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Staff Benefits

Staff Bonus Scheme

  • Staff Introduction Scheme – £250.00

Staff Recognition Award Scheme

  • Colin Richardson Award:
    • £150.00 Individual Award
    • £250.00 Group Award
  • Bright Ideas scheme (staff suggestion scheme) – £25.00
  • Quality & Financial Budget Award per service (£20.00 per head – £6k spent in the last year)

Recognition of Satisfactory Service

Length of Satisfactory Service Staff Group (holding substantive/permanent contract) Benefits/method of recognition
Following successful completion of 6 month probation All staff groups
  • Entitlement to annual pay award and annual increment (as appropriate)
  • Interest free Car Loan (for essential car users only)
  • Interest free interest loan for annual travel ticket
  • Where appropriate, support for professional qualifications
  • (e.g. financial/study leave – see Training and Development
3 Years All staff groups
  • Unpaid sabbatical for up to 6 months with a guarantee of returning to own post on return
  • £30 high street vouchers
  • Congratulatory / expression of thanks letter to be signed by HR.
  • Where appropriate, support for professional qualifications
  • (e.g. financial/study leave – see Training and Development
5 Years All staff groups
  • 1 day’s extra annual leave
  • Congratulatory/expression of thanks letter to be signed by HR
10 Years All staff groups
  • One off award of £100
  • Optional Recognition and presentation of the award at the Annual Review
  • £30 Contribution towards farewell party
  • Congratulatory / expression of thanks letter to be signed by HR.
15 Years All staff groups
  • 2 days extra annual leave
  • One off award of £150
  • Optional recognition of the award at the Annual Review
  • £40 Contribution towards farewell party
20 Years All staff groups
  • Long Service award ceremony with presentation of a gift to the value of £175 by user of the service.
  • £50 Contribution towards farewell party
25 Years All staff groups
  • Long Service award ceremony with presentation of a gift to the value of £200 by user of the service.
  • £75 Contribution towards farewell party
  • 1 day extra annual leave

In Work Support – Occupational Sick Pay

Continuous Service
From		 Entitlement
Up to
0 16 Weeks 1 calendar month full salary
16 weeks 1 year 1 calendar month full salary, plus a further 2 calendar month’s half salary
1 year 2 years 2 calendar months full salary, plus a further 2 months half salary
2 years 3 years 4 calendar months full salary, plus a further 4 months half salary
3 years 5 years 5 calendar months full salary, plus a further 5 months half salary.
5 years Onwards 6 calendar months full salary, plus a further 6 months half salary.

Occupational Health Support

  • Starting a new Job assessment – fit for the job
  • Ill health referrals – supporting absence management
  • Health Surveillance/Screening

Employee Assistance Programme

  • Telephone Counselling
  • Face to Face Counselling Support
  • Online Website Support
  • Legal Advice
  • Financial & Debt Assistance
  • Childcare & Eldercare Support Advice
  • Work Support Information & Advice
  • Consulting Everyday Issues Advice

Simply Health

  • Cash Plan

Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Pay

  • Paternity Leave : Less than 2 years service – 1 week 50% of Salary + statutory £138.00( 2 weeks)
  • Maternity Leave:  With 2 years service – 20 weeks half pay +  39 weeks statutory £138.00 (may be split between carers)

Flexible Working Options (Subject to service requirements)

  • Job share
  • Part-time working
  • Annualised hours
  • Compressed Hours
  • Flexitime
  • Term-time working
  • Swapping Hours
  • Voluntary-reduced working time
  • Working from home (where appropriate and where required equipment is available and safe) or remotely at another service
  • Flexible shift Working

Sabbatical leave (1yr) application (Subject to service requirements)

  • Only available once to an employee who have worked 5 years or more with Vibrance.

Pensions

DC Scheme Auto-enrolment including Life Assurance

Learning & Development

£225.00 per head

  • Mandatory Training
  • Induction training (3/6months probation)
  • Development training
  • Specialist training
  • Management Development

Salary Extras (Salary Sacrifice scheme)

  • Childcare Vouchers (no new members to the scheme after October 2018) members only
  • Bike Scheme
  • Computer Scheme    

Mindful Employer

  • Positive About Mental Health signed up to Employers Charter
  • Training staff awareness
  • Recruitment
  • In work support   

Positive about Disability

  • Positive About Disability  signed up to Employers Charter
  • Training staff awareness   
  • Access to work funding
  • Recruitment
  • In work support

DBS

  • On line applications paid by Vibrance

Eye Test

  • Eye Test Vouchers provided