Social Care Assistant Trainer

Job Category: Social Care.

Job location: Trinity Road, Bootle, Merseyside, L20 3NJ, Monmouthshire County Council.

Hours per week: 18.5.

Start date: Immediate start.

Salary: £16.10 per hour.

DISCLOSURE AND BARRING SERVICE (DBS) CHECK: Appointment to this post is exempt from Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and is subject to the following DBS check Enhanced with Both Children/Adults Barred List Checks.

RESPONSIBLE TO: Workforce Development Manager.

WELSH LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT: Welsh language skills are desirable.

The Purpose of this Role: To ensure the social care workforce have the appropriate skills, knowledge and experience to work in social care within our county.

Expectation and Outcomes of this Role:

• To support the delivery of quality social care services through ensuring high quality learning & development opportunities are delivered to the social care workforce.
• To support the registration and re-registration of the social care workforce with Social Care Wales.

Your responsibilities are to:

• Deliver engaging learning opportunities that reflect Monmouthshire’s core values.
• Support with the embedding of new approaches to learning and development by providing both informal and planned learning sessions.
• Deliver learning and development opportunities across a diverse range of subjects.
• Work jointly with the social care workforce development officers and training organiser to deliver learning and development that is essential for both children’s and adult’s social care workforces.
• Ensure equality, diversity and inclusion when delivering all learning.
• Facilitate the organisation of training events and support related administration such as booking venues and completing registers of attendance.
• Participate in the regular collection and recording of training data.
• Facilitate learning through a number of platforms including face to face, digital and e-learning.
• Deliver learning and support when required to develop social care workforce’s essential skills in literacy, numeracy and ICT.
• Communicate and engage effectively, building and maintaining positive working relationships.
• Manage your own workload and respond to deadlines.
• Evaluate the impact of learning in partnership with the workforce development team and adapt to meet ongoing need.
• Be flexible and able to adjust learning to meet the needs of participants including evening and weekend delivery within Monmouthshire and wider locations where needed.
• Work with the Social care workforce Development Manager and other trainers to source appropriate resources and training materials.
• Value and be passionate about your own personal and professional development by seeking out appropriate opportunities.
• Carry out your role openly and honestly and develop trusting relationships.

Knowledge:

• Knowledge of Social Services and Well-Being (Wales) Act 2014 and how this is applied to practice.
• Knowledge of Monmouthshire’s policies relating to social care e.g. All Wales Manual Handling, MCC medication policy.
• In depth understanding of the social care profession including the Code of Professional Practice for Social Care and the registration process for Social Care Wales.

Skills:

• Successful completion of train the trainer qualification or equivalent.
• Successful completion of Social Care qualification.
• A confident and competent communicator with the ability to adapt communication style to suit the audience and the environment.
• Proven skills in application of Microsoft Office.
• Ability to use different platforms and modalities to facilitate learning.
• Ability to deliver with confidence and to ensure your audience have confidence in you as a training provider.
• Ability to work unsupervised and to plan and prioritise workload appropriately, keeping to set deadlines and being productive and proactive.

Self Development:

• Ability to identify own learning and development needs and keep up to date with continual professional development requirements.
• Ability and willingness to act upon evaluative feedback.
• Ensuring you prepare effectively for supervision and take ownership of actively contributing to your own personal development.

Experience:

• Experience of working within a front line social care or health service area.
• Experience of delivering training to a social care workforce including Manual Handling and First Aid.
• Full driver’s licence, able to drive with a car covered by business insurance.

Additional Information: Jobs are provided by the Find a Job Service from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).