About this role
On behalf of HSE, we are looking for a Learning and Development Manager - Inside IR35 for a contract until 31st March 2027 working on a Hybrid basis (remote with occasional ad hoc meetings in Glasgow, Sheffield or Bootle and remaining WFH)
At the Health and Safety Executive, we believe everyone has the right to come home safe and well from their job. Our mission is to prevent work-related death, injury, and ill health.
Our roots stretch back to 1833. The modern HSE is an independent regulator with a wide reach across many employment sectors. Using world leading science, we have helped protect millions of people from devasting injury and suffering through our diverse regulatory activities.
We concentrate effort on the most serious risks, targeting industries with the greatest hazards, and sectors with the worst risk management record. We hold people to account where we have to, and we are firm but fair when using our legal powers. We also provide support to businesses through free guidance and advice tailored to business needs. By giving them the confidence to manage risks sensibly, we boost productivity, support the economy, and contribute to a fairer society. We work hard to help maintain an effective regulatory framework, playing our part in providing proportionate and accountable legal requirements.
The world of work is always changing. We use science to understand these changes. And that understanding helps us all prepare for the workplaces of tomorrow... so Great Britain continues to be one of the safest and best places to work and do business.
The main duties and responsibilities of the Learning and Development Manager would be to:
- Develop short and medium-term operating model options to support the planned growth of the regulatory inspector workforce .
- Design a scalable learning, development and deployment framework that supports inspectors from onboarding through to competence.
- Review and consolidate existing training materials, competency frameworks, guidance and operational knowledge into a structured development programme.
- Assess workforce , supervisory and coaching capacity requirements to support different intake volumes and deployment scenarios.
- Develop a modular capability framework that balances consistent standards with tailored development pathways based on operational needs.
- Recommend effective learning delivery approaches, including centralised, distributed and hybrid models.
- Design structured workplace learning, mentoring, coaching and consolidation activities to support practical capability development.
- Produce implementation plans, governance recommendations and success measures to enable sustainable workforce growth and long-term capability development.
Essential:
- Significant experience designing and implementing learning, capability and workforce development solutions within complex organisations.
- Proven experience developing competency frameworks, learning pathways and routes to professional competence.
- Demonstrable experience designing scalable training and development programmes to support organisational growth and workforce expansion.
- Strong workforce planning and organisational design experience, including operating model development and implementation planning.
- Experience conducting capacity assessments and developing resource models to support learning, coaching and operational delivery requirements.
- Ability to engage and collaborate effectively with senior stakeholders, operational leaders , subject matter experts and support functions.
- Experience designing blended learning approaches, including workplace learning, mentoring, coaching and consolidation activities.
- Strong analytical , problem-solving and report-writing skills, with the ability to develop practical recommendations and implementation-ready solutions.
- Experience within regulatory, inspection, operational delivery or other highly regulated environments.
- Experience supporting large-scale workforce transformation, onboarding programmes or capability-building initiatives .
Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.
Disability Confident
As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, HSE guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.
Armed Forces Covenant / Commitment
HSE guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.
In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".