Specialist Support Trainer - Social Care in Stoke-on-Trent

Lifeways Group, one of the UK’s largest providers of specialist support services for people with diverse and often complex needs, is on a revolutionary journey to become the Care Provider of Choice. We are currently undergoing a significant transformation, focused on enhancing our processes, technology, and ways of working to empower our teams to deliver the best possible care.

As a Specialist Support Trainer, you will be integral to this transformation, helping to equip our staff with the skills and knowledge they need to excel. You will be expected to deliver a wide range of specialist learning opportunities supporting new staff at induction through to refreshing the knowledge and skills of existing staff in topics such as positive behaviour support, physical intervention training (in line with the Restraint Reduction Network Training Standards), and person specific conditions.

This role is unique as we are really looking for someone with a passion for delivering great coaching/training. Lifeways will invest in you and support your professional development through specialist training qualifications, enabling you to become training leads in certain subject areas such as Autism, Acquired Brain Injury, and Mental Health. You will also work in partnership with the Practitioner to identify training needs and design required training solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Motivating and inspiring learners to achieve and develop their knowledge and skills.
• Planning and delivering effective learning activities for diverse groups in a safe and inclusive environment.
• Promoting a variety of learning approaches to suit the needs of the learners and the organisation.
• Demonstrating an understanding of the importance of Positive Behaviour Support and least restrictive practices.
• Supporting those learners who may have specific needs and working creatively to overcome any barriers to learning.
• Enabling learners to share responsibility for their own learning, setting goals that challenge where appropriate.
• Providing constructive and timely feedback to learners and to Operational Managers.

Essential Experience, Skills & Qualifications:

• Minimum 2 years’ continuous employment in support or care roles in health care, social care or education.
• Awareness of theoretical concepts, approaches and strategies of positive behaviour support (PBS).
• Experience in delivering training solutions OR coaching, facilitating or teaching from either a social care or educational background.
• The ideal person will be positive, resilient, and dynamic with excellent training delivery and presentation skills.

Continued Professional Development:

Lifeways will invest in you as our Specialist Trainer. The ideal candidate will hold or have a willingness to work towards Training of Trainer programmes in Physical Intervention Systems (such as NAPPI and PROACT-SCIPr-UK®) and an accredited training qualification e.g. Level 3 Award in Education and Training (QCF) or equivalent. Current Emergency First Aid at Work certificate (which includes immediate life support) or willingness to achieve within a specified timescale. Able to maintain confidentiality and deal with situations in a sensitive manner.

The above is the minimum criteria needed to apply for this role and applications will be shortlisted based on the above. At Lifeways we value our colleagues and work hard to develop their skills through the provision of training and support. We are expanding and so there are real opportunities for career development.