- Achievable work/life balance through a range of flexible and agile working options, dependent on the role
- Hybrid working with excellent technology, which enables work from any location
- Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption and shared parental leave pay to get the most out of any related leave
- Support for employees who also have a significant role as a carer.
Our purpose and culture make working at the Progress Housing Group a truly rewarding experience.
Our benefits package does, too. Depending on your role and where you work, you can expect to be offered the following benefits. With our comprehensive and competitive total rewards package, you get a great deal from the day you join us.
Work-life balance
Depending on your role, we offer achievable work/life balance through various flexible, hybrid and agile working options.
From becoming a new parent or caring for a loved one in their time of need, we have created paid leave options to support you during those really important times.
Leave
We offer a paid holiday entitlement that grows as your career does with 26 days annual leave, increasing to 31 after five years and 33 days after ten years
We also offer a paid day off for your birthday, and the option to buy or sell for up to five days' leave to suit your needs and circumstances.
Pay
We offer competitive salaries and annual benchmarking. Our defined contribution pension scheme matches contributions to up to 7.5% via salary exchange (making pension contributions more efficient by reducing the amount of National Insurance paid)
We also offer Financial Recognition Awards for exceptional performance.
Workspaces
Our contemporary and accessible workspaces offer breakout and social areas, good public transport links and secure storage for cyclists, quiet rooms for meditation or prayer, on-site shower facilities, and lockers. Great tech enables anytime, anywhere working.
We also offer a green car scheme and cycle-to-work scheme.
Learning and development
We are invested in your continuous personal and professional development to help you get where you want to be whether this is on-the-job and formal training, shadowing, coaching and mentoring, apprenticeships or support to achieve professional qualifications.
Support and wellbeing
We have health and well-being initiatives to support our people. As well as occupational sick pay and Policies to support work-life balance, our Employee Assistance Programme offers counselling, and legal and financial information services.
Our well-being champions and inclusion networks help coordinate a wide range of activities, events and promotions.
Give something back
Every year, our colleagues can take paid time to volunteer, and there are plenty of opportunities to get involved with fundraisers, awareness campaigns, and social value projects and initiatives.
Perks
Our Medicash membership scheme helps with everyday healthcare costs and with Medicash Extras, you can also access offers, discounts and reloadable payment cards from entertainment, sports, retail and dining partners.
Full summary of benefits
We care for our colleagues and appreciate how they contribute to our goals. It’s one of the reasons we offer a broad range of benefits, from flexible working options, generous leave holiday entitlement, wellbeing support and health cash plans.
- 26 days annual leave, increasing to 31 after five years and 33 days after ten years
- Bank holidays
- Paid day off for your birthday - our gift to you!
- Option to flex your annual leave and buy or sell up to five days to suit your needs and circumstances.
- Competitive salaries and annual benchmarking
- Defined contribution pension scheme with matched contributions of up to 7.5% via salary exchange (making pension contributions more efficient by reducing the amount of National Insurance paid)
- Home Working Allowance
- Financial Recognition Awards for exceptional performance.
- Contemporary and welcoming workspaces with breakout and social areas
- Good public transport links and secure storage for cyclists
- Quiet rooms for meditation or prayer
- On-site shower facilities and lockers
- Accessible spaces
- Green car scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Mileage is paid at 45p per mile, with an Essential Car User Allowance for those regularly travelling over 10,000 miles per annum.
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) is a health and wellbeing benefit available to all employees, offering access to a variety of online resources, including the wellbeing Wisdom app, as well as confidential services, including telephone and online counselling and legal and financial information services
- Health Cash Plan via Medicash, including cash back to support healthcare costs, Virtual GP Service, discounted gym memberships and the My Medicash wellbeing app
- Inclusion networks (Roots, Pride in Progress, Meno Movers, and Carers Together) are open to all and provide support to those who identify with them
- Wellbeing champions who help coordinate a wide range of wellbeing activities and promotions amongst colleagues (they are also trained in mental health first aid)
- Regular wellbeing pop events and workshops
- Social events to connect
- Occupational sick pay to cover periods of absence due to ill health
- People Forum for colleague members from around the Group to exchange information and views with the senior management team on issues of mutual interest.
- Continuous personal and professional development and support to develop achievable career plans
- On-the-job training
- Personal review and development planning
- Coaching and Mentoring - including external opportunities each year with the Housing Diversity Network
- Apprenticeships - from levels 2-7 relevant to your role and specialist area to develop you further
- Digital learning - formal learning resources available via our MYLO platform
- Shadowing - the opportunity to spend time with colleagues in other teams to understand how we all work together towards our Corporate Strategy.
- Matched funding for fundraisers and charities
- Volunteering Policy to help support any external volunteering role, including one day’s paid leave per annum for a volunteering activity
- We also have an employer-led volunteering programme with community activities for you and your team to get involved in
- Opportunities to get involved with fundraisers, awareness campaigns and social value projects and initiatives.
For Medicash members, Medicash Extras: a range of offers, discounts and reloadable payment cards from entertainment, sports, retail and dining partners