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Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health

Learning Specialist (Training)

🇺🇸 Newfoundland, PA

🕑 Full-Time

💰 $19 - $22 per Hour

💻 Learning & Development

🗓️ July 16th, 2025

Edtech.com's Summary

Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health is hiring a Learning Specialist (Training). The role involves scheduling, delivering, and coordinating training programs for employees using instructional techniques tailored to adult learners, primarily supporting adults with developmental disabilities. The specialist will also develop training materials, monitor, evaluate, and record training activities to improve job performance within the behavioral health field.

Highlights
  • Coordinate, facilitate, and deliver staff training and development programs
  • Create and develop training materials suited for adult learners
  • Monitor, evaluate, and document training activities
  • Preferable experience with learning management systems such as Absorb and MyAvatar
  • Instructor certifications in First Aid, CPR, and Crisis Prevention/Intervention are preferred
  • Minimum of 1 year of behavioral healthcare experience and conducting staff training
  • Bachelor's degree in development, education, training, or related field preferred, or equivalent education and experience combination
  • Pay rate between $19.11/hr and $21.79/hr, dependent on experience
  • Work primarily supports adults with developmental disabilities at the Pocono Center
  • Access to ASCEND career accelerator program with tuition coverage and loan repayment benefits

Learning Specialist (Training) Full Description

Description: 
Are you a training professional with experience supporting, implementing, planning and coordinating trainings? Do you enjoy improving job performance? Does your experience include working within the mental health or developmental disabilities field?
 
If the above describes your passion, you could be the Learning Specialist that Devereux Pocono is looking for!
 
Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health Pocono Center provides programs and services for adults with developmental disabilities. Located in Newfoundland, PA the Learning Specialist schedules and delivers training and development to Devereux employees using a variety of instructional strategies and activities suited for adult learners. The Learning Specialist will coordinate, facilitate, monitor, evaluate, and record training activities as well as assist to create and develop training materials.
 
Being a Learning Specialist at Devereux Pocono has its Advantages!
You will work with other dedicated professionals who share your passion for helping individuals in need. We offer:
  • A chance to be part of something that supports the community you live in
  • A fun and fast-paced environment
  • A group of like-minded peers to share knowledge, thoughts and ideas within the field of Behavioral Health
  • Working environment that is collaborative with multidisciplinary team
  • The ability to interface with many levels of Leadership
  • A robust tuition assistance and development program
  • Excellent benefit package

Payrate: $19.11/hr-$21.79/hr dependent upon experience
 
You deserve to work somewhere that gives back to you! Devereux is proud to offer ASCEND – the first career accelerator program exclusively designed to give behavioral healthcare workers – the career guidance, one-on-one coaching, skills and financial assistance you need to reach your full potential. This program includes 100% of tuition covered (up to fifteen thousand dollars annually for undergraduate and twenty five thousand annually for graduate) and student loan repayment, among other benefits! 
 
Learn more about the Pocono Center!
 
Learn More about Devereux's Brand New ASCEND Program, Benefitting Our Hard-Working Healthcare Heroes!

Keywords: (training, learning, new hire orientation, behavioral health, trainer, presenter, non-profit, CPR)
 
#sponsored Qualifications: 

Education: Bachelor’s Degree in development, education, training, or related field preferred. A combination of education and experience may be considered.
 
Experience: Minimum of 1 years’ experience working within a behavioral healthcare setting. At least 1 year of experience conducting staff training and development, preferably in health care or social services setting. Instructor's certification in First Aid, CPR, and Crisis Prevention/Intervention preferred. Experience with learning management systems and data collection/analyzing platforms (Absorb, MyAvatar, and/or other internal and external software applications pertinent to the position) preferred.
 
Devereux has a zero-tolerance policy for abuse and maintains policies and procedures to systematically reduce the risk of abuse to occur in our organization. Devereux fosters a culture of reporting abuse, and will cooperate with the authorities to the fullest extent possible.