Learning and Capability Partner
Position: Learning and Capability Partner
Job Type: Full Time
Reports To: Senior Director of People
Location: Hybrid in Colorado, Maryland, or Virginia – Occasional Onsite Work and Travel Required
Schedule: Monday to Friday | Hours May Vary
Compensation: $60,000 - $80,000 Annual Salary
About The Role
The Learning & Capability Partner is responsible for building learning infrastructure, onboarding experiences, talent development programs, workforce capability strategies, and organizational effectiveness initiatives across Sandstone Care. This role partners with leaders to drive employee growth, leadership development, succession planning, retention, engagement, and continuous learning.
This role brings deep facilitation and program design experience, is comfortable working in a highly regulated healthcare environment, and can operate with a high degree of independence while collaborating closely across the People function, Clinical Operations, Compliance, and Operational Leadership.
Primary Responsibilities Include:
Program Design & Delivery
Design, deliver, and continuously improve onboarding, leadership development, professional skills, and compliance training programs.
Develop career pathways, competency frameworks, and learning journeys.
Facilitate in-person and virtual training sessions, workshops, and cohort-based programs.
Partner with the Instructional Designer to translate learning objectives into effective content, and with the Training Manager to align programs with organizational training priorities.
Onboarding & Employee Development
Own onboarding strategy and new employee orientation programs that accelerates new hire productivity and engagement.
Support 30-, 60-, and 90-day integration plans and onboarding effectiveness metrics.
Track onboarding milestones, gather feedback, and continuously improvement the onboarding experience
Talent Development & Workforce Capability
Conduct capability assessments and identify skill gaps across the organization and then design, deliver, and coordinate training programs, workshops, and leadership development initiatives that meet those identified needs.
Support performance management, talent identification, succession planning cycles and internal mobility, and leadership readiness initiatives.
Employee Experience, Engagement & Retention
Analyze engagement, retention, turnover, and learning data and provide actionable recommendations
Support stay interviews, exit insights, and workforce improvement initiatives to provide feedback on the employee experience and retention drivers.
Identify learning needs through business partnerships, employee feedback, performance outcomes, and workforce planning initiatives.
Compliance & Regulatory Alignment
Ensure training programs meet applicable state, federal, and accreditation requirements relevant to behavioral healthcare (e.g., licensing board CEU requirements, BHA/Joint Commission standards, HIPAA, incident reporting, de-escalation/crisis intervention training)
Maintain accurate training records and completion tracking to support audit-readiness
Stay current on regulatory and industry changes that impact required training content
Program Management & Evaluation
Own end-to-end delivery of assigned Learning and Capability initiatives, from planning through evaluation
Measure training effectiveness using established evaluation frameworks and translate data into recommendations for program improvement
Manage the organizations LMS, vendor relationships and external training resources as needed
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Partner across People, Operations, Clinical, Compliance, and leadership teams to ensure learning solutions support broader talent strategies and align workforce capability initiatives with business priorities.
Education:
Bachelor’s degree in a related field required is strongly preferred.
SHRM-CP or PHR certification preferred.
Training & Experience:
5+ years of experience in learning & development, talent management, workforce capability, or related people functions.
Strong facilitation, presentation, communication, project management, analytics, and stakeholder management skills.
Experience with HRIS and LMS platforms
Healthcare or highly regulated industry experience preferred