Learning and Development
Meaningful appraisals
All staff have an annual appraisal to develop a clear career pathway and identify the support needed to help you get where you want to go. Our appraisals are an opportunity for you to reflect, alongside your manager, on your achievements over the past year, identify any training needs, and put the support in place to help you achieve your career goals. The Trust operates an appraisal window each year, which means everyone at CWPT will be invited for their appraisal over a four-month period. Staff should login to the Trust's Talent Platform to fill in their appraisal ahead of meeting with their manager to help aid the discussion and give time to reflect.
Library and Knowledge Services
Library and Knowledge Services can support your wellbeing in several ways:
- A 'Support your Wellbeing' book collection for you to borrow from and a guide to freely available online wellbeing resources. Themes include Mindfulness, Managing depression, anxiety and insomnia, and bereavement amongst others.
- A wide collection of fiction and non-fiction free time books, including a mood-boosting collection.
- 4 quiet library spaces, where staff can come for a break or get on with work away from the bustle of the office.
More information can be found on their website's 'Wellbeing Resources' page:
Register for a library account
You can also find useful information in the coaching leaflet, useful list of wellbeing books, and mentoring leaflet.
Learning and Development Team
From an induction focused on your wellbeing to a range of statutory and mandatory training subjects to support you in your role, the training team are here to support your development.
The team provide opportunities to become a Mental Health First Aider and a First Aider at Work. They also provide management training for existing and aspiring managers alongside opportunities to access psychometric assessment to enhance your self-development and coaching programmes, leading to nationally recognised qualifications.
Our head office, Wayside House, in Coventry is home to a fantastic Learning Hub. Training is also delivered in dedicated venues at Brooklands Hospital in Marston Green and Woodloes House in Warwick.
You can discover our full range of in-house training course in our training brochure:
Many of these training courses, including statutory and mandatory training, are bookable online via the Trust's Talent Platform.
Coaching
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust fully supports the use of coaches and mentors within the workplace setting and actively encourages you to explore this opportunity.
Coaching is available to provide you with positive support and feedback on individual or group objectives. For those people who have a coach they may find that they feel more supported and motivated, it can increase confidence and ultimately improve performance. A coach will help you reach your full potential and can be used to help you reach specific goals within work and beyond.
The Recovery and Wellbeing Academy
Staff can access a wide range of free educational courses and workshops through the Recovery and Wellbeing Academy. The academy provides the opportunity to increase your knowledge and skills to support your own mental health and wellbeing.
Talent for Care Team
Our dedicated Talent for Care Team is in place to support the development of new talent and existing members of staff at CWPT. They provide advice to help people get ready, get in, get on and go further in their career in the NHS. They support staff to access a wide range of qualifications and development programmes including apprenticeships, distance learning, Functional Skills, the Care Certificate and more. Have a query for the team? You can contact them on TalentforCare@covwarpt.nhs.uk.