Develop with us

You’ll be invited to a welcome meeting to help you settle into your team. This will ensure you are comfortable and happy to take on the job and know how to stay safe in the workplace. 

You will be invited to attend a brief informal induction after joining us, giving you a better idea of PCH, our Values and Behavioural expectations. 

New starters will complete a six-month probation. The probationary period allows you and the organisation to assess each other’s suitability. We’ll meet every two months to see how things are going. 

We want you to like it here with PCH and we will provide you with objective feedback about how well you are doing and what, if anything, you may need to achieve to be successful. We will consider any additional training that can support you.

You will have regular contact with your line manager and how often these happen may be different depending on your role. We genuinely care about how you’re getting on at PCH and these meetings are an opportunity to look at your progress, talk about any issues that you may be facing or any health or domestic issues. You can talk to your line manager or speak to HR in confidence if anything is bothering you. 

You can also discuss the effectiveness of any support or adjustments made as a result of a disability. Your line manager will provide you with notes from your meeting.

An outline structure of a 1 to 1 meeting is available for your reference on the intranet.

You will have regular 1 to 1 meetings with your line manager. The frequency of these meetings may vary, but as a rule, these will be every 4 to 6 weeks. We genuinely care about how you’re getting on at PCH and these meetings are an opportunity to review progress and raise any issues that you may be facing or any health or domestic issues. You can also discuss the effectiveness of any support or adjustments made as a result of a disability. Your line manager will provide you with a set of notes from your meeting.

Some employees may not have 1 to 1 meetings and will have collective toolbox talks. This doesn’t mean you can’t request a 1 to 1 meeting at any time with your manager. 

An outline structure of a 1 to 1 meeting is available for your reference on the intranet.

Our Talent Management and Staff Development Programme ensures that you have the skills and knowledge to do your job well and safely. We want to learn from you to find out how we can deliver excellent services for our residents so always feel free to let us know what you think. 

We work with training providers as a partnership to make sure that we provide you with the skills you need to carry out your role.  

For more information, contact the Learning and Development Team.

To support the values we have as an organisation, we have our training program. We think this training is essential for everyone working in social housing, whatever their role. 

The program is run by HR and you will get details of any courses we would like you to attend. 

If you are invited to take part in a particular course, but unable to attend due to sickness absence or pre–booked leave you will be required to let your line manager know as soon as possible. 

Appraisals take place every year. This is a chance for you and your manager to look at your progress against your agreed objectives for the year. 

You will have the chance to talk about any learning and development needs you might need to support you in your role.

We have also developed a framework which tells us what a good job for our customers and each other looks like. Your manager will help you to understand any support you might need to reach our standards.

All job vacancies are shown on Jannet.     

We do advertise externally when needed, but we want internal applicants to apply.

From time to time we are able to offer secondments to jobs within the organisation which offer experience and development opportunities to our staff.  

We encourage secondments but it will depend on the need of your team before you can be seconded. You should speak to your manager before you apply for any secondment.

For more details and information on applying for a secondment please refer to the Secondment Procedure.