Act 2010
- Those in care or who have left care and are aged 24 and under
- Those who identify as a member of the British Armed Forces community (service leavers, veterans, their partners or spouses, reservists, cadets).
If you meet one or more of the criteria above, and wish to be considered for this scheme, select 'yes' to the appropriate question during your application. Find out more.
Diversity, Inclusion & Adjustments
We’re dedicated to enhancing the diversity of our workforce and we encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds. That’s why we’re a proud Disability Confident Leader and also an Age Friendly Employer – to provide opportunities for everyone to thrive.
If you need any reasonable adjustments to participate in the recruitment process, please let either the hiring manager or our Resourcing Team know by emailing [email protected]. While adjustments aren’t always guaranteed, we’ll always listen and we’ll try our best to accommodate your needs.
Application and Interview information
Easily apply by submitting your CV and answering a few short questions
- Closing date: Sunday 19th July 2026
- Interview date: 28th and 29th July 2026
If you experience any difficulties logging in to apply for this role, please contact the HR Systems team at [email protected].
Please note this role may close early subject to demand. If you’re interested in applying, you should apply well before the advised closing date. We cannot accept applications once the role has closed.
