Learning and Development Facilitator

Description:

Company Description

Genomics England partners with the NHS to provide whole genome sequencing diagnostics. We also equip researchers to find the causes of disease and develop new treatments – with patients and participants at the heart of it all.

Our mission is to continue refining, scaling, and evolving our ability to enable others to deliver genomic healthcare and conduct genomic research.

We are accelerating our impact and working with patients, doctors, scientists, government and industry to improve genomic testing, and help researchers access the health data and technology they need to make new medical discoveries and create more effective, targeted medicines for everybody.

We're hiring a Learning and Development Facilitator to lead and facilitate our training initiatives in our new Genomics England’s Leadership and Management Academy. You'll design, implement, iterate and project manage learning programs, focusing on filling skill gaps and nurturing talent. This role involves project management and overseeing our Leadership and Management Academy to grow future leaders at Genomics England. You'll be very hands on in this role, L&D is a small, super busy team and you will collaborate closely with the Head of L&D and LMS Coordinator in a dynamic, supportive environment.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

Scope, design, facilitate, evaluate, and administrate various development programmes (including executive and leadership training, coaching, new manager toolkit, online training)
Manage and grow Genomics England's Management Academy in line with Genomics England's leadership behaviours and competency framework
Evaluate outcomes of learning activities and ensure training effectiveness and return on investment (ROI)
Empower employees, managers and leaders to feel ownership of their professional and personal growth through impactful programming and delivery of programmes, toolkits and other resources
Facilitate learning programmes and create relevant content to address learning needs, with excellent facilitator ratings
Manage the communication, and administration of scheduling and registration to track employee training participation and progress It's also important that you are able to attend our Canary Wharf offices on average 3 days a week, in order to facilitate training sessions in person.

Essential experience we are looking for:

End-to-end training management, including discovery, scoping, stakeholder liaison, live training delivery, advertising, participant onboarding, and feedback gathering.
Facilitation skills: comfortable, experienced, natural and flexible, able to adapt to audience reactions (up to 30 people).
Program management: proficient in project management, including working with suppliers.
Flexibility: able to be in the office to facilitate up to 3 days a week.
Tech-savvy: capable of running 360 reports, managing a LMS, proficient in Excel, PowerPoint, presenting on screens, and troubleshooting technical issues.
Quick thinking: self-driven and solutions-oriented, adept at thinking on your feet.

Qualifications

Coaching qualification
MBTI Practitioner or similar

Additional Information

Salary from £53,000.

Being an integral part of such a meaningful mission is extremely rewarding in itself, but in order to support our people, we’re continually improving our benefits package. We pride ourselves on investing in our people and supporting them to achieve their career goals, as well as offering a benefits package including: 

30 days’ holiday (plus bank holidays), with additional days for long service awards
A generous pension scheme of up to 15% combined contribution
Life Assurance (3 x salary)
Individual learning budgets for every colleague, a Blinkist account and a wide variety of courses on our portal
A wide variety of wellness benefits including Gympass, a Headspace account, free weekly Yoga classes
Enhanced maternity & paternity benefits
Blended working arrangementsTalk to our Talent Team and find out how a career with Genomics England will benefit you.

#LI-Hybrid

Genomics England is actively committed to providing and supporting an inclusive environment that promotes equity, diversity and inclusion best practice both within our community and in any other area where we have influence. We are proud of our diverse community where everyone can come to work and feel welcomed and treated with respect regardless of any disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, or social background.

Genomics England’s policies of non-discrimination and equity and will be applied fairly to all people, regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, being pregnant or recently becoming a parent, race, religion or beliefs, sex or sexual orientation, length of service, whether full or part-time or employed under a permanent or a fixed-term contract or any other relevant factor. 

Genomics England does not tolerate any form of discrimination, harassment, victimisation or bullying at work. Such behaviour is contrary to , undermines our mission and core values and diminishes the dignity, respect and integrity of all parties. 

Genomics England operates a blended working model as we know our people appreciate the flexibility. We expect most people to come into the office 2 times each month as a minimum. However, this will vary according to role and will be agreed with your team leader. There is no expectation that staff will return to the office full time unless they want to, however, some of our roles require you to be on site full time e.g., lab teams, reception team. 

Our teams and squads have, and will continue to, reflect on what works best for them to work together successfully and have the freedom to design working patterns to suit, beyond the minimum. Our office locations are Canary Wharf, Cambridge and Leeds.

As part of our recruitment process, all successful candidates are subject to a Standard Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.  We therefore require applicants to disclose any previous offences at point of application, as some unspent convictions may mean we are unable to proceed with your application due to the nature of our work in healthcare