Working for Us
All our employees receive a range of benefits including:
- National pay increases negotiated annually
- Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme – including immediate life insurance cover, a tax free lump sum and a secure career average pension
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and parental leave above the statutory minimum
- Generous paid sick leave from your first year of employment rising to 6 months full pay after five years’ service
- Generous holiday entitlement rising to 32 days annual leave dependent on length of service and pay band, plus eight bank holidays and one concessionary day at Christmas
- Discounted leisure membership at council owned leisure centres
- Discounted car parking at 11 town centre car parks
- 10% discount at the Market Café
- Payment of professional fees
- Access to a full range of occupational health services