L&D Business Partner

Job Introduction

HMP Northumberland are looking to recruit an L&D Business Partner to partner the Custody team, by ensuring the centralised Centre of Excellence supports the delivery of on-site services.  Developing the Justice learning and development (L&D) offer to meet the evolving needs of our services to ensure the best possible outcomes for residents and service users. You will drive the development and delivery of Justice wide L&D strategic initiatives and solutions, to maximise business and people performance and strategic change.

Sodexo Justice aims to change lives for the better by reducing reoffending and improving the quality of life for those under our supervision and in our care. We deliver safe, effective and innovative custodial and community rehabilitation services that challenge offending behaviour, protect the public and offer individuals the opportunity to change their lives for the better. 

As a working prison, we work towards the resettlement of residents upon their release into the community and their integration into society through the skills acquired while in our care. We are committed to supporting people to change their lives for the better and lead law-abiding lives. HMP Northumberland offers a variety of initiatives and programmes to help residents engage within the prison’s rehabilitative culture. This includes various educational and vocational qualifications, as well as a variety of opportunities for residents to learn new skills within our workshops and industries departments. We have textile, engineering and electrical workshops and can offer prisoners experience in horticulture, market gardens, cleaning, waste management and laundry services on site.

Being over 4 miles in circumference, the prison is a vast space with exceptionally kept plantation and currently houses over 1300 residents with a range of sentence terms.

Role Responsibility

• Advising the business on suitable learning solutions which will drive organisational performance
• Developing the Justice L&D offer to meet the evolving needs of our services to ensure the best possible outcomes for residents and service users.
• Actively driving the Justice L&D strategic planning process
• Drive consistent standards, training plans and outcomes across Justice sites
• Centralise activities to provide efficiencies, reducing duplication of effort and leverage economies of scale
• Oversee the ongoing development of the ITC and Custody & Detention Apprenticeship standards to ensure the best possible learning experience
• Ensuring learning outcomes from inspections, audits, inquests, Tribunals and complex ER cases are embedded into existing development processes and curriculums driving behavioural change and improved knowledge as required

The Ideal Candidate

Essential

• Educated to degree level or equivalent CIPD qualification or qualified by experience
• L&D Manager/BP generalist experience and detailed understanding of L&D Management including training needs analysis, performance management, program design and embedding a culture of learning
• Proven track record of understanding key drivers in a relevant business area and working with managers to measurably improve L&D practices
• Strong consulting skills including organisational diagnosis, planning, project and change management
• Strong analytical skills with excellent application of MS excel skills
• Professional and commercial acumen, with strong senior level influencing and stakeholder management skills
• Excellent interpersonal, communications and presentation skills
• Well organised and responsive; able to work under pressure and work across multiple projects with multiple stakeholders
• Excellent customer and relationship management skills, including credibility and influence at senior levels
• Proficient user of Microsoft Office programmes

Desirable

• Facilitating teams to achieve defined outcomes 
• Exposure to shared service centre environment
• Appreciation of L&D Systems, such as Ingenium

Package Description

Salary circa £45,000 + 10% bonus 

25 days holiday, bonus, flexible benefit fund (healthcare etc), pension scheme, and access to a variety of Sodexo benefits and discounts

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs some 36,000 employees to deliver integrated facilities management services to clients at over 2,000 locations in the energy, corporate, healthcare, education, leisure, defence and justice sectors. With an annual turnover of over £1bn, we provide everything from catering, cleaning and reception to security, laboratory and grounds maintenance services, enabling our clients to focus on their core business.

At Sodexo we are committed to a leading role in promoting equality opportunities and valuing diversity and inclusion. We seek to create a work environment based on mutual respect for all individuals, building a culture that appreciates and values the experiences and skills brought by each person to benefit our organisation and work hard to ensure that all people, whatever their race, colour, sex, gender identity  disability, nationality, national or ethnic origin, religion or belief, marital/partnership or family status, sexual orientation, age, social class, educational background, employment status, working pattern, are welcome to and included within our organisation. 

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations.

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process.