How we look after our people

Benefits

Financial

• Pension of up to 9% employer contribution to your pension, when you contribute 3%
• Death in service payment worth 4x your salary
• Enhanced sick pay increasing with length of service
• Free will writing service for colleagues
• Cycle to work scheme for tax saving on bikes
• Tech and home scheme with savings at Currys and IKEA
• Discounted travel with annual passes, allows you to save as much as £100 on travel
• Discounts with major retailers through Westfield Rewards and CACHEback

Benefits

Project YOU

• Learning and wellbeing fund of up to £200 a year to undertake learning or activities that support your ongoing wellbeing
• £400 towards an NCFE qualification
• Development time of two hours per month for work related learning
• Volunteering – our Community Time Bank allows you up to 20 hours a year to volunteer
• Paid for professional subscriptions that are relevant to your role
• Coaching and mentoring through our trained team of internal coaches

Benefits

Time away from work

• Annual leave starting at 25 days and increasing with length of service up to 30 days per
  annum (33 for leadership) + 3 additional days off at Christmas and your bank holidays
• YOU celebration day to celebrate your birthday or another life event, in addition to annual leave
• Long service celebration additional time off to celebrate long service
• Buy and sell holiday gives you the option to buy an extra 3 days or sell remaining leave at the end of the year
• Childcare and parenting support through enhanced maternity provision
• Flexible working culture with a hybrid working approach
• Early finish on a Friday at 4.30pm, with a 37 hour working week for full time colleagues

Benefits

Physical and
mental health

• Health cash plan through Westfield for you to claim towards health costs such as dental and optical
• Employee assistance programme with a confidential helpline and access to face to face and telephone counselling
• Doctor line enables you to get treated ASAP with same day appointments and prescriptions with a Doctor
• Mental health first aiders who are trained to support colleagues
• YOU hour allows you 1 hour per month to spend time on something that promotes your wellbeing

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Development and performance

We ensure that all colleagues have clarity regarding accountabilities and expectations, and how their contribution links to organisational goals, objectives and successes.

We have a supportive and developmentally focused performance culture that is enabled through a clear focus on outcomes and impact, performance transparency and collegiate and interdependent ways of working.

Fairness, equality
and diversity

We ensure that fairness is carefully considered and implemented in all our policies, procedures and ways of working.

We build rich diversity into our workforce, at all levels, to ensure that we best understand and are representative of the communities and customers that we serve.

We create the environment and mechanisms to ensure that all colleagues have the opportunity to have their say and be heard.

Download our Vision for our people document to learn more.