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Learning and development

Learning and development

We are committed to enabling every single person we employ achieve their full potential. This is not only good in itself, it is also a route by which we create a skilled and flexible workforce.

Our aim is to ensure that opportunities are available to all our people to have the right development, at the right time. All development opportunities will be delivered using an engaging interactive style. Future learning and development programmes will focus on the following approaches:

• workshops
• action learning ‘sets’
• external qualifications
• short external courses
• on the job coaching
• lunchtime briefings.

In particular we will focus our development programmes on strengthening our ability to deliver our values.

 

Other areas of development include the following:

 

Induction

Every new employee attends a one day corporate induction within their first month, to familiarise themselves with what we do and how we work.

My personal review and development plan

All employees will be given time at a number of points in the year to spend with their manager to review their personal performance against objectives and values and to create a personal development plan.

Equalities

We are strongly committed to ensuring that all our employees and all applicants for employment will be given equal opportunity in all aspects of their employment, recruitment, training, and promotion regardless of:

• age
• appearance
• class
• colour, race, ethnic or national origin
• disability
• faith/religion or belief`
• family status
• gender, including transgender
• responsibilities for dependents
• sexual orientation
• unrelated criminal convictions.

 

Career development

In order to make it as easy as possible for you to consider developing your career within the company, we advertise all vacancies which need to be filled for more than six months.

Professional qualifications

We are keen to support you becoming professionally qualified.

Promotions and transfers

Our company is constantly changing. From time-to-time we need to make changes to the way we work. This sometimes involves either new jobs being created or current ones being changed. We are committed to supporting you as our business changes.

Sabbatical leave

Employees with five or seven years service will be entitled to apply for a sabbatical leave break for the purpose of personal development, travel or following outside interests.

Apprenticeships

We are committed to developing a pipeline of talent throughout the organisation, and apprenticeships are a key element of this.