Job Description

Learning & Development Partner – Children’s Services

Home-based (with regular travel and overnight stays – area as advertised)40 hours per weekc£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. xcunqrw

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.