Closing Date & Time : Wednesday 15 July at 17:00
Interviews: To be held week commencing 27 July 2026
Hours of work: 28 hours per week to be worked in office hours (excluding lunch break) including occasional evening and weekends
Salary: £28,598 -£31,022 (35 hours FTE) pro rata
Based:Based at 13 Scott Street, Keighley (BD21 2JH), with regular travel across the Bradford district to deliver sessions.
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Job Purpose:
We’re seeking an experienced trainer who is passionate about health, wellbeing, and empowering others through learning. This is a unique opportunity to join Keighley Healthy Living in a dynamic role that will not only support our Rethinking Pain Programme but also contribute to a range of innovative health and wellbeing projects.
As our Training Coordinator, you’ll do more than deliver sessions – you’ll be an advocate for change. You’ll help people rethink their relationship with pain, develop practical self-management skills, and explore new ways to improve their overall wellbeing. Beyond the Rethinking Pain Programme, you’ll also have the opportunity to shape and deliver other innovative health projects, ensuring your work touches a wide range of needs in our community.
You’ll also play a key role in strengthening our own team by designing and delivering in-house training for staff, helping colleagues build their skills, confidence, and knowledge so we can collectively deliver the best possible support to our community.
Key Attributes
- Proven experience in training, facilitation, or adult education – ideally in a health, wellbeing, or community setting.
- A warm, empathetic communication style that builds trust and encourages participation.
- Knowledge of, or willingness to learn about, pain self-management and holistic health approaches and importance of addressing health inequalities is valued.
- Experience in designing and delivering training for communities.
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to adapt quickly to changing needs.
- Confidence in using digital tools for training delivery and participant interaction.
- A genuine passion for helping people improve their quality of life.
- A team player, interested and passionate about self-care and holistic health.
- High level communicator, comfortable with public speaking & presenting.
Job location, transportation and physical requirement
- Be willing and able to work across Bradford District and Craven.
- The role involves regular travel to venues across the district, with approximately two sessions delivered per day.
- A full driving licence and access to your own car are essential.
- The role includes regular manual handling, including lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling, and moving items weighing up to 25 pounds.
- Training sessions delivered on occasional evenings and weekends
Key Responsibilities and Duties
- Undertake training to the required standard in chronic pain, holistic pain management, and the use of relevant tools, resources, and delivery strategies.
- Deliver high-quality adult education, training, and workshops on pain, health, and wellbeing in person, online, and in one-to-one or group settings helping individuals set and achieve personal goals.
- Deliver pre-developed Rethinking Pain workshops in community, ensuring sessions are safe, effective, inclusive, and delivered to a consistently high standard.
- Communicate clearly and empathetically with people from diverse backgrounds, adapting delivery style, language, and materials to suit different needs and abilities.
- Design and deliver in-house training for staff and support bespoke internal learning across the organisation to build skills, confidence and knowledge
- Work with the Project Manager, Project Coordinator, colleagues, and clinical partners to keep training content up to date and aligned with governance and change management processes.
- Plan delivery the delivery of sessions, including co-facilitation arrangements, cover for absences, bookings, logistics, and participant recruitment and engagement.
- Work collaboratively with voluntary and community sector partners, health coaches, social prescribers, and experts by experience to ensure joined-up support for participants.
- Manage the equipment, materials, and resources needed for workshop delivery, including ordering supplies, printing, refreshments, room hire records, and monthly activity updates.
- Collect feedback, maintain accurate paperwork and registers, update the database, and follow monitoring and evaluation processes to demonstrate outcomes and improve accessibility and inclusion.
Training and Delivery
- Ensure registration forms, photo consent forms, and feedback forms are completed for each participant and recorded on the database.
- Keep bookings up to date, manage waiting lists, and communicate clearly with participants about changes and course reminders.
- Identify, record, and report risks or concerns to the Project Manager to help maintain compliance and safety at approved community venues.
- Work closely with the Project Coordinator/ Project manager to share learning, improve delivery, and help develop training and new ways of working for Rethinking Pain and other health and wellbeing projects.
- Deal with project or group issues promptly and positively, and report any significant changes or concerns to the Project Coordinator.
- Ensure facilitators and team members leading or supporting sessions, including during your absence, have the information, paperwork, and resources they need.
- Monitor attendance, evaluate training impact, and gather feedback to improve future sessions.
- Maintain accurate records of training delivery, attendance, progress, and feedback.
Data Management and Evaluation
- Use strong IT skills, handle sensitive information confidentially, and maintain a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.
- Deliver engaging training and in-house staff training to a range of audiences through in-person workshops and virtual sessions, mainly for Rethinking Pain but also for other health and wellbeing projects.
- Provide photos, case studies, and participant quotes, with appropriate consent, for social media and reporting purposes.
- Promote effective communication and ensuring all colleagues are kept informed about our health and wellbeing training within the organisation
Staff Learning and Development
- Working closely with both the Project Managers and HR Manager to plan and deliver engaging induction and refresher training for new and existing staff using in-person, virtual, and blended formats.
- Create, review, and update high-quality training materials that support organisational goals.
- Work with project managers, clinical partners, and external providers to plan and deliver specialist training.
- Support training logistics, reporting, and staff development activity to improve engagement and performance.
- Work with project managers to design, develop, and review training materials, and assess training effectiveness using feedback, evaluation, and performance data.
- Provide ongoing support to staff by responding to questions and helping them apply their learning.
- Keep up to date with training best practice and use new approaches to improve programme quality.
- Work with the Project Coordinator and Project Managers to identify training needs and align delivery with organisational priorities.
Additional:
- To promote the positive and professional ethos of KHL both internally and externally.
- Attend staff meetings, 1:1 meetings and other meetings at the request of the managers.
- Continually strive to improve service quality and bring added value to projects.
- Work as part of a team and develop positive relationships with colleagues.
- To generate and share ideas to develop and improve projects and administrative systems.
- To occasionally work unsocial hours, evening and weekends.
- To carry out any additional duties as required or appropriate to the post and grade.
- To undertake relevant training to maintain and update your skills and knowledge within your job role and to keep a record of training undertaken as agreed with your line manager.
