Benefits
We are fully committed to looking after our employees in every possible way. That's why our range of benefits cover everything from helping you get to work and supporting you whilst you're there, to making sure you enjoy the time when you're not.
For a start we offer very competitive rates of pay compared to other London boroughs. (link back to website with salary details) We've also got one of the best pension schemes around, with an employee contribution of 6%, as well as generous maternity and paternity leave packages. Plus we can help you save money with childcare fees.
We may also be able to assist you with the cost of travelling to work, by offering car loan provisions, vehicle allowances for you to claim mileage and subsidised parking. In addition to this, we promote the use of public transport within our staff, and provide a 100% interest free season ticket loan.
We've also negotiated substantial discounts with numerous health and leisure companies.We also offer:
- Special staff discounts for local events at Forty Hall and Millfield Theatre
- Special discounts on entertainment, shopping and travel
It's not just your physical well being we take care of - we also run a confidential counselling service and telephone helpline, so you have all the support you need, whenever you need it.
Ensuring our employees achieve a healthy work-life balance is very important to us, and that's why we offer a variety of flexible working opportunities. These include:
- Part-time working
- Job sharing
- Compressed working hours
- Home-working and staggered hours
- Working during term time only
We also offer a generous annual leave package of up to 32 days per year. In addition to this, you'll also be entitled to eight public holidays per year and an extra day off at Christmas. You may also be able to transfer some of your leave entitlement from one year to the next. So that's a total of up to 41 days' leave per year.
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0 – 4 years |
5 – 9 years |
10 years + |
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Care Co-ordinator (Unqualified) |
25 days |
30 days |
31 days |
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Social Workers Qualified |
26 days |
31 days |
32 days |
The pay and benefits above are subject to post, grade and length of service.
And if you want to have a bit more time out, you could take up to five years off with our career break scheme – so you can look after your responsibilities outside of work, without jeopardising your career.
We want all our employees to realise their potential, so we offer numerous training schemes, secondments, shadowing, mentoring and action learning sets. And because we invest a lot in our people, we make sure we retain the talent we build by recruiting for new positions internally, helping you develop your career further.