The benefits of working for us

As well as offering you the opportunity of being part of a service delivering high quality, integrated healthcare and comprehensive support to children and families across the region and nationally, Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust also has a number of favourable benefits to offer its employees.

All Employees of the NHS have benefits that include a generous annual leave entitlement of 27 days plus eight bank holidays, (pro rata) rising to 33 days plus eight bank holidays (pro rata) after 10 years of service. In addition to this, all employees have the option of joining the NHS Pension Scheme which is a final salary scheme and currently has a 14% employer contribution rate.

Employees at the Trust also have the opportunity to join valuable salary sacrifice schemes such as ‘Computershare Services’ which assist employees with child care costs or ‘Bikes for the NHS’ which is a tax free cycle to work scheme. Arrangements can also be set up for employees to join the Westfield Healthcare Scheme.

The Trust is highly committed to supporting employees with a work-life balance and has a variety of flexible working arrangements and opportunities in place which all employees have the right to request. Eligible employees may also be entitled to relocation benefits if they are required to move house to take up their post at the Trust.

In addition to all of the above, the Trust and the NHS also have local and national employee discounts on a variety of goods and services. A 10% discount from Starbucks on Western Bank or a 10% discount from Boots at Broomhill can both be enjoyed by employees of the Trust. The national NHS Discounts scheme also offers discounts from over 200 leading high street brands and includes house and motor insurance, gym memberships, financial products, help lines and holidays.

The health and wellbeing of our staff is important to the Trust and all employees have access to support mechanisms such as occupational health and confidential counselling services should this be required. The Trust is also currently working on a variety of initiatives in order to value and support our employees' health and wellbeing.