What We Offer
A career to be proud of
Why Join Us?
Competitive benefits package
There’s more to work than a uniform and putting in the hard graft. We empower our people by providing the autonomy and freedom to provide great care. All we ask is that our colleagues are reliable, trustworthy and focussed solely on improving outcomes for those we support.
That’s why we offer a suite of benefits, from competitive annual leave entitlement to occupational sick pay and flexible working. We’re breaking the mould of the traditional employer-employee relationship and are committed to looking after you, so you can look after others. We’ll stand by you, support you when you need it, provide the learning & development opportunities you crave and ensure you can flourish.
- A comprehensive paid induction programme
- Fair and competitive pay with paid travel time
- Pre-agreed working patterns (for work/life balance)
- Free uniforms
- A free DBS (and the DBS update service annual subscription)
- Employee assistance and wellbeing programme
- Cycle for Work scheme
And much more…
The Proof In The Pudding
New starters – 21 days
After five years – 23 days
After 10 years – 27 days
- Plus bank holidays
- Opportunity to buy and sell annual leave.
Access a whole suite of discounts and offers for many everyday household goods and activities. These include: Cars and motoring, fashion, health and wellbeing, vouchers, gifts, insurance and holidays.
Find out more about the Blue Light Card scheme.
We’re committed to offering flexible working wherever possible. We will consider all kinds of flexible working including; part-time, job sharing, compressed hours, term time only, career breaks or annualised hours.
For some roles we will consider home working and flexi-time.
We offer a comprehensive learning and development programme for all staff, across all areas of the service. We make a firm commitment to your continuing personal and professional development, encourage our team to acquire new knowledge and skills, and have a robust training strategy.
In addition to statutory and mandatory training, we can offer further development through Skills for Care, the NHS Leadership Academy, and through optional programmes of study via our e-Learning platform.
For unregistered workers, we support attainment of the Care Certificate and, thereafter, NVQ qualifications up to Level 5.
All of our training programmes are fully funded.
We operate a pension scheme through which we contribute up to 14% of your qualifying earnings. Anyone who starts working for us automatically becomes a member of the occupational pension scheme, but membership is voluntary and you can opt not to join, or to leave the scheme, at any time.
Find out more about The People’s Pension.
We offer a discretionary occupational sick pay scheme, subject to eligibility and length of service.
Feel Empowered
At HCL we celebrate diversity, welcoming everyone from all backgrounds. We embrace our differences so we can bring our true selves to work.
We believe having a diverse workforce is a key strength of our culture and understand the importance of making sure our workforce fully represents the communities in which we operate and the clients we serve.
Work is better when we create a positive working environment and we want people to feel comfortable and free to bring their whole self to work. Nobody should feel they can’t be authentic at work.