Key staff benefits

All NHS staff have a generous annual leave entitlement - you can enjoy a healthy work-life balance with ample leave.

• 27 days (+ bank holidays) on appointment
• 29 days (+ bank holidays) after 5 years of continuous service
• 33 days (+ bank holidays) after 10 years of continuous service

We offer flexibility to help you balance work with your personal life.

We can offer compressed hours, time off in lieu, flexible retirement, employment breaks, home working, job sharing, part time working or staggered hours.

Our Flexible Working policy provides information on how to apply to work flexibly and the considerations for you and your manager to think about prior to application/agreement to a flexible working request.  

The scheme remains one of the best available and is one of the most cost-effective ways to protect your financial future, no matter how far off you are from retirement. Your pension benefits are based on your salary and length of membership of the scheme. As a member of the NHS scheme, you get:

• a pension for life and a tax-free lump sum when you retire
• life assurance cover of twice your annual salary
• ill-health retirement benefits
• redundancy benefits 
• family benefits (including civil partners)

Staff members can use Employee Online (EOL) to view all aspects of their roster in the past, present and as far into the future as the rosters have been published. This includes annual leave, enhanced hours, training days, skills and certificates and their pay records before they receive their paper pay slips from payroll. EOL also allows users to request duties and time off for future off duties, submit their timesheets online and view available bank shifts.