L&D Partner Newcastle

Learning & Development Partner - Children's Services

Home-based (with regular travel and overnight stays - area as advertised)

40 hours per week

c£35,000 (dependent on experience)

Turn Experience into Impact. Shape the Future of Children's Residential Care.

Are you an experienced residential children's practitioner ready to step into a role where you can influence practice at scale? Do you have the credibility, confidence and passion to inspire others to deliver exceptional care?

At CareTech, we're looking for a dynamic Learning and Development Partner to join our Children's Services team. Reporting to the Head of Learning & Development, you'll play a pivotal role in developing, delivering and enhancing training that equips our teams to provide safe, nurturing and high-quality care.

This isn't just a training role - it's your opportunity to shape standards, embed best practice and directly improve outcomes for children and young people.

What You'll Do

You'll design and deliver engaging, practical training rooted in real-world residential experience, ensuring our staff are confident, capable and compliant.

Training will include (but isn't limited to):

• Welcome to CareTech
• Safeguarding Children
• Pillars (our internal positive behaviour approach)
• CSE & Missing From Home
• Emergency First Aid at Work
• Medication
• Ligature Awareness

You'll also:

• Collaborate with the L&D team to create impactful, standards-aligned learning
• Use your residential experience to bring credibility and practical insight to every session
• Assess and evaluate training to continuously improve quality
• Maintain accurate training records using Myrus
• Stay ahead of legislation and best practice developments
• Act as a Subject Lead in a specialist area
• Champion health & safety, equality, diversity and CareTech's core values

About You

You're an experienced children's residential professional (minimum 3 years) who understands the realities of the sector - and wants to elevate it.

You'll bring:

• In-depth knowledge of legislation, safeguarding and residential best practice
• Confidence delivering or facilitating learning (trainer experience desirable)
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Excellent organisation and IT skills
• The ability to influence, challenge and inspire
• A flexible approach with willingness to travel
• A full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle

A teaching qualification is desirable - but your practical experience, credibility and passion for developing others are essential.

Why Join Us?

• Competitive salary (£35,000 DOE)
• Autonomy and variety in a home-based role
• The chance to shape practice across multiple services
• A supportive, forward-thinking L&D team
• Real opportunity to influence outcomes for children and young people

If you're ready to move from delivering care to developing the people who deliver it - we want to hear from you.

Apply now and help raise the standard of residential children's care.