Housing & Homelessness - Training and Development Officer
Housing & Homelessness - Training and Development Officer
This position is a 18 month fixed term contract.
About us
Tower Hamlets is one of London’s most diverse, vibrant boroughs. It’s a melting pot of creativity, enterprise and cultural life that brings the best of London together in just eight square miles. It’s also a borough of contrasts, and as a Council, we know that Tower Hamlets is on a vital journey of improvement. There are tough challenges we need to tackle, but with that comes a unique opportunity to make a real impact. We’re changing – rapidly. This is a place where people make things happen. Where everyone works together with zeal, passion and pride. As an employer, we can offer a generous annual leave package, competitive pension and flexible working.
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About the role
This is an exciting role in which you will be responsible for designing and coordinating a range of training and development activities for staff in the council’s Housing Options service. In doing so you will ensure that staff develop and maintain the essential skills and knowledge to undertake their roles successfully. You will assess the training needs of staff, develop and commission training programmes and evaluate the effectiveness of the training provision.
A confident, experienced, and adaptable self-starter, able to work proactively and on your own initiative, you will relish the opportunity to contribute to service improvements. You will possess good knowledge in developing learning activities to meet specific quality standards and how to work with providers to commission and deliver appropriate training.
The job description and how to apply can be found at TowerHamlets.Jobs
For a confidential discussion please contact Conor Lewis, Assistant Transformation Project Manager – conor.lewis@towerhamlets.gov.uk.
Additional Details
Tower Hamlets vision for our borough is that: people are aspirational, independent and have equal access to opportunities; we are a borough that our residents are proud of and love to live in; and we are a dynamic, outcomes-based council using digital innovation and partnership working to respond to the changing needs of our borough. We want people who aspire to our TOWER values: Together; Open; Willing; Excellent; Respect.
Tower Hamlets has a zero-tolerance approach to, and works to eradicate, all forms of discrimination on the basis of race, sex, disability, age, religion or belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital status, status as a civil partner, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy and maternity and looks to employ a diverse workforce representative of those groups. We recognise that people can also be disadvantaged by their social and economic circumstances, so we will work to eliminate discrimination and disadvantage caused by social class.
We welcome applicants interested in flexible working arrangements and also applicants who live in the borough.