Gemma Littlejohns

Experience

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  City and County of Swansea

  Jul 2002 - Oct 2009

  Developing partnerships between referral agencies and securing work and educational placements for young people aged between 16 and 24 as part of an ESF funded programme. Providing key skills training and accreditation as part of the Modern Apprenticeship Programme financed by the European Social Fund. Setting up and registering OCN Centre, internal verification and external verification for OCN, mentoring new OCN Centre staff and co-ordinating accredited learning within Swansea Youth Service.

  • Work Placement Officer

    May 2006 - Oct 2009

  • Key Skills Tutor

    Sept 2004 - May 2006

  • OCN Co-ordinator

    Jul 2002 - Aug 2004
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  Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council

  Jan 2008 - Oct 2009

  Finance and Admin Co-ordinator

  Co-ordinating financial and administrative activities between the community based partnerships and compiling reports for WG. Supporting Health and Safety and HR activities across seven offices.

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  Chwarae Teg

  Oct 2009 - Jan 2022

  Leading a pan-Wales team of HR Business Partners, delivering advice and guidance to SMEs across Wales. Developing bespoke Equality and Diversity Strategies for businesses and help to implement them. Identify new and emergent practices that improve diversity and inclusion issues within businesses. Designing and developing a range of learning and development resources suitable for use by trainers, consultants and business leaders. Supporting businesses to improve the recruitment and retention of diverse workforces by writing and implementing bespoke Equality and Diversity Strategies. Identifying opportunities to improve current working practices. Providing leaders with advice and guidance as they implement changes to working practices. Providing bespoke training to leaders and their organisations. Delivering Chwarae Teg's Leadership and Management Programme; providing career advice, carrying out training needs analysis and creating and implementing career development plans for inexperienced and aspiring leaders. Delivering ILM accredited leadership training.

  • Senior Human Resources Business Partner

    Apr 2018 - Jan 2022

  • Human Resources Business Partner

    Jan 2012 - Mar 2018

  • Senior Project Officer

    Oct 2009 - Jan 2012
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  Hywel Dda University Health Board

  Jan 2022 - now

  Learning and Development Manager

  At HDdUHB I lead the Learning & Development Department developing short, medium and long termstrategies for organisational wide projects. I managed strategic collaborations with delivery partners ensuring accessible, high quality, affordable and bespoke training offers to meet mandatory and non-mandatory workforce training needs. I lead on the design, development and implementation of a range of development initiatives including induction for international staff, management training, as well as working with architects to develop plans for new training facilities. Responsible for Health Board compliance, lead the department to achieving above the national requirement levels. Show less

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  Siderise Group

  Jul 2024 - now

  Learning and Development Business Partner

  Partner the business through leading on all learning and development activities, be the accountable person for organisational competence, be the point of contact for all employee development matters, and hold the position of being the organisational expert in L&D. Driving positive employee performance through continuous development, fostering a culture of lifelong learning and self-directed development, and ensuring learning offerings are available equally across the organisation globally.