Senior Learning Partner Review

Strategic leadership in driving forward the departmental capability strategy and creating a continuous learning culture. Involves stakeholder engagement at a senior level, line management of staff, consultancy to understand capability gaps and researching to find suitable learning. Management of a learning budget and communications to promote learning offer.

The programme is well structured but there is no option to defer module sessions if you fall behind. My cohort are all at different places which makes some virtual classroom session difficult as we are not all at the same place to have a meaningful discussion as part of the learning. The virtual sessions are usually only 45 - 60 minutes which makes them feel very rushed at times.

My employer is fantastic, I have dedicated time of each week to study and if for any reason that is not possible another time is made available for me to ensure that I can study each week.

My Skills Coach is always available if I need them, they are supportive and encourage me when I have a wobble. They give really constructive feedback which helps me grow in confidence.

My Line Manager has seen an improvement in my confidence and knowledge enabling now working comfortably at their grade when they are on leave

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We have a great culture in DWP, our values run through all we do, we have access to a wealth of learning and talent programmes to enable growth, job satisfaction and career progression. From day one you are supported and encouraged to grow, as employee (role dependent) there are employee benefits like hybrid working, flexible working, benefits schemes and opportunities to move sideways in your career as well as progress upwards.