Your Career at Southwark
A role at Southwark not only means an instant challenge and an opportunity to reinvigorate your working life, it also presents the opportunity to leave a lasting legacy of success on the landscape of London for the future residents of Southwark. The Finance Function across all directorates is a family of professionals who are growing ever closer via interdependency and mutual support, to ensure that the Council as a whole can meet the challenges that it will face over the coming years. A career with Southwark will mean progression, training, stimulation and the opportunity to be a part of a veritable landmark in Local Authorities, which will undoubtedly set a precedent of quality and success for years to come.
Career Development
Southwark recognises that their workforce is their greatest strength, and as such, they endeavour to provide staff with the tools to help them manage their own continuous personal development and individual careers.
There are a wide variety of job roles within the council and lots of opportunity for personal development. They are committed to life-long learning, recognising that we all continue to acquire new skills throughout our careers, and our lives. There are also many workshops and programme's available which will support your personal development.
Underpinning life-long learning; the council achieved Investor in People (IiP) status across the organisation in 2005.
Learning is about the acquisition of knowledge, skills and understanding that helps each of us perform new tasks or carry out existing tasks to a higher standard. We believe that building this into people’s career progression makes their jobs more rewarding and fulfilling.
Making Learning more accessible to you
Each of us like to learn things in a different way and our Organisational Development & Learning Unit provides a series of high quality workshops and programme's to meet the development needs of staff. These include traditional classroom activities, self-managed learning and e-learning courses each of which supports personal development within the council’s Performance Management System.
