Learning & Development

Induction programmes

When you join East Thames you can expect to receive important and useful information about East Thames including our mission, values and key aims; what you can expect from East Thames for instance your terms and conditions of service and what East Thames can expect from you, for example the code of conduct.

We know that joining a new organisation can sometimes be challenging and disorientating, so we will ensure that you have at least one full day facilitated induction to the Group. This will include a little about the history of  East Thames’, our  structure and services and a bus tour to take in some of our developments and services in the community.

You will also have a full workplace induction with your line manager and colleagues -  this can be anything from two weeks to three months depending on what you will be doing. We expect this time to be fun, challenging and rewarding and we hope that by the end of the induction you will understand East Thames and your place in it.

A Learning and Development Zone

We value continuous professional learning at East Thames and to support this we offer a variety of learning and development opportunities. One of these is a quiet area where you can choose to read a book or magazine from our library, go online and carry out research or practice skills with an interactive CD or DVD.  

A variety of service specific internal learning courses

Every six months we produce a new set of internal learning and development courses and learning events tailored to meet the needs of the business and employees’ learning needs.

Our aim is to constantly refresh all the learning courses we provide and we work to ensure that they are relevant, challenging, high quality and fun.

There may be some courses that you will need to do because of the type of job you will doing, for example Health and Safety courses. Your manager will identify these with you.

We encourage all employees to participate in learning  - and even facilitate courses if they have a particular skill or knowledge they want to share. We also ask for regular feedback about the quality of our courses to ensure that they are successful and appropriate.