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Your professional development

We take our people’s progression and development seriously.

Learning and development

We support your career development in a variety of ways, including mentoring, training courses tailored to your role, professional apprenticeships, development and qualifications programmes to help you grow both your technical and leadership skills, and regular opportunities to share knowledge with and learn from colleagues.

Everyone at MHCLG is expected to spend at least 5 days per year on their professional development. We encourage our people to do more, through a number of routes that we are continually developing.

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"Development opportunities are available if you’d like to go for them. I've had the chance to increase my knowledge of Azure and complete two certifications. I’ve been encouraged to dedicate time to learn from others, whether it be a quick team intro to learn about their responsibilities, longer technical workshops, or joining CTO meetings to better understand our projects and processes. The mentorship scheme has also been a highlight. I was matched early on with someone from the SAP team, enabling me to learn more about a different role in MHCLG as well as having someone outside the team to chat to."

Leah, Cloud Engineer

“When you join MHCLG, you can expect that you’ll be supported. We really invest in learning and development, encourage people to learn by doing and give them the space to be bold and innovate.”

Gill Stewart, Chief Digital and Information Officer

We are also building clear career pathways to enable current and aspiring digital professionals to pursue fulfilling careers and move between disciplines.

In addition, we are exposed to a wide variety of projects, which helps our people learn and develop their experience and new skills faster.

Communities of practice

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We also have a number of active communities of practice across delivery, technology, user-centred design, product, and continue to grow more of them, to enable our people to exchange ideas, solve problems together, learn and grow professionally.

You have regular opportunities to share knowledge, join show and tell sessions, and access government digital and data community networks.

“We have a really engaged community of software developers and digital professionals, with regular community of practice sessions and opportunities to learn from other internal and external teams. I’ve also had opportunities to work on a wide range of features and parts of our stack, from DevOps and security to integrating with other systems and doing the technical design for whole features.

Marc, Senior Developer

“I genuinely couldn’t feel more supported in my role with MHCLG. It’s been the most supportive and encouraging work environment I’ve experienced. The opportunities for growth and development are fantastic, with a genuine opportunity to work on products and services that make a huge difference to millions of people across the UK.”

Evan, Senior Agile Delivery Manager

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