Careers Portal

Rewards and benefits

Supporting our staff with their health, wellbeing and inclusion

Employees have access to our Employee Assistance Programme, providing you with free and confidential counselling as well as legal and financial advice to help you in times of need.

You also have access to a wide range of information and specialist services. These services help to support health and wellbeing at work and home. They can help you with:

  • Healthy lifestyles
  • Mental health support
  • Stress awareness
  • Wellbeing activities including staff massages and wellbeing days

We also:

  • have mental health first aiders and in service Wellbeing Champions
  • have staff support groups, such as a Neurodiversity support group, Menopause support group, Carers Network and Staff Race Equality network
  • are Disability Confident and we have taken action to improve how we recruit, retain and develop disabled people
  • support the Hidden Disabilities Sunflower scheme which help us identify customers and staff with a hidden disability
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Supporting our staff to achieve a work-life balance

Annual leave

  • Generous holiday entitlement with up to 31 days per year (excluding bank holidays).
  • The option to purchase additional annual leave.

Flexible working and family friendly policies

  • A range of flexible/hybrid working options are available subject to the job role.
  • Time off for carers and foster carers to support your home life balance
  • Enhanced maternity and adoption pay
  • We also give you the right to apply for flexible working from day one of employment
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Supporting our staff to save for their future

Pension

You will be able to join the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) which offers:

  • A secure Government backed pension
  • Tax relief on your contributions
  • Flexibility to pay more or less
  • Immediate life cover and dependants benefits
  • Ability to flexibly retire

There is more information about the LGPS available here.

Additional Voluntary Contribution (AVC) scheme

You can save money on Tax and National Insurance contributions whilst saving for the future with an AVC. These help you to build up additional benefits for when you retire.

Pension and Retirement staff sessions

We offer a range of staff pension and retirement sessions to help you make the most of our fantastic pension provision and so you can plan for your future.

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Supporting our staff with their career development

As an organisation we are committed to supporting your personal and professional growth. All of our job roles provide a thorough induction process and job specific training.

We are dedicated to developing and supporting apprenticeships throughout our workforce and have a range of apprenticeship opportunities suitable for all ages and levels of experience. Apprenticeships allow our staff to develop the skills, knowledge and experience they need to become experts in their field and progress in their career. Whist our staff are training, we reimburse the cost of their professional fees if their role requires registration with a professional body.

We are committed to growing and supporting our current and aspiring managers and offer a Leadership and Management programme to ensure they feel supported and able to become our future leaders.

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Travel to work and parking

We offer various support to staff to help you manage the cost of travel and parking for work, including:

  • A Flexipass for use on the Park and Ride service making it easy to park out of the city, with buses running to the city centre every 12 minutes at peak times.
  • A Park it card for use at Civic Offices – these are reloadable cards that help to reduce the cost of parking
  • Disabled parking – the council has eight car parking spaces allocated for staff with mobility issues. They can also be used by visitors who are visiting the civic offices.
  • If you commute to work by bus, ferry or train, you can apply for an interest-free loan from the council to buy a annual season ticket
  • If you use your own mode of transport whilst on business – whether it be in a car, or on a motorcycle or a bike – you can claim mileage
  • We offer Salary Finance which gives  you access to a range of financial benefits, including affordable loans repaid through your salary.
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Supporting our staff to make the most of their money

My Rewards gives you access to a great range of discounts on:

  • Shopping and groceries including Asda, Tesco, Morrisons, Waitrose and Sainsburys
  • Travel bookings, including TUI holidays and Easyjet Holidays
  • High street vouchers, including Ikea, Argos, Curry’s and John Lewis
  • Gift cards
  • Days out, including Legoland, Go Ape, Virgin experience days and National Trust
  • Leisure activities, including Cinema discounts, reduced gym memberships and event tickets
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Working in Portsmouth

Portsmouth is a city on the South Coast of England, and is the UK’s only island city. We are 64 miles south of London and 19 miles south-east of Southampton. Our thriving commercial ferry port serves destinations on the continent for freight and passenger traffic, with easy access to France and Spain.

Working in Portsmouth