Learning and Development Consultant

Our people make West Sussex County Council an exciting and inclusive place to work – a place where you can develop and broaden your skills. Want to be a part of this? Keep reading, to find out more…

Salary: £45,441 – £48,474 per annum
Working Pattern: Full-time (37 hours per week)
Location: County Hall, Chichester, and Flexible Working Arrangements.
Interview Date: Mid–January 2024

As a Learning and Development Consultant, you will be primarily responsible for the commissioning of L&D opportunities on behalf of the County Council within our Corporate Services e.g. Finance, Human Resources & Organisational Development, and Comms & Engagement.

You will be responsible for understanding, defining, and forecasting your customers’ L&D requirements, translating these into plans and solutions, and ensuring that everything gets evaluated.

You will support the development of a culture of continuous, employee-led learning in which staff can be the best they can be. You will enable staff to have the skills and expertise for now and the future. We offer a blend of development experiences, which includes coaching, formal events, online learning opportunities alongside conversations as part of performance reviews, and encourages reflective practice in supervision. Through this offer, we aim to increase our people’s self-awareness, confidence and willingness to take responsibility for their own development.

What are we looking for?

In order to be successful in this role you will need:

• Excellent collaborative working abilities and be effective in working in partnership to co-design solutions.
• To be able to think strategically and create clarity, have well-honed questioning and influencing skills.
• Confident presentation skills in communicating solutions and proposals across a wide range of stakeholder groups in a number of forums.

For more information on the Key Skills as well as the Qualifications and/or experience required, please refer to the Job Description attached.

Working for us

As well as adding real value to our service users and our communities, as an employer we recognise our employees are central in being able to achieve this. To recognise this we want to help support your development and provide an great place to work ensuring you can fulfil your full potential, have access to a range of benefits including:

• an excellent local government pension scheme
• generous holiday entitlement of 30 days (plus opportunity to buy additional leave)
• a range of flexible working options, depending on your job role

For a full list this can be found at our Rewards and Benefits page.

Further information

The reference number for this role is CRS00786.

For an informal conversation or for further information regarding the role, please contact Jo Bentley, Apprenticeships & L&D Commissioning Manager at . For issues or queries regarding your application please contact .

To apply, upload your CV and covering letter explaining the skills and experience you can bring to the role ensuring that any gaps in employment are covered in your CV. Please ensure you have saved the job description attached to the main advert on our website as, once the job has closed, you may not have the opportunity to download again.

West Sussex County Council is an equal opportunities employer committed to promoting an environment that is inclusive and free from all forms of unlawful or unfair discrimination and values the diversity of its people. We actively welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and take every possible step to ensure that no individual will be disadvantaged.

For information regarding your eligibility to apply for this role under our Disability or Veteran’s Guaranteed Interview Scheme, this can be found on our application help page.

Note for Recruitment Agencies: We prefer to hire people directly, but we do have a supplier list for when we need a helping hand. We’ll be in touch directly if we need you!

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