Learning and Development Specialist| Remote with frequent travel required| Permanent| Up to £48k salary DOE
We are one of the UK’s leading independent hospital groups and the largest in terms of revenue. From our 39 hospitals and 33 clinics, medical centres and consulting rooms across England, Wales, and Scotland, we provide diagnostics, inpatient, day case and outpatient care in areas including orthopaedics, gynaecology, cardiology, neurology, oncology, and general surgery.
We also operate a network of private GPs and provide occupational health services to over 700 corporate clients. We are the principal independent provider by volume of knee and hip operations in the United Kingdom.
The group was founded with the acquisition and re-branding of 25 Bupa hospitals in 2007. Since then, Spire Healthcare has made significant capital investments in its estate and continues to deliver successful and award-winning clinical outcomes and high levels of patient satisfaction. Spire is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a member of the FTSE 250. We were the first private hospital provider to publish outcomes data on our website and we have received awards for our clinical quality and high levels of patient satisfaction.
Spire Healthcare is committed to the highest quality of patient care. Working in partnership with over 8,760 experienced consultants, we delivered tailored, personalised care to approximately 926,500 inpatients, outpatients, and day case patients in 2022.
Patients, consultants, and general practitioners trust Spire Healthcare to deliver the high-quality care they expect from a leading private healthcare provider. For us, it's more than just treating patients, it's about looking after people.
As a Learning and Development Specialist you will promote a culture of learning, using a pragmatic and blended approach. This role is responsible for high quality design and delivery of induction, mandatory, management and soft skill learning for all colleagues across Spire Healthcare. Therefore, enabling colleagues to perform at their best and improve our overall business performance.
Key Responsibilities:
- Supporting L&D in delivering the learning strategy, focussing on exceptional development and delivery across all our hospitals and corporate teams.
- Designing and delivering various learning activities including induction, soft skills and management development.
- Working with People Business Partners to undertake learning needs analysis, providing advice and guidance on learning needs and solutions.
- Collaborating with the team to develop a schedule of learning and training activities.
- Developing a cohort of internal colleagues to deliver learning, to broaden our ability to deliver training and learning across all our hospitals and corporate teams.
Key Requirements:
- Strong delivery and facilitation of a range of blended learning interventions and programmes – articulate, energetic and engaging, able to present well in both online and face to face learning environments.
- Knowledgeable in all elements of the training cycle and adult learning theories.
- Scoping and design of learning interventions across a range of induction and soft skills content, leveraging innovation and creative flair.
- Creation and delivery of train-the-trainer sessions, breaking down programme content in order that others can understand what and how to deliver different learning programmes.
- Effective consultancy skills, able to assess learning needs and undertake gap analysis.
- Coaching and mentoring experience, ideally with coaching qualification.
- Exceptional stakeholder management skills: able to engage across all levels and areas of the business, as well as collaborating with external providers and third-party suppliers.
- Highly proficient in the use of MS Office tools, particularly PowerPoint and Excel.
- Knowledge of working with different learning platforms/management systems.
- Resilient and adaptable, able to work with minimal supervision.
- CIPD Level 5 in Learning & Development preferred.
- Full UK driving license preferred.
Benefits:
We offer employed colleagues a competitive salary as well as a comprehensive benefits package which includes but is not limited to:
- 35 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays
- Employer and employee contributory pension with flexible retirement options
- ‘Spire for you’ reward platform - discount and cashback for over 1000 retailers
- Free wellness screening
- Private medical insurance
- Life assurance
Spire Healthcare is committed to creating an environment that will attract, retain, and motivate its people. We are an equal opportunities employer, committed to the health and wellbeing of all our colleagues and consultants.
We firmly believe that it is our people that make the business successful, and everyone should have the opportunity to work in a motivated team, free from discrimination on any grounds. We, therefore, are keen to receive and review applications from all candidates of under-represented groups who feel they offer the requisite skills.
For us, it's more than just treating patients; it's about looking after people.
