Senior Learning and Development Specialist

Join on the heart-warming journey with a team that is a top leader in the rehabilitation industry

Encompass Health is the leader in inpatient rehabilitation industry, you'll feel the Encompass Health direction as soon as you join. We collaborate and provide high-quality, compassionate, individualized care for our patients, allowing us time to get to know them and help them achieve their goals during their rehabilitation journey.

Position Purpose

The Senior Learning and Development Specialist manages the creation, curation, and continuous improvement of learning and development content based on the company's vision and strategy. This role focuses on designing and delivering leadership and development programs for team leads, supervisors/managers, and hospital directors. Responsibilities include end-to-end needs analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation of multiple programs. The ideal candidate has a strong understanding of adult learning theory and instructional design and is strategic and innovative in delivering programs that equip our leaders to develop teams and deliver inpatient rehabilitation care, enabling our patients to achieve life-changing results.

Core Responsibilities and Initiatives:

• Learning Content Creation: Partner with the L&D and Talent Management Teams to create engaging content, utilizing various instructional design methodologies to develop training materials that align with organizational goals and enhance employee development.
• Training Events Facilitation: Facilitate OD-hosted training events and team-building activities, coordinate with trainers and participants for successful execution, and evaluate training effectiveness to recommend improvements.
• Leadership Preceptor Program: Development and delivery of Leadership Preceptor Training.
• Summer Internship Program: Manage recruitment, onboarding, program delivery and evaluation.
• Leadership Orientation: Program Development and Administration, Facilitation of events, communication with stakeholders, and program evaluation.

Responsibilities & Tasks

• Drive projects to implementation, evaluation, and sustainability on time and within budget.
• Accomplish goals with quality and quantity work in a timely manner.
• Build networks/partnerships, influence stakeholders, and demonstrate emotional intelligence.
• Collaborate to integrate, coordinate, communicate, and implement plans that meet business needs.
• Understand, explain, and continuously build knowledge of Organizational Development (OD).
• Demonstrate flexibility to adapt to work as needed.
• Report the measured results of initiatives.
• This is an onsite position here in Birmingham, AL

Qualifications

License or Certification:

• CPLP, PMP, and/or SPHR preferred

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in HR, I/O Psychology, Instructional Design, or other field; Master's preferred
• At least 3 years of learning program/project management
• Experience in healthcare preferred

A little about us

We're confident you'll see the difference the moment you join our team. Working at Encompass Health means working with a growing national inpatient rehabilitation leader. We're proud of our career growth opportunities and how our team members work together for the greater good of our patients. We've been named one of the "World's Most Admired Companies" and a Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® Award, among others, which is pretty amazing.

Our benefits start day one

• Affordable medical, dental and vision plans for full-time and part-time employees and their families.
• Generous paid time off that accrues over time.
• Tuition reimbursement and continuing education opportunities.
• Company-matching 401(k) and employee stock purchase plans.
• Flexible spending and health savings accounts.
• A community of people who love what they do. Yes, we see that as a benefit.