Learning and Development

Committed to helping you fulfil your potential

Unlock the opportunities in your career

At Sutton we encourage all staff to continuously learn and develop. We are committed to helping you grow your skills, knowledge and expertise so that you can achieve your full potential, and support the organisation in achieving its corporate plan, "Ambitious for Sutton". Your development is important on many different levels – to the organisation, to the team you work in, our service users, and to you personally – enabling you to succeed at Sutton and beyond.

Corporate Training

We support our staff in realising the benefits and embracing the opportunities of new ways of working and to comply with statutory requirements. The programme is a blend of virtual courses, workshops, digital learning and resources across the following categories:

new starters & induction
mandatory learning - data protection and cyber security, fraud awareness, prevent, health and safety, diversity and inclusion in the workplace
essential skills - personal, functional skills and networking skills
health and wellbeing
leadership & management - Aspiring Managers programme
digital resources - My Learning, IT Community Exchange (ICE)

Along with the traditional ways of learning such as workshops and courses, we offer a catalogue of ‘on-demand’ digital learning to support you, as well as recommendations of other ways for you to learn and develop; including coaching, mentoring, reverse mentoring, buddying, shadowing and action learning sets. There is also information about supporting your career development through our Apprenticeships and achieving professional qualifications.

For more information contact Learning.Engagement@sutton.gov.uk‍‍

Health and Social Care Training

This refers to mandatory, essential and skills training to comply with the requirements of professional bodies codes of standards and best practice across health and social care service providers such as:

legal requirement and update training
restorative practice and trauma informed training
person centred and strength based training
assessment and report writing skills
moving and handling people
medication awareness
infection control and prevention

For more information visit: https://suttontraining.event-booking.org/

Sutton Partnership Training

This refers to mandatory and essential training provided by the SEND partnership and adults and children safeguarding partnership such as:

Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) core requirement training and a range of topics to embed learning about special education needs and disabilities
safeguarding training in line with competency requirements
training, masterclasses, workshops and learning events to embed statutory partnership guidance, multi-agency local protocols and service procedures.