Learning and Development Officer (Restorative Practice Focus) - Internal

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Kirklees
Corporate Strategy, Commissioning & Public Health
Office of Chief Executive
Learning & Organisation Development
37
1
High Street Buildings, Huddersfield
Temporary, Secondment
Temporary up to January 2022
9-11
£26,999 - £35,934

This job is internally restricted. To apply for this job you must be an employee of the Council for the duration of the recruitment process – up to and including the start date. You must also be a substantive employee (or an employee with 12 months continuous service or more) of the Council or an Apprentice. Please note that if you work for an Academy you are not an employee of the Council.  

Kirklees is committed to working restoratively with people not doing to, or for them.  Our priorities for people, partners and place all reflect our restorative approach.  We know we have many challenges over the coming 12 months to support our employees and communities and we know that working in a restorative way will be essential to aid recovery. This is our year of confidence, so we are growing the range of support available to help us achieve our ambitions.

Are you passionate about restorative practice? Do you want to support the development of our approach across Kirklees? Would you like to develop your restorative practice skills and ways of being?

What is involved?

You will join the Learning and Organisational Development Team, and work alongside other members of the team who are focussing on supporting the embedding of restorative practice across the Council.

You will develop your skills to facilitate action learning sets with groups of staff and learn to facilitate conflict resolution to support staff and customers as part of developing our approach. You will contribute or lead some key elements of organisational development to support our restorative practice implementation.

If you are successful, your work programme will be agreed with you to be commensurate with your starting salary.

What we need from you

You will need to

  • Be passionate about restorative practice
  • Be able to demonstrate the ways in which you have implemented restorative practice in your work
  • Have highly developed emotional intelligence and Interpersonal skills
  • Be willing to learn and able to demonstrate your on-going development
  • Be self-aware and self-reflective
  • Be comfortable with conflict and be able to remain neutral in conflict situations.
  • Show willingness to question your own prejudices
  • Be encouraging, motivating and supporting of others
  • Have a track record of collaborative working with good project management skills

Your Development and Support

You will be based with the Learning and Organisational Development Team. You will shadow or co-facilitate action learning for the first 6 months to support you to develop your skills in both action learning facilitation and restorative practice.

You will be supported through individual and group supervision and CPD provided with our Restorative Practice co-ordinator and external independent expert.

For the time being we are planning to facilitate most of our delivery through Microsoft Teams. We offer flexible working to all our employees believing work life balance is a key component in achieving our outcomes. 

If you wish to have a chat about the role, please contact Patricia Lewis or Marion Gray on 01484 221000. 

Interviews will take place on the 17th and 18th of September 2020 so please reserve these dates.

If successful you will be required to join a Restorative Action Learning Set (ALS) on the 22nd of September 2020 (if not already participating in an ALS).

Pat Lewis is the manager for this role, please contact them on 01484 221000 for an informal discussion, or if you need any more information. 
We know there’s a wealth of talent among people who have a disability and we encourage applications from people with all differing abilities. So, if you need any support completing an application form, or any other format for the application or Job Description please contact the Recruitment Team for help by email: jobs@kirklees.gov.uk or phone: 01484 221000 and ask for ‘Recruitment’.

If you are internal and want to apply for this job as a secondment you must be a substantive employee of the Council with over 6 months continuous service and have successfully completed your probation period.

Applications for secondments will only be accepted if approved by your manager, you will be asked to confirm on your application form that you have the relevant permission. If you are refused permission to apply for a secondment, please contact HR Recruitment to register the refusal.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

06 September 2020, 11:55 PM

Important Information

This vacancy is closed to applications.