People Survey: Spotlight on East of England

The East of England region are focusing on Wellbeing and Learning & Development as our People Survey priority areas.

Our Objectives are:

  • To improve the L&D offer to all, ensuring that colleagues are able to access the right development to support their delivery and career progression, ensuring this is timely, effective and drives performance.
  • To provide managers with the required skills and capabilities to lead their teams effectively, ensuring that they are able to adapt to individual needs and drive delivery of our regional and organisational objectives.
  • To create a comprehensive offer of wellbeing support to all colleagues, focussing on mental, physical and lifestyle health. Ensuring that information is provided in an accessible format, at a time required by the individual and is complemented with proactive awareness sessions on key topics (in advance of need) to support individual management of issues.

Progress so far

This year we have:

  • delivered three First Line Manager Core (FLMC) development programmes, resulting in 45 attendees to support their transition into a new leadership role
  • created a bespoke development offer for all middle managers to provide those leaders with a greater depth of capability
  • provided bitesize learning sessions on the use of SOP, Attendance Management, WFP and have delivered Success Profile awareness to over 100 managers
  • we are in the process of creating a dedicated wellbeing network across all PDU/Functions which enables support to be cascaded from the national and regional teams to the local area of need and also provides a route back to identify more local issues needing further engagement
  • launched a dedicated magazine to the promotion of wellbeing activities, including proactive guidance and advice on key topics
  • created a dedicated wellbeing platform, which provides information to staff on mental, physical and lifestyle health challenges and is accessible 24 hours a day
  • delivered bespoke initiatives across the region e.g. body MOTs, guidance on how to maintain core strength when working from a sedentary position, awareness sessions on the role of Occupational Health, Supporting the Workplace in Menopause (SWIM) network, Remploy, Civil Service Charity etc.
  • written L&D guidance for managers to explain the L&D offer and process
  • launched a Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Mentoring scheme for staff that will commence in September with mentoring being provided by SLT
  • created updated Induction guidance for line managers
  • commenced regular regional corporate inductions for new staff
  • published role specific Learning pathways for roles on the Probation Hub
  • promoted the use of apprenticeships
  • worked to ensure all staff completing VQ3 or CIPP qualifications are identified and progressed once ready.