Facilitating Trainer for Your Voice Counts

Contract Type: Fixed term
Role Type: Employment
Hours: Part time
Application deadline:
Based: Hybrid
Salary: £23,693 Pro Rata
Salary Type: Fixed Salary
Location: Tyne and Wear
Role description: Project Support
About the role
Our Facilitating Trainer will co-deliver learning disability and autism awareness training alongside Expert Trainers who are autistic and/or have a learning disability.
In this role you will lead the training, and directly support our Expert Trainers to fully undertake their parts of the training. This will include ensuring we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate each Expert Trainer’s particular support needs, and supporting each trainer to properly prepare to deliver every training session.
You will ensure that participants enjoy a high quality training experience that raises awareness of the needs of people with learning disabilities and autistic people and the barriers they face, and positively challenges participants to consider how their own practice could be improved.
You will contribute to maintaining the ongoing quality of our training by regularly reviewing training as a team in order to rectify mistakes and incorporate best practice. You will positively and proactively respond to feedback, and will escalate concerns quickly so we can continue to deliver a quality product.
You will support our Expert Trainers to contribute to a wider community of practice,
Main Responsibilities:
In this role you will be expected to:
- Lead on the delivery of Oliver McGowan Tier 1 (online) and Tier 2 (in person) training using the training materials provided
- Adapt and improve training materials as required in order to continue to deliver high quality training
- Directly support our team of Expert Trainers (who are autistic and/or have a learning disability) to prepare for and co-deliver the training alongside you
- Work with our Admin team to ensure that all practical arrangements for delivering the training having been made ahead of the session – for example, ensuring transport, venue, technology, refreshments are all in place
- Problem solve issues as they arise to ensure participants benefit from a high quality training experience
- Work with our Expert Trainers to regularly review training as a team in order to rectify mistakes and incorporate best practice - respond positively and proactively to feedback, and escalate concerns promptly so we can continue to deliver a quality product
- Stay abreast of best practice and work with our wider training team to constantly improve what we deliver
- Support our Expert Trainers to contribute to a wider community of practice.
- Work with our wider training team to develop and deliver new training
This is not an exhaustive list of duties, and you will be expected to undertake other duties commensurate with the duties of the post as may be reasonably directed and/or as necessitated by your changing role within the organisation and the overall business objectives of the organisation.
Person Specification:
Just as our values are key to our ways of working, attitude is key to our staff team. We work in challenging, changing circumstances with a very vulnerable client group so we are looking for someone with excellent interpersonal skills, an ability to develop team working and who is empathetic and supportive but not afraid to challenge when challenge is needed.
You will:
- be an excellent communicator with an ability to adapt your approach to accommodate the needs of different audiences
- have experience of presenting to different audiences
- be adaptable, able to operate in different environments with an ability to problem solve and adapt your approach to meet the changing needs of participants and your co-trainers
- have good IT skills and be able to use programmes such as Microsoft Teams and PowerPoint. You will be confident setting up equipment such as laptops and projectors in order to deliver training.
- have an ability to develop team working, with a willingness to offer direct support to others, but the confidence to challenge positively when appropriate
- be able to work under your own initiative and with minimal direction.
- have good attention to detail
- understand the importance of evaluation and responding positively and proactively to feedback and look to constantly improve our training and the experience of participants
- have a demonstrable belief in the rights of people who use our services.
You may:
- have experience of directly supporting people with learning disabilities and /or autistic people
- have good understanding of the barriers and challenges faced by people with learning disabilities and/or autistic people
- have experience of developing and/or delivering training
- have demonstrable experience of making complex information easier to understand – for example, using Easy Read or graphic illustration
- have knowledge and experience of a range of health and social care services
- have experience of undertaking Person Centred Planning
- have a good working knowledge of the Mental Capacity Act, and initiatives that directly affect people with learning disabilities and/or autistic people, such as STOMP, STAMP, LEDER and Advanced Care Planning
If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you.
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