Leadership & Management Development Partner 

Full Time - Hybrid Working

Are you looking for a new challenge? We have a fantastic opportunity to join as a Leadership & Management Development Partner in the People Services and Transformation Team. If this sounds like the perfect role for you then please apply via the link below.

Our offer to you

We pride ourselves in being a great place to work, providing a supportive culture with opportunities to grow and develop your career, achieve a healthy work life balance and to be recognised for the great work you do. You will receive:

• Competitive salary and pension scheme
• 33 days holiday (inclusive of bank holidays) - increasing to 38 days over 5 years
• Hybrid, Flexible working
• Cycle to work scheme Electric Vehicle Scheme
• Health and Wellbeing portal – access to financial, health and wellbeing support and an Employee Assistance Programme
• Discounts – you will have access to Blue Light and NHS Discounts as well as discounts on mobile phones, gym membership, cinema tickets, restaurants, holidays and shopping

About Us

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a team of over 1,577 employees and over 33,000 volunteers, united by our goal of saving lives through essential first aid services, training and campaigning.  As a charity with rich heritage and a long history of serving humanity, we are proud of our past and excited about creating a healthier, safer, more resilient future. 

St John Ambulance works at the heart of communities, supporting and enabling them to access and receive physical and mental health first aid. We do this through developing and providing effective community response and outreach services (e.g. Ambulance response, Falls response, Night Time Economy and Homelessness outreach) and using our longstanding expertise to empower people with vital clinical skills and the confidence to use them (e.g. our Volunteers and Community Advocates, NHS Cadets and Young Responders programmes). There is also a buoyant social enterprise network which delivers first aid training and supplies medical consumables to businesses and consumers.

Job Summary

The Leadership & Management Development Partner will take a proactive and engaging approach to all employee and volunteer development matters across St John, while managing a team of Advisors to develop innovative programmes to positively impact and empower managers to lead and manage their people in a modern approach. They will partner with SJA leaders to understand the needs of business areas, delivering interventions and supporting business leaders with the identification of future needs. They will have proven influence experience and will provide vital oversight and direction to a team, including their development, talent and growth of the People Advisor team, while working with the other People Services Leads, on a ‘one team’ approach.

About You

To be successful in this role, you need to be educated to GCSE level or equivalent (Grade C / 4) including Maths & English, minimum 5, Further or higher education –  Learning & Development / CIPD / Training at Level 7 Teaching or similar relevant qualification, Proven L&D experience, including in the development and design of Leadership and Management Development plans, a robust experience in the design, development and delivery of Leadership and Management Development programmes and strong planning and organisational skills with the ability to provide sound judgement and decision making.

About the Role

• Lead the Leadership Management Development team in creating a high performing and positive team to work within, taking a people-centric approach to upskilling and developing SJA Leaders and Managers.
• Working in partnership with the Head of People Services and Transformation, lead on the design, development and implementation of organisational development, inclusion and learning, to deliver strong development plans for Leaders, translating organisational values into meaningful leadership actions. Ensuring plans are future-focused, relevant, innovative, cost effective and aligned to Network plans and SJA strategy. 
• Partner with SJA leaders in translating current and future leadership and management development needs at all levels, being able to influence the need for continuous learning and development. 
• Coach and influence stakeholders in all management development/upskilling matters, making recommendations of initiatives to respond to challenges.

Please see the job description for more detail (this can be viewed on our website or once you click apply)

Find out more about us, including our new Ask Me campaign, at www.sja.org.uk 

If you are a current St John Ambulance employee, please apply here: Click here

For all other candidates, or St John Ambulance volunteers wishing to apply: please apply below

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive high volume of applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

St John Ambulance are committed to increasing the diversity of our team and making sure we best reflect the diversity of the communities we serve.   At St John, everyone is valued and supported to thrive, we have several networks including Multi Culture, Disability and Accessibility, Pride, Family and Carers and Women’s groups.  We do not tolerate any form of discrimination and engender a sense of belonging for all, by creating an environment of mutual respect, where we value unique differences and demonstrate authentic allyship. We believe passionately in equality, diversity and inclusion.   

Please note: St John does not accept speculative CVs and will only review CVs sent in application for an advertised vacancy.