You and Your Employee Benefits

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Your Support and Development Opportunities P4

Your Financial Benefits P6

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Welcome to Doncaster Children’s Services Trust At the Trust, we value your skills, knowledge, experience, and contribution you bring to work every day to make a difference to the lives of children, young people and families. In recognition of your hard work, our way of saying thank you to you, we have a number of benefits available for you.

Our benefits range from support and development opportunities, helping you with your continuous professional development, as well as valuable discounts on the High Street and on those more luxury items, such as holidays and cars.

Your benefits Your Support and Development Opportunities

• Learning with the Trust

• Payment of professional membership fees

• Employee Assistance Programme

• Supporting your work/ life balance

• Staff awards

Your Financial Benefits • Blue Light discount scheme

• Car lease scheme

• Cycle to work

• Additional leave for long service

• Boosting your pension

• Savings on the high street

• Discount days out

• Savings when you eat out

• Mobile and broadband discounts

• Holiday and travel discounts

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Your Support and Development Opportunities Learning with the Trust At Doncaster Children’s Services Trust, we know that our staff value being supported to access further training, after all, you never stop learning. That’s why we support all our employees to develop their skills, knowledge and behaviours that will support them to thrive in their chosen career path.

To help you get started when you join the Trust, you will have an induction period where you will get to know all of our systems, procedures and policies.

There are lots of ways you can keep on learning at the Trust, be it through courses available via our online training portal, monthly ‘stop the clock sessions’ and courses with the South Yorkshire Teaching Partnership. And we also have courses to help develop our inspiring managers.

On top of this, every year through your annual personal development reviews (PDRs for short), your manager will work with you to identify any other additional professional qualifications you may wish to undertake in order to support you with your career development.

Payment of your professional memberships

Where relevant to the role, we will consider the funding of one professional subscription per annum for our employees. You can speak to your manager about this as part of your personal development review.

Employee Assistance Programme (PAM Assist)

We understand that life can have its ups and downs. That’s why we have a free confidential employee support service that is available 24/7 – PAM Assist.

Through the service, you can access professional support for a whole raft of issues, including family and relationship matters, debt, counselling, pressures of work, retirement and even advice on making healthy choices, among many others.

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Supporting you with your work/life balance

At the Trust, we will provide you with a wide range of flexible working arrangements and leave provision to support you develop your individual talents and have a rewarding working life that can be balanced against personal commitments and responsibilities.

• Annual Leave / Bank Holidays

• Adoption Leave

• Career breaks*

• Compassionate Leave

• Compressed Hours*

• Election Duty Leave*

• Additional days leave for length of service

• Flexible Retirement*

• Flexible Working*

• Flexi–leave

• Job Sharing*

• Maternity and Shared Paternity Leave

• Reduced Hours*

• Sabbaticals*

• Sick Leave and Sick Pay

• Study Leave

• Special Leave*

• Term Time Only Working*

• Trade Union Duties Leave

• Unpaid Leave*

*These options will have to support the business needs, but the flexibility of the Trust means that most options can be considered for the different roles. For more details speak to our HR team, details are at the end of this booklet.

Staff awards

We like to take the time to say thank you to our staff who go that extra mile in their role to make a difference to the lives of the children, young people and families we support. That’s why we have an annual staff awards ceremony to celebrate the work of our ‘stars’.

As well as our annual staff Star Awards, we also celebrate the achievements of our staff throughout the year at our staff summits.

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Your Financial Benefits At the Trust we have a number of benefits designed to help you make your money go a little further – it’s our way of saying thank you for all that you do.

Car Lease Scheme (Salary Sacrifice Scheme)

Offers all the advantages of having a new vehicle without the hassle and maintenance costs of owning it. Through our scheme with Tusker the cost of the vehicle is deducted from your salary before tax.

Cycle to Work Scheme (Salary Sacrifice Scheme)

Will be introduced during 2019.

Additional leave

Through our salary sacrifice scheme you can exchange salary for up to 10 days or 74 hours extra leave per financial year – or pro rata for part time staff.

In appreciation of long and loyal employees, we offer additional leave of up to 3 days for five years’ service and up to 2 days for ten years’ service.

Boosting your pension

Every month, if you wish to, you can make Additional Voluntary Contributions (AVCs) to help boost your Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).

Savings on the high street

With our Blue Light discount scheme membership, you can access 1000’s of savings and discounts from the high street retailers, supermarkets and online retailers. Discover savings on:

• 10% off New Look • 10% off Starbucks • 15% off Joules in store• 10% off Office shoes• 15% off Blacks • and many more

It’s not just on the high street. You can also make great savings on your travel and leisure costs such as Eurocamp, Holiday Extra, Hotels.com, Jet2Holidays, Forest Holidays, Travelodge and many more.

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Discounted days out :

Our scheme also helps staff to make savings on those days out with friends and family, including:

• Cinemas including Vue and Odeon• Alton Tower and Chessington World• Flipout

Savings when you eat out

You can access through our employee discount scheme 100s of savings at popular High Street restaurants including:

• 20% off Handmade Burger Co• 50% off pizza collection or 25% of pizza delivery from Domino Pizza • 20% off food at Hungry Horse pubs • 20% off Subway • 25% off Bella Italia• 25% off Cafe Rouge • 25% off Prezzo

Mobile and Broadband discounts

You can get exclusive discounts with providers O2, EE, Three, Sky, Plusnet and Virgin Media.

There are also offers on trading in your old phone for a new phone.

Salary sacrifice

Please be aware that benefits which are classed as salary sacrifice will result in your earnings being recorded as lower than the stated salary for your post and this may impact on other payments longer term, for example, your pension.

Find out more If you’ve got any questions about our employee benefits you can speak to HR team on 01302 736548 or email resourcing&hradmin@dcstrust.co.uk

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Doncaster Children’s Services Trust Limited Colonades House, Duke Street, Doncaster, DN1 1ER

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Registered in England and Wales No. 8805834 DCST36890120