Social Care Assistant Trainer

Job Category:   Social Care Qualified

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;

Social care workforce Development Team �Who are we?

We are part of the Social Care and Health Directorate in Monmouthshire. We ensure all social care workforce and commissioned providers in our county have the opportunity to access learning and development that enables them to deliver high quality services that meet current best practice.

SAFEGUARDING:

Child and Adult Safeguarding are key priorities for the Council. We aim to support children and adults at risk to be as safe as they can and to fulfil their potential. All Council employees and volunteers are responsible for playing their part in the well-being, safety and protection of children and adults at risk. All employees and volunteers will be trained to the appropriate level of safeguarding and have a duty to fulfil their personal responsibilities for safeguarding.

Our Purpose:-

We support the Social Care and Health directorate to identify their learning and developments needs and seek to source, develop, organise and facilitate these opportunities in a way that is bespoke to service needs and in line with local, regional and national requirements.

The Purpose of this Role:- 

�    To ensure the Social care social care workforce have the appropriate skills, knowledge and experience to work in Social care within in our county. 

Expectation and Outcomes of this Role:- 

�    You will work closely with the workforce development officers and training organiser to deliver learning opportunities for our directorate and external partners across Monmouthshire. 

�    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 reflects 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. 

�    You will work with colleagues locally and deliver training to the social care Workforce both within their place of work or another suitable space across the area. 

�  nsure equality, diversity and inclusion when delivering all learning. 

�    To facilitate the organisation of training events and support related administration such as booking venues and completing registers of attendance. 

�    To participate in the regular collection and recording of training data. 

�    You will be able to facilitate Learning through a number of platforms including face to face, digital and e-learning. 

�    You will deliver learning and support when required to develop social care workforce�s essential skills in literacy numeracy and ICT. 

�    You will have the ability to communicate and engage effectively, and be confident in building and maintaining positive working relationships. 

�    You will have good IT and administrative skills, be able to manage your own workload and respond to deadlines. 

�    Continually evaluate the impact of learning in partnership with the Mon workforce development team and be able to adapt to meet ongoing need. 

�    You will 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. 

�    You will work with the Social care workforce Development Manager and other trainers to source appropriate resources and training materials. 

�    You will value, and be passionate about, your own personal and professional development by seeking out appropriate opportunities. 

�    You will carry out your role openly and honestly and develop trusting relationships. 

�    You will ensure you are up to date with all mandatory training. 

�    You will be expected to maintain safe working practices at all times for self and others in accordance with the authority�s policy statement on Health and Safety at Work. 

�    Continue to be part of contributing towards regional collaboration and partnership working where required in line with the Monmouthshire business model. 

�    You will ensure you carry out your own professional development to ensure you hold the most up to date skills, knowledge and experience related to the role. 

Here�s what we can provide you with:-

�    Working as part of a supportive, cohesive, dedicated and caring team 

�    A Local Government Pension and Local Authority Benefits 

�    Excellent annual leave entitlement 

�    Flexible working arrangements including agile working and flexible hours to support work life balance 

�    Working in a culture of self development with continuing professional development 

�    A committed, dedicated and innovative leadership team 

�    Opportunity to develop Welsh Language Skills 

�    Would be open to considering this as an internal or external secondement (with service approval)

�    The opportunity to develop Welsh language skills.


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 registration Process for Social Care Wales.          

Cultural awareness          

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 use of a car covered by business insurance.