Learning Specialist
Employer: Barnardo's
Location: This role can be based in a Barnardo's hub/office or home address. You will be required to attend a monthly in-person team meeting in London along with occasional travel as required for the role. Flexible working requests will be considered.
Working hours: 36.25 Hours per week
Salary: £39,642.09 - £53,570.40
Closing date: 2 July 2026
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What your work in learning could directly help change childhoods and change lives?
At Barnardo's, when our people learn, children and young people benefit.
We're looking for a Learning Specialist who is passionate about helping others grow, thrives on creating engaging learning experiences, and wants their work to have a meaningful impact. If you're energised by designing, facilitating and continuously improving learning, this could be your next opportunity.
About the Role
As a Learning Specialist, you'll help shape learning and development across Barnardo's.
Working closely with colleagues, subject matter experts and external partners, you'll identify learning needs, design and facilitate engaging learning experiences, and evaluate their impact. You'll help create a culture where learning, development and growth are part of everyday life, supporting colleagues and volunteers to perform at their best. We're a friendly, supportive team who test, learn and iterate; we're always looking for ways to do things better for the people we support.
This role can be based in a Barnardo's hub/office or home address. You will be required to attend a monthly in-person team meeting in London along with occasional travel as required for the role. Flexible working requests will be considered.
Why This Role Matters
The quality of support we provide to children and young people depends on the capability, confidence and development of our people.
Through your expertise, creativity and curiosity, you'll help equip colleagues and volunteers with the skills they need to make a lasting difference. This is an opportunity to influence learning at scale, bringing people together to learn, grow and achieve more.
What We're Looking For
We're looking for an L&D professional who brings strong core practice and a collaborative, learner-focused mindset.
You're curious about how learning can impact, and keen to test, learn and improve solutions as you go.
You'll bring:
Experience designing, delivering and evaluating structured learning (such as workshops, programmes and digital content) within a complex organisation.
Strong facilitation skills, with experience leading inclusive, learner-centred sessions that encourage engagement and participation.
Experience collecting feedback and using evaluation to improve learning and inform future design.
Confidence working with stakeholders to identify learning needs and shape effective solutions.
Experience using digital platforms (such as SharePoint, Canva and similar) to create and manage learning content.
A CIPD Level 3 or 5 qualification (or equivalent) and/or around 3+ years' experience in learning and development.
Practical application of learning and development principles, with the ability to translate theory into effective workplace learning.
What You'll Gain
The opportunity to shape learning across one of the UK's largest children's charities.
A flexible, predominantly remote role within a supportive and collaborative team.
Investment in your professional development, including conferences, events and ongoing learning opportunities.
The chance to work with a wide range of colleagues and projects across the organisation.
Most importantly, the opportunity to see your work contribute to changing childhoods and changing lives.
Ready to Apply?
If you're passionate about learning, motivated by purpose and excited by the opportunity to help others develop and thrive, we'd love to hear from you.
Apply now and help us create learning that makes a difference.
We recognise that applicants may use AI tools to support their applications. However, we're keen to hear your own thinking, experience and judgement. Please ensure your application reflects your personal voice and clearly demonstrates your individual contribution, knowledge and understanding.
Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible
Pay & Reward Framework
We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's values. We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people.
For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which was rolled out in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our People & Culture Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to belong, thrive and grow in their colleague journey at Barnardo's and in time will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues in both their career and their pay.
Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the minimum to mid-point of the pay band – this ensures that pay steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours. More details on Barnardo's pay framework can be found upon application.
Benefits
Workplace Offer: What it means for you
Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, in the community, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or depending on the role any combination of these. Please read through the advert carefully to understand the remits of hybrid working that will be specific to the role.
Barnardo's require colleagues to be UK residents, based in the UK and to complete their roles from within the UK (with the exception of colleagues providing Barnardo's services in Jersey and colleagues who live in the Republic of Ireland providing services in Northern Ireland)
Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
Annual Leave entitlement for full-time colleagues is 26 days per annum, increasing to 27 days per annum, after 3 years Barnardo's service, 29 days per annum, after 5 years Barnardo's service and 30 days per annum, after 7 years Barnardo's service. Those working less than full time are entitled to the same level of holiday pro rata
The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our Buy Your Leave scheme
A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
Service related sick pay from day 1
Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution
Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
Cycle2work scheme
Interest free season ticket loans
Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
20% discount at Barnardo's stores
Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer
*T&C's apply based on contract
About Barnardo's
We are committed to being an inclusive employer and cultivating a culture where everyone can belong and thrive through inclusion and connectivity. We want our workforce to be reflective of the communities we work with, and for equality, diversity and inclusion to be embedded in everything we do. We are a Disability Confident Leader, are progressing our ambition to be an anti-racist organisation with Anti-Racism Commitments and actions in place and have networks for colleagues who are disabled, LGBT+, Black and Minoritised Ethnic and Women. We particularly encourage applications from Black and Minoritised Ethnic and/or disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented in our workforce. For disabled applicants, we offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.
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