Trust Learning & Development (L&D) Coordinator

About us: The Special Partnership Trust is an ambitious, inspirational organisation dedicated to raising the bar for SEND education across the Southwest. We dare to be different, we invest deeply in our people, and we strive every day to help our young people, and our staff, become the very best versions of themselves.

The Role: You will play a central role in designing, coordinating and promoting high‑quality learning experiences for colleagues across the Trust. This is a varied, impactful position combining L&D coordination, digital learning design, apprenticeship administration, event organisation and HR support. A key part of the role is supporting our Trust‑wide Learning Communities - specialist professional networks that bring colleagues together to share expertise, strengthen SEND practice and drive collaborative improvement. You will coordinate meeting schedules, manage communications, monitor attendance, prepare agendas and resources, and work closely with SEND Advisors to ensure each Learning Community runs smoothly and achieves its purpose. Your work will help create a consistent, high‑quality professional development experience across all schools in the Trust. You will help build a culture of continuous learning by developing engaging resources, maintaining effective systems, supporting leadership and workforce development initiatives, and ensuring colleagues have access to meaningful professional development throughout their employment.

Key Responsibilities:

• CPD Coordination: Support delivery of the Trust’s CPD strategy and curate role‑based learning pathways.
• Learning Design: Create blended learning resources, toolkits, guides and digital content.
• Training Delivery: Facilitate workshops, inductions and development sessions.
• Apprenticeship Administration: Manage DAS processes, monitor levy usage and support apprentices.
• Learning Communities: Coordinate Trust‑wide SEND Learning Communities, meetings and communications.
• HR Support: Provide first‑line HR support, recruitment administration and onboarding coordination.
• Compliance & Reporting: Monitor mandatory training, follow up compliance and produce reports.

About you: L&D or HR experience in a training, education or administrative role. Strong organisation, communication and stakeholder engagement skills. Confidence using Microsoft Office 365 and digital learning tools. Ability to analyse data, maintain accurate records and produce reports. A proactive, collaborative and customer‑focused approach. Commitment to inclusion, wellbeing and SEND.

Desirable: CIPD Level 3, experience designing training, apprenticeship knowledge, LMS experience.

Our Total Reward Offer: The Special Partnership Trust recognises the importance of developing a properly implemented People Strategy to underpin the overall strategic aims of the Trust. Our People Strategy is designed to help us attract prospective high calibre candidates, as well as drive engagement, productivity and retention of our high performing and high potential employees. It reflects our belief in putting our people first. This does not mean putting our learners second. It is based on the philosophy that if we create a positive and rewarding work environment, if our staff feel motivated, well managed and well supported, they in turn will provide the best possible outcome for our learners. We recognise that our total reward offer has got to consist of more than just money. We seek to provide our staff with a diverse range of benefits that support their day to day needs both at work and outside of work. These include generous leave entitlements and pension scheme as well as access to health/wellbeing tools, training & development, career pathways and opportunities to ensure they feel valued.

Safeguarding: The Special Partnership Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to the satisfactory completion of checks and references, including an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. In accordance with guidance in Keeping Children Safe in Education; the Trust will undertake an online search of all shortlisted candidates.