Supporting you

We recruit the best!  So if you come and work for us we need to make sure you want to stay with us.   We benchmark our salaries against other similar organisations and make sure we offer a competitive salary for each role.

Employees are auto-enrolled in to our pension scheme with a contribution of 9.5% from the Trust and a contribution from you of at least 4%.  Our pension scheme is with Royal London and you can monitor your investments online.

Should the worst happen, all our employees are covered by our life assurance scheme which will provide 3 times your salary to your beneficiaries.

Full time staff get 25 days holiday, plus 8 public holidays a year. And on top of that, we give 3 concessionary days between Christmas and New Year.   Annual leave is pro-rata if you work part time.

From time to time we all need to rebalance our work and home lives.  The Trust is always ready to talk to staff about ways we may be able to support this – reduced hours, occasional home working, flexible workings patterns – if we can accommodate your needs, we will.

Starting or growing your family?  If you have worked for the Trust for 26 weeks or more we will provide enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave over and above your statutory entitlement. 

We offer Childcare vouchers through Computershare. Childcare vouchers are a great way to make significant savings in the cost of providing childcare as they are paid for direct from your salary without having tax and National Insurance deducted from them (how much you save will depend on how much you earn and what tax allowances you have, but is likely to be about 32%).  

We put a big emphasis on learning and development for all staff at the Trust and are keen to help you with your career and professional development.

This annual review is your opportunity to talk through your achievements for the last year, review where your development programme has reached and look at your goals and development for the next year.  As well as the annual PDR, you will also have regular one to ones with your manager, where you can discuss the best way to resolve any issues and celebrate successes.

We provide a 24 hour helpline via our partners at Health Assured.  This is a fully confidential service available to our employees, and for some services their families.The helpline covers a wide range of areas that may be causing concerns – legal, health, stress and anxiety, debt, bereavement, substance abuse.

If you spend a lot of time looking at a computer screen, you're entitled to an eye test (every two years).

We’ll provide most employees with a PC or laptop and, if necessary, a mobile phone. We have a small fleet of vehicles which are available on a pool system for staff business use. 

Recognising and celebrating our employees’ achievements is really important to us and we do this through a variety of ways, both locally within individual teams and recognising our rising stars across the whole wider organisation.