Location: Home-based with regular travel across the country
Salary: £37,000 - £44,000 pro rata
Contract: 6‑month fixed term, Full-Time
Reporting to: Head of Learning & Development
About The Role
We are looking for a Learning & Development Business Partner to join our People Team on a 6‑month fixed-term contract, supporting the delivery of high‑quality learning across Rethink Mental Illness and Mental Health UK during a key period of organisational activity and change.
Working closely with colleagues across the organisation, you will build a strong understanding of learning needs, using insight, data and stakeholder relationships to design, deliver and embed learning solutions that align with our people and organisational strategy.
This is a home‑based role with regular national travel. Face‑to‑face delivery, visibility and in‑person relationship‑building are essential, particularly when delivering training, supporting managers and working alongside operational teams.
Responsibilities
Learning design and culture
- Working with stakeholders to identify learning needs and recommend appropriate, cost‑effective solutions
- Designing accessible, engaging digital learning and high‑quality facilitated training
- Supporting the development of a positive organisational learning culture and enabling managers to deliver localised learning
- Supporting the management of the Learning Management System (LMS), maintaining accurate compliance data and easy access to learning
Training delivery and facilitation
- Delivering training across a wide range of subjects, with a strong focus on health & social care and management development
- Facilitating complex learning sessions and discussions with colleagues at all levels
- Travelling regularly to locations across England for face‑to‑face training delivery, team meetings and stakeholder engagement
Stakeholder management
- Building trusted relationships with stakeholders at all levels
- Providing expert learning and development advice to working groups and managers
- Engaging sensitively and adaptively with diverse teams
- Managing relationships with external training providers to ensure quality and value for money
Compliance, quality and monitoring
- Ensuring learning meets legislative, regulatory and organisational requirements
- Monitoring feedback and impact to ensure high standards and continuous improvement
- Supporting reporting and providing transparent information on learning compliance
Project and organisational development
- Contributing L&D and OD expertise to organisation‑wide initiatives
- Taking a leading role in cross‑organisational people projects, ensuring delivery against agreed aims and timescales
Person Specification
You will be a credible, confident learning professional who enjoys working collaboratively and thrives in a fast‑paced, purpose‑driven environment.
Essential Knowledge And Experience
- Extensive experience in training design and delivery
- Experience working in a charity or health and social care environment (ideally mental health)
- Strong understanding of adult learning principles and organisational change
- Proven experience using data and insight to shape learning solutions
- Experience supporting managers through coaching, facilitation or skills development
- A full UK driving licence and access to a suitable vehicle, with the ability and willingness to travel regularly
Skills And Attributes
- Confident and engaging trainer and facilitator
- Strong stakeholder management and relationship‑building skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Pragmatic, solution‑focused and able to balance strategy with delivery
- Highly organised with strong problem‑solving and workload‑management skills
Desirable
- Experience delivering complex, cross‑organisational projects
- A qualification in learning, facilitation or L&D (e.g. CIPD Level 3–5, Award in Education & Training)
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Why Work With Rethink Mental Illness?
Benefits
At Rethink Mental Illness, we believe that when you feel supported, you can make the biggest difference. That’s why we offer a range of benefits to help you thrive:
- Inclusive Culture: Join staff networks that champion diversity and inclusion.
- Wellbeing Support: Access our Wellbeing Hub, Employee Assistance Programme, and the Unmind mental health app.
- Recognition & Rewards: Enjoy discounts, cashback offers, and celebrate achievements through our PULSE platform.
- Flexible Working & Generous Leave: Starting at 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays and your birthday off), with options to buy or sell extra days.
- Learning & Development: Grow your career with structured onboarding and training opportunities.
- Financial & Family Support: Contributory pension scheme, enhanced family leave, and travel benefits like season ticket loans and cycle-to-work schemes.
- Referral Bonus: Earn up to £300 for introducing someone to our team.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion
Diversity is important to us, and we appreciate difference through difference, inclusiveness and belonging. It gives us a deeper understanding of the world, our society and the diverse communities we’re working with. By including everyone, we are able to draw on the unique experiences and expertise of our people to help shape and enrich our workplace and improve our services. One way we are doing is through our valued staff networks which play a critical and highly valued role in keeping us focused on creating a diverse, inclusive and engaged employer. We recognise and support staff networks and support groups for our ethnically diverse and LGBTQIA+ colleagues. We are also proud to have been awarded Disability Confident Employer status and are a signatory to the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter.
We aim for our workforce to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve; for those who work for us to feel heard, valued and feel they belong; and for our work to help tackle wider mental health inequalities. We therefore actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including applicants with lived experience of mental illness, those who are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer or Questioning, Intersex, Asexual and any other gender identity not expressed here (LGBTQIA+); people who are neurodiverse, have a health condition, or a disability or hidden disability and people from an ethnically diverse background - regardless of your age, religious or spiritual belief, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, political view or socio-economic status.
Becoming a truly anti-racist organisation
We have an ambition of become a truly anti-racist employer, campaigning organisation and service provider - and in our efforts to influence policy and wider societal factors impacting on mental health set out in our anti-racist statement . We have designed a multi-year anti-racist programme of work contained in our Race Equality Action Plan which demonstrates our intention to hold ourselves accountable and be judged on our progress on becoming a truly anti-racist organisation.
