Do you have Lived Experience of a Learning Disability and would like to become a Co Trainer, delivering Oliver McGowan Training locally in your community.
Or are you already facilitating or co training Oliver McGowan and would like more hours locally in your community?
We currently have an immediate need for trainers living in and around the Oxford (Oxfordshire), High Wycombe/Milton Keynes (Buckinghamshire) and Reading/Wokingham (Berkshire ) areas.
We offer a blend of: Work from home (online delivery of Tier 1) with face-to-face delivery locally ( within 1 hour of home) of Tier 2 programmes
If you have a learning disability and feel comfortable sharing your experiences to help others learn? We have the perfect opportunity for you.
Your lived experience is essential to delivering the Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training on Learning Disability and Autism We will fully fund your training and support you every step of the way so you can become a confident Co-Trainer, delivering sessions online and (if you choose) in person.
You will always work alongside an experienced Facilitator Trainer who will support you throughout.
Training and Support
We want you to feel confident and supported in your role:
Requirements
The Role
As a Co-Trainer with Lived Experience, you will:
About You
We are looking for someone who:
You do not need previous training experience — we will provide everything you need to succeed.
Our Commitment
We welcome applications from people with all types of learning disabilities and from diverse backgrounds.
At UTS, we recognise lived experience as real expertise. Together, we can help make health and social care more understanding, inclusive, and safe for everyone.
Benefits
Hours: Flexible (1–20 hours per week)
Pay: £30 per hour + travel and accommodation expenses.
Contract: Sessional / Flexible
About Us
Unique Training Solutions is a Disability Confident Employer
Our team includes over 100 Experts with Lived Experience, and we deliver essential Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training to health and social care organisations. We also measure the impact of our training in improving care and helping to save lives for people with learning disabilities and autistic people.
UTS have been designing, developing and delivering Health, Housing and Social Care training courses and qualifications since 2003. Our delivery teams have an outstanding level of occupational competence and are qualified professionals in their fields of practice.
MISSION
To improve the quality of life and well-being for all individuals who rely on support services.
To deliver quality programmes that raise standards, promote best practice and instil compassionate care.
To be committed to the sector and work closely with Skills for Care and CQC to ensure that we advise our customers appropriately.
To be a customer centric organisation, putting our customers and the people they support at the heart of all that we do.
To work in partnership with organisations, developing close working relationships with our customers and all stakeholders based on mutual trust, understanding and openness.
OUR CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIPS
It is important for us to plan effectively together to meet your desired outcomes for any project and for communication to take place throughout the service delivery period with more formal review on completion.
We don’t ‘just deliver training and qualifications’, we work in partnership with our customers to understand their business, to provide support with their workforce development planning, to understand the impact our provision is having on practice and to improve performance across their business.
RECOGNISED SKILLS FOR CARE PROVIDER
Unique Training Solutions have great pride in achieving Skills for Care recognition in 2016. This has given all our staff confidence in their high quality work and that they are doing a good job. Skills for care endorsement framework is a mark of quality that is given to the best learning and development in the adult social care sector. By being endorsed we can prove we deliver high-quality learning and development. Read more on Skills for Care: http://www.uniquetrainingsolutions.co.uk/skills-for-care.html
