Section 4: Policies procedures and information

We aspire to be an effective learning charity, giving all colleagues, no matter where they work or what role they do, access to a great range of resources to help us all belong, grow and thrive.

The overall purpose of learning and development in Barnardo’s is to:

■ support all colleagues to achieve their potential at work

■ ensure that everyone is skilled and able to deliver their service in line with their role requirements and in pursuit of excellence

■ provide colleagues with relevant and accessible learning and development opportunities for development and growth

■ support Barnardo’s to meet the priorities of the charity

■ ensure that everyone’s learning and development needs are identified effectively

■ learn together from our experiences, making the charity more efficient, and effective, from incremental day to day improvement to transforming entire systems

■ make learning central to everything that we do, now and for the future.

Our learning offer is structured around three layers of learning:

Fundamentals, Focus and Curious. These layers include mandatory learning, learning tailored to your role covering technical and behavioural skills, and learning that will enable to explore new skills and your wider development.

Please visit our learning space on Inside Barnardo’s Learning and development | Inside Barnardo’s to explore the full learning offer.

Barnardo’s has made a commitment to all colleagues for a minimum of 3 days learning a year (pro rata for part time colleagues) in addition to core learning for your role.

We encourage you to discuss your learning needs and ambitions with your line manager during your induction, supervision or your performance review. Use the resources available on Inside Barnardo’s under ‘Learning and development’ to complete all mandatory learning and to support your individual needs. Your manager will support and direct you, but it is important to take personal responsibility and action for your continued learning, whether to fulfil your existing job to the best of your ability, or to learn new skills to enable career progression.