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
- Employee contribution 3.5%
- Shooting Star Children’s Hospices contribution 4.5%
- 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
- telephone and face to face counselling
- health & wellbeing advice
- online cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)
- advice and support
- 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