At Â鶹Դ´ our employees matter and we understand the importance of rewarding our staff and promoting a healthy work-life balance.
We have therefore designed a competitive flexible benefits package to incentivise and engage our staff and show them how much we appreciate everything they do.
We recognise that from time to time people fall ill and we have a generous scheme in place based on length of service to support you when this happens.
We realise the importance of supporting your loved ones and offer a generous life assurance policy for all our staff.
We operate an auto enrolment work place pension which is managed and operated by Standard Life. New staff are automatically enrolled three months after they start with Â鶹Դ´. Contributions are in line with statutory requirements, however you can pay a higher percentage into your pension if you wish (please contact the Human Resources department for further details).
You can claim back the cost of your eye test and the cost of glasses, solely for VDU use.
We understand that not everyone wants the same benefits so we have teamed up with Perkbox to offer you a fantastic range of benefits to choose from yourself.
Some of the benefits include, health cash plan, Denplan, half price cinema tickets, free mobile phone insurance, 20% off Virgin trains, discounted private health insurance, discounted gym membership, hundreds of high street discounts and much more.
We are committed to supporting a family friendly environment for our employees and therefore offer a very competitive occupational maternity/paternity pay.
We also recognise that you may occasionally need time off to care for a dependant that has fallen ill or to deal with a serious personal/family issue. We therefore have a scheme in place to help you deal with those instances including some paid time off and/or unpaid leave.
At Â鶹Դ´ we have a competitive holiday entitlement of 25-days per year plus bank holidays.
In addition to our generous holiday entitlement we also operate a two week Christmas closure period.
All our staff receive an additional day off for their birthday.
We recognise that not everyone is comfortable discussing personal things at work so we provide a free support line and counselling service through Perkbox that can offer support for emotional issues, e.g. anxiety, depression, stress, legal issues including employment law, family property or debt management.
We are committed to the health and wellbeing of our employees and therefore committed to a work/life balance. All eligible employees are entitled to make a flexible working request under our flexible working policy.
We are committed to the ongoing learning and development of its employees and support many courses that can help you develop your skills. CPD requests should be made through your line manager.
We are committed to employee wellbeing and offer employee’s the opportunity to join Evans' Ride to Work Scheme. The scheme can help you save money on a bike and spread the cost through salary sacrifice.
Every summer we host a family BBQ at each campus where staff can bring their family along to a fun filled afternoon of activities and food.
Our staff led events committee meets regularly to plan the year’s events in line with what staff want and feedback from previous events to ensure that Â鶹Դ´ remains a great place to work.
At the end of the month we provide brunch or lunch to all of our staff, including pizza, pastries, prosecco and more.
We throw a staff awards dinner and party every year to celebrate all the hard work and commitment that everyone puts in throughout the year.
We host a back to work conference to update staff on key issues for the year ahead. This also provides an opportunity to network across the business.