Jon Taylor

Experience

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  The Clarks Shop

  Jan 1998 - Jan 2000

  Sales Assistant

  serving customers, maintaining stock, and assisting in the training of newer members of staff.

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  Wirral Council

  Jul 1999 - Jun 2009

  Responsible for the day-to-day running of the Council's apprenticeship scheme. Duties include recruiting apprentices, organising their training, and supporting them into full employment. This role also includes taking a pro-active approach in identifying placements and vacancies for young people leaving care.- Working closely with local training providers and the Learning & Skills Council. This role also includes identifying and accessing funded training for Council employees.- Responsible for the administration of the Staff Suggestion Scheme liaising with staff and managers to ensure that employees' suggestions for improvement are implemented and rewarded where appropriate.- Internal Reviewer for ‘Investors in People' as part of the Council's ‘rolling review' programme to retain Investors in People status.- Working alongside partners from other local authorities to implement an online learning resource to be used by the Merseyside local authorities and Merseyside Fire & Rescue Service. Show less Promoted to a full time position in the Personnel Department. Duties included use and maintenance of the organisation's computerised Human Resource System in order to provide manpower information to managers, monitoring & reporting on racial incidents using inter-agency monitoring forms, recruitment interviewing, development of tailored software to support racial incident reporting & job evaluation. Supervision and mentoring of apprentices. NVQ Level 3 Personnel Support (CIPD) completed Nov 2004 and awarded March 2005. Show less

  • Assistant Organisational Development Officer

    Jun 2005 - Jun 2009

  • Trainee Personnel Officer

    Jan 2000 - Jun 2005

  • Business Administration Apprentice

    Jul 1999 - Dec 1999
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  Wirral Borough Council

  Jun 2009 - Oct 2013

  Training Officer - e-Learning

  Responsibility for all aspects of e-learning provision within the organisation including:- Authoring SCORM based e-learning modules using an authoring tool program and publishing courses on a Moodle based learning environment.- Working with subject matter experts to script new e-learning courses, advise on structure and source appropriate graphics.- Promoting e-learning to staff and providing assistance with technical issues.- Providing comprehensive reports and figures to managers. Show less

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  Hugh Baird College

  Oct 2013 - Jun 2017

  Quality Officer: e-Learning & Training

  Responsible for the promotion and administration of the College's Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), developing e-learning resources and supporting teaching staff in the use of learning technologies.

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  Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

  Jun 2017 - Apr 2018

  Educational Technologist

  Working in the Technology Enhanced Learning Unit, and providing specialist support to students and staff in the use of technology in support of Learning & Teaching. This involves the management of the helpdesk, development and delivery of staff development sessions, and support of student induction. Working alongside other members of the Education and Training department and the wider academic community to support the creation of learning resources to support specific pedagogical approaches.

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  University of Liverpool

  Apr 2018 - now

  Technology Enhanced Learning Technician

  A member of the Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) Support Team within the Centre for Educational Development and Support (CEDS) predominately based within the School of Psychology.Responsible for the provision of an effective and efficient technical service within the School specifically supporting the use of Technology Enhanced Learning across a range of undergraduate, postgraduate and CPD programmes including the use of the university’s Blackboard learning system, AV support and video/audio capture and editing.Dealing with staff and students, assisting in the use of technology to support learning and teaching activities, development of training and support materials, and liaison with central service teams including Computing Services Department (CSD) and Digital Communications and external groups with responsibility for TEL. Show less