Who are we?

Thames Water is the UK’s largest water and wastewater company. We make a daily difference to our 15 million customers by supplying 2.6 billion litres of water through 32,000 km of pipes, keeping taps flowing and toilets flushing.

At Thames Water, every one of our actions, big and small, matters every day. Water is essential to life, so our business is always open.

This role is responsible for delivering great learning solutions to our business, ensuring our leaders are equipped to lead teams in a way that reflects our values, meets the leadership competency framework and creates a coaching culture that leads to an engaged and empowered workforce.

This is a Part time role working 2-3 days a week

What makes this role unique?

This is an exciting opportunity to use your passion and knowledge to engage and develop your colleagues. Sharing your knowledge in areas of the business that are critical in ensuring the delivery of excellent leadership development.

What will this role involve?

• Work as part of a Training team to deliver best-in-class leadership learning and development solutions to our colleagues.
• Deliver learning using a range of techniques including structured classroom delivery, facilitation, coaching, mentoring, video, audio, and online tools.
• Delivering training via Virtual (Teams) platform or Face-to-Face, depending on the needs of the business
• The ability to provide constructive, timely feedback to improve performance, including behaviours.
• Have experience working within a fast-moving environment with constantly changing priorities.
• Strong knowledge of Learning and Development principles and practices.
• Excellent communicator with a passion to share your knowledge with others.
• Support and steer the design development of learning content to drive the leadership agenda.
• Develop great working partnerships with other support areas, planning and quality to deliver fit-for-purpose solutions that drive performance improvement.

What you will bring to the role?

• Candidates will ideally have a good knowledge of Management and Leadership Learning & Development, understanding the importance of Learner Experience to our desired outcomes.
• The ability to provide constructive, timely feedback to improve performance, including behaviours. Confidence in stakeholder management is also key for this role.
• Experience in working with constantly changing priorities is essential as is your ability to be flexible as to the need of the business and learner alike.
• To be successful in this role you will need to be an excellent communicator with a passion to share your knowledge with others.
• Experience in coaching and/or training others to coach.
• Qualifications in Coaching and DiSC delivery are an advantage.
• Familiarity with SABA is also an advantage.

This is a hybrid role that will require the ability to work from home and across multiple Thames Water sites if required.

What’s in it for you?

Our competitive salary package includes an excellent contributory pension, 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with length of service and a wider benefits scheme including our benefits hub, which is packed full of offers and information to save you money and support your well-being.

Thames Water is a dynamic, rewarding and diverse place to work, with opportunities around every corner. If you join our team, you’ll enjoy a fulfilling career and flexible working arrangements.

We’re also proud to embrace and promote diversity and believe that creating a workforce that reflects the communities we serve will help us to thrive. We encourage applications from everyone and offer extra support for those who need it throughout the recruitment process.

Find out more about working at Thames Water.

We deliver life's essential service so our customers, communities and the environment can thrive. This means, when a crisis happens, we all rally round to support our customers. As part of Team Thames, you’ll have the opportunity to sign up to support our customers on the frontline as an Ambassador. Full training will be given for what is undoubtedly an incredibly rewarding experience. It’s also a great opportunity to learn more about our business, meet colleagues and a earn bit of extra money along the way.

Disclaimer: due to the high volume of applications we receive, we may close a vacancy earlier than the advertised date. This is so we can manage all the applications properly and give candidates a positive experience. Once closed, we can’t consider any further applications, so please submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.