Flexible working
Helping our staff to find the right work-life balance
We provide a range of flexible working and leave options to help staff find a work-life balance that works with our business needs and their circumstances.
Our current full time hours are 35 hours per week. Starting from 1 October 2024, full time working hours were be reduced from 37 hours to 35 hours per week without a reduction in pay. This effectively increases the value of our salaries by 5.7%.
Key benefits include:
- If you work a standard 37-hour week, you can choose to build up a maximum of 29 hours and 36 minutes in credit every four weeks, meaning you can take an extra 4 days off.
- 25 days annual leave rising to 30 days after 4 years’ service – pro rata for part time employees
- An additional 11.5 days public and privilege holidays
- Working patterns including full-time, part-time and job-share
- Flexi-time, term-time and compressed hours
- A wide range of roles suited to hybrid working
- Maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave
- Career breaks, phased and partial retirement
- A ‘Right to Disconnect Policy’ to enable staff to disengage from work outside normal working hours
