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People Development at Great Places

Your growth and development is important to us here at Great Places. Our ambition is to continuously professionalise our organisation and industry, we offer a comprehensive suite of learning programmes and role related training and qualifications.

We invest in future talent through developing our apprentices and graduates as part of our Growing Greatness programme, which focuses on mentoring, networking and apprenticeship qualifications.

What to expect

The Great Welcome

The Great Welcome is our face-to-face induction experience, giving you need-to-know information about what it’s like to work at Great Places.

During the day you’ll have the opportunity meet colleagues from around the business and chat with members of our senior leadership team. You’ll find out all about our culture and the ways we support you during your career at Great Places.

Growing Greatness

As a business, we’re committed to developing future talent from early on and we pride ourselves on being a great provider of excellent opportunities for those looking to progress in a career pathway of their choice.

Our Growing Greatness programme forms part of our learning and development offer and is our entry-level programme. This is largely aimed at apprentices and graduates to support them into the working world and beyond.

Great Conversations

At Great Places, we really believe in the power of conversations to connect us, to solve issues and to drive change. We want to equip all our colleagues to have Great Conversations with whoever they come across in their role.

Our workshops are designed to help you reflect on the conversations you’re already having and think about what we can all do to take them from good to Great!

Raise the roof

By strengthening our service and experience through leadership, leading brilliant basics within the housing sector, ensuring effective management of governance and regulation, and evidencing expertise to develop credibility, we aim to excel in our field.

Professional Development

Growing our people through professional development is so important to us at Great Places – and we don’t want anyone to miss out on opportunities to learn!

Investing in you

At Great Places we spend more than £1,400 per colleague every year on training to help our colleagues attain their goals.