Personal and Professional Development Offer

This resource, which is for all staff, service users and carers, sets out many of the development opportunities available to us in 2021/22, within CNTW and through our partnerships with other organisations. 

It is designed around a suggested leadership and management development pathway so people can see the typical kinds of development which may help them when thinking about their next career step.  However, leadership and management development are only one part of this resource.  

We hope there is something here for everyone and we hope that the resource will grow and expand as we capture new and changing development opportunities as they come along, but please let us know if there is anything you feel is missing just now.

How it can be used.

It is designed to support the development of everyone – staff and service users and carers

it supports our ambitions to be a Great Place to Work and Receive Care (our strategic aims) and underpins the Trust Strategy, values, and behaviours, for example it supports:

  • delivery of our Together: service users and carer involvement strategy
  • work to ensure we are an inclusive care provider and employer
  • our ongoing development as a Learning Organisation
  • how we deliver the NHS People Plan and People Promise
  • ongoing efforts to attract, recruit, identify, grow our own and retain our talent (that’s all of us!)

It is divided into 6 sections, shown in the picture to the right, it: 

  • starts with sharing opportunities for us all to think about and pursue, no matter our role or (future) aspirations
  • sets out a suggested pathway for leadership and management development if this is of interest to you
  • is separated into two parts – (1) development opportunities we can access here in CNTW, including advice and guidance and, (2) opportunities available to us, externally, through partnerships we have with, for example, Universities, Health Education England, Royal and  Recovery Colleges, Leadership Academies.

We hope you use this resource throughout the year to help shape and continue your personal and/or professional development.

Whether you are a member of staff and/or an Appraiser, it will be particularly useful in supporting appraisal conversations.  We suggest you use it when

  • preparing for an appraisal, 
  • agreeing objectives, 
  • during your career conversation, 
  • when identifying/agreeing development needs/plans

If you have responsibility for the development of others it can be used to identify individual and collective development needs/gaps (Continuous Professional Development (CPD) or skills audit or training needs analysis for example) and more generally it can be used to support workforce and succession planning and fair and effective allocation of resource including study leave.

If there is anything you’d like added now please let us know. 

The offer will be reviewed and refreshed on an ongoing basis to ensure it remains current so please feel free to send us information throughout the year as things stand down and new opportunities become available   

All comments, feedback, and additions welcomed – please email: 

Emma Shipley emma.shipley@cntw.nhs.uk

Fiona MacCallum fiona.macCallum@cntw.nhs.uk

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