Overview
What does a Learning & Development Partner do at Southwark?
This role plays a crucial role in shaping the future of our workforce within the Housing department. Taking a lead on our comprehensive Learning & Development program, you’ll be collaborating with various services across our Housing teams to design and implement training solutions that meet our current and future needs.
Building and maintaining effective relationships with senior managers, colleagues across the Housing directorate and partners, you’ll ensure impactful and sustainable learning outcomes for our people. Your expertise will be crucial in maximising digital technology to support the council’s strategic learning and development.
Key responsibilities of the role include:
- Leading on the implementation of the Governments Competence and Conduct Standard, across the Housing Directorate
- Developing a detailed learning matrix covering all roles within the Housing department, aligning with the Council’s workforce strategy.
- Planning, delivering, and monitoring training programs that foster behavioural changes across the organisation
- Providing expert advice to senior managers, HR, Organisational Development colleagues to ensure the successful implementation and embedding of learning programs.
Who are we looking for?
We’re looking for a talented Learning & Development professional who is passionate about developing talent and driving organisational growth. You’ll have a strong understanding of developing programs to support Housing Service roles and technical requirements of services within a local authority or Housing organisation.
You’ll have the proven ability to design and deliver L&D programs that support business-focussed outcomes and align with both short and long term strategies.
Key information to evidence in your application:
- Experience working as an L&D professional in a large, complex organisation
- Proven ability to design and deliver L&D programs that support business-focused outcomes and align with both short and long term strategies
- Skills in interpreting data to prepare and present clear, actionable insights to senior leaders and managers.
About Southwark
We are the largest local authority social landlord in London, managing 55,000 homes lived in by 40% of Southwark’s residents. We are home to over 18,300 businesses including iconic London venues and social enterprises and we have a young, diverse and growing population.
At Southwark we are committed to making our borough just and fair and are taking positive action to tackle inequalities.  Our residents and communities are our greatest asset and the passion we have for Southwark is shared by millions of Londoners who enjoy our outstanding cultural offer, use our hospitals and attend our universities. Our refreshed borough plan and focus on Southwark Stands Together, (which is our work with Southwark’s communities and the council’s staff to tackle racism, injustice and inequality) underpins all that we do.
Additional details
As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you’ll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the below criteria:
* Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
* Are currently in care, or have previously been in care
* If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition
We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together programme. We particularly welcome applications from members of the Black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.
Benefits and more information:
In your role, we want you to feel supported, challenged and rewarded. You will benefit from our family-friendly policies including flexible working, home working, and a local government pension scheme, plus many other staff benefits. You will join a motivated, driven and supportive team that strives for excellence and values its members. You will also be part of a successful and high-achieving development team that is making a real difference to the lives of residents in the borough. For more information about the wide variety of benefits you can take advantage of please visit our Staff Benefits page.
Salary: Negotiable
