Staff benefits

Core benefits

As one of our employees you will automatically receive these benefits:

• 25 days of paid holiday a year and approximately 15 days statutory holiday (pro-rata for part-time staff)
• generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• sickness benefits, increasing with your length of employment
• staff review and development scheme

Benefits +

Benefits + is a collection of optional extras that are open to all staff. The variety of benefits ranges from subsidised transport and meals out, to pensions and special offers on shopping.  

• Lifestyle + gives special deals on health and shopping
• Pensions + offers a more effective way of paying into your existing pension scheme
• Childcare + saves you tax on childcare costs and gives you use of the University's own childcare centre
• Travel + helps you get to work and back, and also gives some discount on personal travel

Pensions

Every employee of the University has access to a generous occupational pension.

We have four different pension schemes covering different groups of staff. Find out more about pensions, including retirement benefits and additional voluntary contributions.

All schemes provide valuable benefits on retirement, as well as life assurance and protection for your family.

Work-life balance

We aim to be a 'best practice' employer. We understand that our employment policies need to be flexible and responsive in order to promote diversity and equality, and to attract and retain the highest quality work force.

We not only fully embrace the Employment Act, which gives government regulations on paternity, adoption and statutory maternity leave, but we go beyond the statutory requitrements to help all staff balance the demands of work and personal life. Take a look at our HR policies to find out more about flexible working hours, job sharing and many other schemes to help you achieve a healthy balance.