Learning and Development

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At Worcestershire County Council we're committed to investing in your learning and development. Starting with a structured induction programme which will compliment a broad portfolio of learning and development options for people in all areas at all levels of the organisation.

While it's good for your career, it's great for us too. The more skilled and experienced you are the more valuable you are to our organisation. There's an array of internal courses to help you get to grips with all sorts of skills, including specialist courses for managers.

• Learning & Development
• Worcestershire Competency Framework – sets out clearly the behaviours which have been identified as being important within our organisation. They help us achieve ourPriorities and support our Valuesand Ways of Working.
• Staff Review & Development Scheme (SRD) – is our staff appraisal scheme. All staff have an SRD and it forms part of the Council's People Strategy. It provides a personal business plan for staff by enabling everyone to explore their job, the strengths they bring to their work, training needs and establishing high level objectives for the year. It then follows these throughout the year before reviewing how things went at year-end.

We offer our employees:

• IBS Training – includes a range of ICT courses
• Corporate Training – this includes soft skills, and generic courses as well as Personal Development, Management Development and Chartered Management Institute Qualifications