Learning and Development Portfolio Lead in Watford

Are you passionate about shaping high-quality, robust learning that enables safe, compassionate care and a skilled healthcare workforce? If so, join us as the Learning and Development Portfolio Lead to take ownership of Elysium Healthcare’s organisation-wide learning curriculum and content portfolio.

As the Learning and Development Portfolio Lead, you will be responsible for owning, governing, and continually enhancing the organisation-wide curriculum and associated learning content. This role ensures that Elysium Healthcare has a high-quality, accurate, up-to-date and consistently applied portfolio of learning materials that meet statutory and regulatory requirements, reflect Elysium’s values and care principles, and support a skilled, competent, and compassionate workforce.

Acting as the custodian of the learning portfolio, you will ensure strong version control, accessible and standardised content, and a disciplined approach to curriculum development. You will collaborate with clinical and subject matter experts, trainers, and Regional Learning and Development Partners to ensure all learning materials are validated, relevant, evidence-based, inclusive, digitally accessible, and aligned to Elysium’s strategic priorities.

It’s an exciting time to help shape the future of learning at Elysium Healthcare, ensuring high-quality development that supports compassionate, safe care. This is a hybrid role, with occasional travel to the office/Elysium sites as required.

Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities

• Own and govern Elysium Healthcare’s organisation-wide learning curriculum and portfolio, ensuring it is current, clinically accurate, compliant, and aligned to statutory, regulatory, and professional standards.
• Maintain strong curriculum governance, including quality assurance, structure, version control, approvals, archiving, and audit readiness.
• Lead the Learning Forum, bringing together key stakeholders to prioritise learning needs, and project manage the development of learning solutions through to launch, supported by subject matter experts.
• Ensure learning content is standardised, accessible, digitally optimised, and consistently presented and used across the organisation within the MEL Learning Management System.
• Lead the development, review, prioritisation, and continuous improvement of learning content in collaboration with clinical and subject matter experts.
• Ensure timely and accurate updates to mandatory, induction, and priority learning in line with legislative, clinical best-practice, policy, and regulatory change.
• Embed Elysium’s values, including trauma-informed care, dignity, inclusion, and compassion, across all learning materials.
• Work closely with Regional Learning and Development Partners, facilitators, and operational teams to ensure consistent and correct application of the curriculum.
• Maintain a streamlined, high-quality learning portfolio that meets organisational needs and supports effective workforce capability.
• Produce robust reporting and insights on curriculum quality, usage, compliance, gaps, and learning impact, supporting continuous improvement and inspection readiness.
• Drive ongoing improvement of Learning and Development practice through evaluation data, industry insight, and performance analysis.

To be successful in this role, you will need:

• Proven experience in managing Learning and Development portfolios or programmes within a complex organisation.
• Experience designing and delivering learning content (non-digital).
• Track record of implementing evaluation frameworks and reporting on learning outcomes.
• Experience coordinating mandatory and induction training programmes.
• Strong grasp of adult learning principles.
• Excellent organisational skills and the ability to manage workloads, tasks, and data effectively using Excel.
• Ability to design and govern learning frameworks, templates, and standards.
• Skilled in managing curriculum and learning content lifecycle.
• Up to date with trends in Learning and Development and instructional design.
• Certificate in Education or CIPD Learning and Development L5 or equivalent.
• Education and Training Award or equivalent.

What You’ll Get:

• Competitive Salary.
• The equivalent of 33 days annual leave (including bank holidays) - plus your birthday off and the option to buy additional annual leave, in our annual selection window.
• Career development and training to help you achieve your professional goals.
• Access to our Rewards & Benefits platform Ely-Vate; Your one-stop destination for everyday savings, exclusive benefits, and wellbeing hub!
• Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a healthy work-life balance.
• Access to Blue Light Card, which provides a range of exclusive offers and discounts.
• Life Assurance, for added peace of mind.
• Stream - instant access to earned wages when you need it, plus access to save, directly from your wages, alongside financial wellbeing support.
• 24/7 GP service and second medical opinion, to ensure you are the best you can be.
• Enhanced Maternity Package, so you can truly enjoy this special time.
• Pension contribution, to help secure your future.

About your next employer:

Elysium Healthcare has over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 90 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move. Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally.