Learning & Development Adviser

  • Parkinson's UK
  • Jul 14, 2025
Full time Education

Job Description

Are you someone who loves creating and delivering inclusive and engaging learning experiences - and excited to grow your own skills along the way? We re looking for a Learning & Development Advisor to join our friendly and excellence focused People & Culture team.

We don t expect you to be an expert in everything - but you ll be someone who s ready to learn, keen to take ownership, and excited to work in a values-led environment where people really matter.

This is a fantastic opportunity to make a real difference - helping colleagues and volunteers across the charity grow, develop and thrive in their roles. If you re excited by the role and think you could make a difference, we d love you to apply.

About the role

You ll play a key part in bringing our learning and development offer to life - designing and delivering creative, accessible learning that supports colleagues and volunteers to be their best.

Whether it s coordinating onboarding, delivering workshops, developing digital content or supporting leadership development, you ll work with teams across the charity to support their learning needs and enhance our peoples experience at Parkinson s UK (both employees and volunteers).

This work will equip our people to better support the ambition of our People & Culture and organisational Strategy.

What you ll do:

  • Support the design and delivery of engaging learning programmes, both in person and online for colleagues and volunteers

  • Gather, collate and apply evaluation, feedback and insights on key areas of the team s work

  • Work closely with our incredible volunteers across the four nations to support their development

  • Build strong working relationships with subject matter experts in the charity to understand and meet evolving learning needs

  • Collaborate with Volunteering and People & Culture colleagues to identify and deliver relevant learning opportunities and develop learning resources, processes and systems (e.g. LMS)

What you ll bring:

  • Experience of designing and delivering impactful, inclusive learning initiatives for both colleagues and volunteers both in person and virtually

  • Proven ability to work collaboratively, with the ability to build rapport and relationships with colleagues and volunteers at all levels

  • Strong verbal and written communication and facilitation skills - you re confident engaging with and creating meaningful connections with a wide variety of audiences

  • An understanding of the power of inclusive learning and an ability to reflect that when providing learning and development to colleagues and volunteers

  • Experience of using data and insight to incorporate into learning initiatives or programmes

This is an exciting time for Parkinson s UK and we would love you to join us!

Please apply by sending us your CV, together with a detailed supporting statement which will fully demonstrate how you meet all the criteria of the role, as stated in the "What you'll bring" section of the job description.

As well as flexible working hours, this role is offered on a flexible contract giving you the opportunity to also work from home up to two days a week. You ll be required to cover your own travel expenses to the office

Interviews for this role will be held on 06 August 2025.

Anyone can get Parkinson s. It s vital that the people who work for Parkinson s UK are representative of our diverse community. We actively encourage people from all sections of the community to apply, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender identity, age, disability, sexual orientation, or religion.