How do we support you?
We want you to enjoy your work and we provide valuable support for both your professional and home life.
General Benefits 🕔
Flexible working – statutory requests, hybrid working model, flexitime, and time off in lieu (if working for the Trust outside of your normal contracted role).
Comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme - with leading workplace wellbeing provider, Health Assured
Days out - wellbeing events and activities
Office perks - free hot drinks, free on-site parking and bike storage area
Financial Benefits 💵
Pay – competitive salary benchmarked externally against the not for profit sector; on-call allowance is provided for specific roles; rewarding performance, subject to meeting ongoing satisfactory performance levels, enabling you to progress through pay band (for positions with spinal column point (SCP) range)
Annual leave – 23 days plus bank holidays, rising to 25 days after 3 years' service. Pro-rata for part time staff.
Company Sick Pay – Up to 1 year's service you receive 3 months' full pay and 3 months' half pay. After 1 year's service this increases by 1 week's full pay and 1 week's half pay for each additional year of service, up to a cap of 6 months' full pay and 6 months' half pay.
Pension scheme – 4% employee and 4% employer contribution including salary sacrifice facility. Option available to opt out.
Life assurance scheme – 2 years' salary
Cycle to work scheme (salary sacrifice)
Learning and Development 💡
5 paid learning & development days for full time staff (pro-rata for part time)
Commitment to professional development programme
Performance development review process
Health and Family 💕
Special leave – Generous, supportive and flexible approach to special leave including 5 paid days' for each of the following: Time Off for Dependents, Compassionate Leave, Bereavement Leave, and other paid leave where suitable.
Concessionary Days - Considered on a year by year basis by the Trust whether to close between the Christmas and New Year period (three FTE working days plus bank holidays), resulting in all staff (excluding on call staff) taking the same period off called a ‘Circuit Breaker’. These days are in addition to the annual leave entitlement.
Eye tests - £25 contribution for eye tests and £65 contribution to glasses
Annual flu jab
Occupational Health assistance as required
Allowances and Discounts %
Discounts at Cotswold Outdoor, Snow + Rock, Runners Need
Professional subscriptions
Corporate clothing, including PPE, for staff requiring to wear this as part of their job description or specific tasks