We have a range of flexible working initiatives to help you balance your work and life commitments. These include home working, working from ‘drop in centres' in other locations, job sharing and career breaks. We have a bespoke broadband link with leading-edge IT equipment and can now offer staff the ability to work with full connectivity and email access from home.
If you are applying for a post and interested in job sharing, please state this on your application form and list the hours you would like to work.
Annual leave
We provide a minimum of 25 days annual leave (including two days at Christmas), increasing with your length of service and grade.
Applicants will find specific entitlements outlined in the Job Pack for each vacancy.
Flexibility
- Flexi-time — you can vary your start, finish and lunch times and take up to two flexi-days leave a month for hours you have worked over and above your standard 37 hour week (or your equivalent part-time hours). This flexitime scheme is not available to LMG managers.
- Home working — providing a choice for employees about where they want to carry out their work.
- Annualised hours and part-year or term-time working — allowing employees to work a specific number of hours or weeks during the year.
- Job sharing — an arrangement between two (or more) people to share the duties, roles and responsibilities of a full-time post.
- Career breaks — allowing employees the ability to take between six months and five years unpaid leave to pursue work or non-work related interests.
Support when you need it the most
- Maternity and paternity benefits — up to 26 weeks' paid leave for mothers and two weeks' paid leave for fathers. Mothers can take up to a year's leave after the birth of their child with the opportunity to request to return to work either full time or on a job sharing basis.
- Adoption leave — up to 26 weeks' paid leave for those adopting.
- Parental leave — up to 13 weeks' unpaid leave for those wishing to spend more time with their children.
- Occupational sick pay — we offer different levels of occupational sick pay depending on length of service.
- Compassionate leave — up to two weeks' paid leave on compassionate grounds.
- Dependent care leave — short periods of unpaid leave for employees who need to look after a dependent in an emergency situation.
- Special paid leave — there are a wide range of activities for which special paid leave may be granted, including membership of public bodies, jury service, Territorial Army service and trade union duties.
- Special unpaid leave — for occasions when, for other personal reasons, an employee needs to take leave, for example an urgent mechanical problem with a car.
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