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Health and Social Care Trainer

Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 per annum + Generous holidays, Pension
Contract type: Permanent
Location: Winsley, Wiltshire
Posted date: Tuesday 08 July 2025
Closing date: Tuesday 29 July 2025
Start date:
Description

Providing outstanding care as rated by CQC, Dorothy House provides compassionate, supportive and holistic care for people in our community with a life-limiting illness. Our focus is on quality of life, helping patients to live well and die well.

We are here for anyone in our community who is facing a life-limiting illness. Using our full breadth of service, we create individual care journeys, which start at diagnosis and continue with bereavement support for family, carers and children.

We are looking for a Health and Social Care Trainer to join our Hospice at Home team here at Dorothy House. Someone who values emotional and psychological wellbeing, autonomy, and the importance of home life. This role is perfect for a motivated trainer who believes in dignified end-of-life care and enjoys helping others reach their potential.

HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE TRAINER | Band 5 £29,970 - £36,483 per annum (pro rata)

You will play a vital role in shaping and delivering high-quality training that empowers our care workers to provide exceptional, compassionate care to individuals in the final months of life.

Key duties and responsibilities will include:

  • Deliver high-quality training aligned with CQC standards, legislation, and good practice.
  • Plan and lead engaging induction and refresher training sessions for Hospice at Home staff.
  • Develop and maintain the service training matrix to track and manage training compliance.
  • Create and update course materials including presentations, e-learning modules, and workbooks.
  • Adapt training methods to meet varied learning styles and maximise staff engagement.
  • Provide one-to-one mentoring for staff who need additional support to complete training.
  • Promote a positive learning culture and work collaboratively with team leaders and educators.
  • Contribute to research opportunities that support and evaluate the social care model.

See our full detailed Job Description on our website for more information.

HOURS OF WORK

This is a Part Time position, working 22.5 hours over 3 week days.

ABOUT YOU

Due to the community based nature of the role, the post holder will need to hold a full UK driving licence with access to a vehicle.

The post holder will have an excellent understanding of the CQC 5 key questions and quality statements

Essential requirements:

  • Hold a teaching qualification (PGCE, or equivalent)
  • In date train the trainer (Moving and Handing, Medicines Management)
  • Detailed knowledge and understanding of CQC standards within area of social care settings.
  • Experience of coordinating training for groups/individuals with different learning styles
  • Experience in delivering learning/training solutions within the Health & Social Care sector
  • Excellent organisational, communication, written, oral and numeracy skills

Desirable requirements:

  • Experience in training colleagues from a varied background of previous education and experience
  • Experience with managing multiple priorities with the ability to work independently

ABOUT THE BENEFITS

Dorothy House is an incredible place to work, these are just a few of our benefits that we offer to our staff:

  • 27 days plus bank holidays, increasing to 29 days and then 33 days with length of service
  • Excellent industry leading training with a focus on career development!
  • Pension with Life Assurance. 
  • Colleague discount across our 27 retail stores.
  • 45p per mile for work travel. 
  • Mindful Employer Plus Charter - supporting our colleagues with access to impartial, confidential advice when you need it most. 

If this sounds like your ideal job, then we'd love to see your application.

Please note that our vacancies can close at any time once sufficient applications have been received. We therefore encourage early submission of your application.

Required skills for this position
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At Dorothy House, the principles of equality, diversity and inclusivity are central to our work as an outstanding care provider and employer. They are inherent in our values where we care, we connect and we create. We recognise the diversity of the people who deliver our services and the people who receive them. We believe that by building a diverse workforce, underpinned by a culture of respect, we will create an environment where everyone will have access to receive outstanding care and support from Dorothy House, regardless of characteristic.

Our 2021 Services Review identified how we need to work differently to achieve our strategic mission to ensure that “everyone has access to outstanding palliative and end of life care” and has presented us with an opportunity to improve on the “community development” work of the past and engage differently with our communities for the benefit of our patients, carers and families. Put another way, this is our moment ‘to do things differently’ and we are embracing this through Asset Based Community Development. We expect all staff to embrace this strategy and we will provide training accordingly.

What happens next

Step 1

Your application will be processed. One of the team from Dorothy House may contact you to discuss your application further

Step 2

If selected, you will be invited to attend an interview

Step 3

We will keep you informed of the progress of your application throughout the selection process

Elaine Kynaston - healthcare professional talking with patient
Every day is different and challenging, and I feel privileged to be let into the lives and homes of our patients

Elaine Kynaston, Dorothy House carer

Dorothy House is at the end of a phone whenever you need advice or reassurance. There’s just something about all the staff – they’re so approachable.

Angela Selman, DH patient, 2022

I was a Hospice at Home carer for thirty years. I think we all feel privileged to do it. It’s an honour to be with people at the very end of life.

Maggie Matthews, Dorothy House carer

I cannot put into words what a difference your carers made at such a dark time, and I will always be truly grateful.

Family of a patient, 2021

Anyone who works for Dorothy House is passionate about what we do. We’re like a family –we agree on our values and our mission and that comes through more than anything

Sue Spanswick, Dorothy House carer

It sounds a cliché, but every day really is totally different and I get to work with some amazing people

Debbie Russell, Mobile Deputy Shop Manager

I really wanted to work for Dorothy house after seeing first-hand the quality of care they provided. I applied for hospice at home carer role, and was thrilled to be offered a position.

Julia Harper, Dorothy House carer

My role at Dorothy House feels more meaningful than any of my previous corporate experience. Things here really matter, and it is so rewarding playing my part in helping us be there for patients and families

Rhiannon Eveleigh, Corporate Communications, 2022

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