Learning & Development Lead

Do you have a passion to help others be the best they can?

Are you a Learning and Development specialist ready to take the next step with a great company? Or perhaps an HR practitioner with an interest in focusing more closely on training? If so, we'd love to hear from you. We have an exciting role available within our Learning & Development team to help colleagues at Beyond Housing be the best they can be.

Reporting to and working closely with the Learning & Development Manager, you will be an enthusiastic and motivated team player with a real passion for learning and development and its transformational potential. You will contribute to the development and delivery of engaging, innovative learning solutions which meet the needs of our diverse teams, helping to create the right culture and environment in which colleagues can learn and grow. In addition to supporting training needs analysis, you will have a strong focus on continuous improvement, and will evaluate the success of training interventions, ensuring they continue to meet the needs of the business and colleagues to deliver an excellent customer experience.

Please note the salary for this role does not yet include our April 2023 pay award as we are currently in negotiations with our trade unions.

Ian Guy is our Learning & Development Manager, so if you fancy an informal chat about the role, you can call him on (phone number removed).

Closing date for applications is Monday 8 January 2024, applications will be reviewed throughout the duration of the advert and we may close it early should enough applications be received. We are not working with recruitment agencies on this vacancy.

Who is Beyond Housing?

Our story began in 2018 and we d like you to be part of our future. With over 15,000 homes, 30,000 customers and 750 colleagues, we're changing lives every day. Our mission is simple; to provide homes customers want, services they value, delivered by people who care. We want to help our customers and communities to succeed and thrive. Considerate, collaborative, ambitious and accountable that s just our way of life.

Our offices are more than just the space we work in. We encourage inspiration, creativity and productivity in a relaxed and comfortable environment. We re looking for people who are travelling in the same direction when it comes to the way we work, live our values and deliver our services. Our reward and recognition offer is pretty impressive too!

We have ambitious plans for further growth and impact, and we need the right people to take this leap with us. It may be challenging at times, but you can be assured that it is going to be rewarding and inspiring. After all, we are changing lives, every day, in all that we do.

Our values and extremely important to us and we want all our colleagues to really live our values every day, we are looking for candidates who show they have the skills to do the role and are aligned with our values.

At Beyond Housing, we are committed to ensuring that all applicants are treated fairly throughout our recruitment and selection processes and are not discriminated against on the grounds of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

Why choose us?

The team here at Beyond Housing genuinely care about the work we do to transform the lives of our customers. We think this is a pretty big reason to love your career at Beyond Housing, and that s why our benefits package shows Beyond Housing genuinely cares about its teams too.

Our people are our best asset, so we want to make sure your wellbeing is the best it can be. Our responsibilities as an employer extend beyond the workplace, we want to make sure we can help and support you when you need it most.

So here goes:

• Flexible working patterns to suit your commitments
• Generous holiday entitlement
• Impressive salaries with incremental pay increases for most colleagues
• Commitment to paying the Real Living Wage for our staff
• Competitive pension scheme with generous employer contributions
• Life assurance to look after your loved ones
• Health plan
• A much needed caffeine boost with free tea and coffee (and cordial for when you re feeling parched)
• Cycle to work scheme (if you ve got the legs for it)
• Annual cost of living pay rise
• Agile working to give you that positive work life balance.
• Rather not work the normal 9 - 5? If you have a working pattern that you would prefer, please discuss this with us and we might be able to support.