Location
London Borough of Hounslow

Hours
Full Time - 36 hours per week

Salary
£55,323 per annum

About the Role
The London Borough of Hounslow is seeking an experienced Training and Development Manager to join us on a permanent, full-time basis. This exciting role is ideal for a safeguarding professional passionate about developing high-quality practice and improving outcomes for children, young people and families. Working closely with the Principal Social Worker, you will lead the commissioning, coordination, delivery and evaluation of safeguarding training across Children's Specialist Services.

As the strategic lead for safeguarding learning and development, you will identify workforce development needs, design and implement innovative training solutions, and ensure learning opportunities reflect current legislation, research, national developments and learning from local and national reviews.

You will play a key role in driving practice improvement across Children's Services, supporting a culture of continuous learning and professional curiosity. Collaborating with senior leaders, practitioners and partner agencies, you will help shape and deliver workforce development priorities while ensuring commissioned training provides excellent value for money and measurable impact.

This role offers the opportunity to influence practice across the entire children's workforce, develop innovative learning approaches, and make a lasting contribution to safeguarding outcomes across Hounslow.

About Us
We are an outstanding council serving one of London’s most diverse boroughs. With visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we have built strong partnerships that transform how we serve our community. Hounslow is a place full of potential and we are committed to stepping up for our residents like never before.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
We live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. Equality, diversity and inclusion are at the heart of everything we do. We serve a diverse community and have a diverse workforce, committed to being an inclusive employer.

We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership, support thriving employee network groups, and provide learning and development programmes that promote ways of working to eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate candidates throughout the recruitment process.

Our Benefits
If you join us, you will have access to a range of employee benefits designed to support your wellbeing and career development.

Experience
- Proven experience in social work practice, safeguarding, learning and development, workforce development or professional standards environments is highly valued.
- Ability to provide high quality, reflective, analytical and evidence-based training to develop practice to the highest professional standards.
- Experience delivering safeguarding training that reflects current legislation, research, best practice and learning from reviews.
- Ability to analyse information from quality assurance mechanisms including performance data and audits, producing high quality reports for senior managers and partnerships.
- Experience managing resources within budgetary constraints, securing best value and cost effectiveness.

About You
- Strong professional thinking and research skills in children’s safeguarding and care, with the ability to implement this across the service.
- Ability to lead collaborative working across agencies and contribute to strategic workforce development priorities.
- Skilled in providing expert advice, guidance and support on safeguarding training and workforce development to managers and practitioners.
- Committed to supporting a culture of continuous learning and professional curiosity.
- Enthusiastic about influencing practice and developing innovative approaches to learning and development.

We encourage applications from candidates who meet most of the criteria, recognising that the perfect candidate does not exist. If you are passionate about making a difference and developing safeguarding practice, we welcome your application.

Qualifications
Relevant professional qualifications and experience in safeguarding, social work or workforce development are desirable but not explicitly stated as mandatory.