Your health and wellbeing

Work life balance
We offer flexibility through various schemes including job sharing, home working, flexible working, part-year working, and compressed hours. We also operate flexi time.

Health at work
Your health at work is important to us. We offer a full occupational health service by Physicians or Specialist Nurses including health screening and surveillance, and also rehabilitation services such as counselling and physiotherapy.  In addition to this we have an Employee wellbeing programme which is designed to support all employees in making healthier lifestyle choices that will help improve their health and well-being.  Our commitment to the Time to Change campaign provides support from Mental Health First Aiders, Coaching, Mindfulness and even a Council Choir. 

Annual Leave entitlement
We offer a generous annual leave entitlement of between 25 to 30 days dependent on the job you do, grade and length of service. This is as well as eight statutory bank holidays

Leave
In addition to maternity, adoption and paternity leave, our family friendly policies offer eligible staff maternity support leave, parental leave, and special leave. We also support leave for reservists and cadets.

Career Break Scheme
You can request a break from work whilst maintaining your continuous service. Some typical reasons for requesting a career break may be to travel, pursue further education or to take care of dependents.

Staff groups
The Council has established groups where employees can meet to share information and raise awareness. These include the Black and Minority Ethnic staff network, the Disabled employees' network and the Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender staff network.