Wellbeing advice, guidance and self help
The wellbeing of our employees is vital for a healthy workforce. Whatever your concern, our friendly Employee Wellbeing team are on hand to offer specialised wellbeing advice.
Our offer includes access to talking therapies, a network of Mental Health Champions, a programme of mindful interventions as well as wellbeing and stress management advice and workshops.
We recognise that people perform better when they can be themselves and that by creating a diverse workforce, we’ll get the most from our employees. We are a Disability Confident employer, currently holding ‘Level 1- Disability Confident’ accreditation and are actively working with external agencies to achieve Level 2. We are also a Stonewall Diversity champion.
Learning and development
We support and encourage learning and development and provide a range of training opportunities which will help with your personal development and career progression. Our offer includes
- an excellent induction programme to help you settle in and to learn about how Dorset Council works
- access to our interactive learning experience platform, The Learning Hub which provides video content, bitesize learning as well as eLearning modules which you can complete as and when it suits you
- in-house coaching and mentoring available to all
- apprenticeship programmes
- virtual workshops delivered by our in-house team and external experts
- leadership and management development