Benefits
You can find a very rewarding career
with Shooting Star Children’s Hospices in a wide variety of roles. As well as
knowing you are part of a team that is providing vital support to families, we
offer multiple and generous benefits to employees.
What
benefits do we offer?
Pension
schemes
·
Recognition of the NHS Pension Scheme
·
Care staff can remain in the NHS
Pension Scheme subject to eligibility criteria
·
Stakeholder Pension Scheme
o
Employee contribution 3.5%
o
Shooting Star Children’s Hospices
contribution 4.5%
o
You can also contribute more into the
pension scheme and we will pay 1% above the contribution up to a limit of 7%
Annual
Leave
·
35 days including Bank Holidays
rising with length of service (pro rata for part time)
·
2 weeks paid sabbatical leave after
5, 10 and 15 years service
Training
& Professional Development
·
Mandatory online training provided
·
Excellent professional development
available
·
In house practice development team
·
Clinical supervision
Additional
benefits
·
Employee Assistance Programme
available to all staff including
o
telephone and face to face
counselling
o
health & wellbeing advice
o
online cognitive behavioural therapy
(CBT)
o
advice and support
·
Subsidised accommodation (Guildford)
·
Free staff car parking
·
Free meals available within the
hospice
·
Flexible working arrangements
·
Generous sick pay scheme rising with
length of service with 3 months full and 3 months half pay after one year’s
service
·
Death in service benefits provided
·
Staff changing rooms and showers
·
Enhanced maternity, adoption, and
paternity leave pay
·
Enhance Parental Bereavement Leave
pay
·
Optical care – eye test and £60 to
glasses for VDU use
·
Employee referral scheme
Moving to us from the NHS
The majority of our nurses come from an NHS background. To help with transition we have put together a list to outline our key terms and conditions of employment.
NHS v Shooting Star Children's Hospices
Comparison of Terms & Conditions of Employment
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Term
|
Shooting
Star Children’s Hospices
|
NHS
|
|
Standard
working hours
|
37.5 hours per week
|
37.5 hours per week
|
|
Notice
periods
|
HCA (band 3-4) -
four weeks’ notice
Nurse (Band 5-6) -
six weeks’ notice
Head of/Lead -
eight weeks’ notice
Director – twelve
weeks’ notice
|
Band 1 to 4 – four
weeks’ notice
Band 5 to 7 – eight
weeks’ notice
Band 8 to 9 –
twelve weeks’ notice
|
|
Geographical
Allowance
|
£2,415.06 -
£2,627.27 pa
|
·
Inner London 20% of basic salary,
range of
£4473-£6890
·
Outer London 15% of basic salary,
range of
£3784-£4882
·
Fringe 5% of basic salary,
range of
£1034-£1791
|
|
On Call
|
Week day £10
Weekend £20
|
Local agreement
|
|
Unsocial
payments
|
These are the same
as the NHS
|
|
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Overtime
|
A flat rate
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There is a single
harmonised rate of time-and–a-half for all overtime, with the exception of
work on general public holidays, which will be paid at double time.
|
|
Annual
Leave
|
On appointment 27
days + 8 days bank hols
After 2 years 29
days + 8 days bank hols
Offer 2 weeks paid
Sabbatical Leave every 5th year
|
On appointment 27
days + 8 days bank hols
After 5 years 29
days + 8 days bank hols
After 10 years 33
days + 8 days bank hols
|
|
Occupational
Sick Pay
|
Based on absence in
12 month rolling period.
·
Less than 3 months service – 1 week full pay
·
3 – 12 months service – 1 month full pay
·
12+ months service – 3 months full followed by 3 months half
|
Based on absence in
12 month rolling period**
·
1st year of service: 1 month’s full and 2 months’ half pay
·
2nd year of service – 2 months’ full and 2 months’ half pay
·
3rd year of service – 4 months’ full and 4 months’ half pay
·
4th & 5th years of service – 5 months’ full
and 5 months half pay
·
5+ years of service – 6 months full and 6 months half pay
|
|
Maternity/
Adoption
pay
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24 months service
at 15th week before birth & intends to return to work:
8 weeks full pay
less any SMP
18 weeks half pay,
less any SMP
13 weeks SMP
13 weeks unpaid
|
12 months service
at start of 11th week before birth & intends to return to
work:
8 weeks full pay
less any SMP
18 weeks half pay,
plus any SMP
13 weeks SMP
13 weeks unpaid
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