Training and Development Officer
Post: Training & Development Officer
Service: North Region of Scotland
Based: the role will cover our services throughout the North region of Scotland
Hours: 37 hours per week
Salary: £34,270 - £38,381
Contract Permanent
Turning Point Scotland
Turning Point Scotland specialises in supporting people facing the most complex and challenging situations. Our ‘people centred’ ethos places the people we support first in our thinking and ensures that our staff convert their passion into great services. TPS delivers improvement in Scotland’s social care sector through high quality services, leadership and innovation. If you have experience of working in the care sector and can embrace the values of Turning Point Scotland we want to hear from you.
Turning Point Scotland’s Training and Development department work nationally to support more than 40 services throughout Scotland to deliver the best possible care and support to the people in our services. This includes a diverse range of services and training programmes across homelessness, housing support, mental health, justice, forensic services, alcohol and other drugs, learning disability and physical conditions such as Huntington’s Disease. We work with people with multiple and diverse support needs and believe that all people who use our services should be treated as equal and active citizens, treated with compassion, dignity, respect and an understanding of their needs. We work to train our staff to carry out their role to a high standard and ensure services are delivered safely, appropriately and provide the best possible care for the people we support.
This role will work across and the post-holder will have responsibility for the training and development needs across a wide geographical area and a diverse range of services. Full details of this role can be viewed on the attached Job Role Profile. Click here
Benefits package
We are a large, stable national provider and a charity. As we are not for profit there is ongoing investment into our staff training and development, a good GPP pension scheme, and annual leave and sick pay that significantly exceeds the statutory minimum.
We also have a brilliant employee assistance programme (independent advice, information and support online, by phone and in person), a group reward scheme to help your money go further and access to a contributory ‘hospital’ fund. We have a relationship with a credit union and promote saving directly from salary.
We aim to provide a working environment where opinions and ideas are valued and arrangements are in place to ensure that there is a high level of staff representation and that people are encouraged to make their views heard and to participate at service and organisational levels.
As a leading national social care provider our breakthrough and forward-thinking models of practice and service are well recognised. Examples of this recently have been: Housing First, Psychologically informed environments (PIE), Citizenship and both Scottish and International research and evaluation of a range of projects. We work across a wide range of types of services and the organisation provides pathways for development: a career development workshop; appraisal; learning and training options; internal forums and project groups; and opportunities for internal secondment, temporary acting up or sideways roles and career progression.
This opportunity is closed to applications.