Your health

The health and wellbeing of our employees is extremely important to us and therefore we provide a range of services to support them:

• Physiotherapy service - for employees with musculoskeletal conditions
• Counselling service - the Employee Counselling service provides confidential access to an independent counsellor via a free phone number
• Occupational health service - available to all staff by referral
• Medical screening - paid time off will be granted for the purposes of cancer screening
• Medical appointments - paid time off, up to two hours
• Eye care scheme - employees who need glasses for VDU use will receive a financial contribution towards the cost of the glasses
• Leisure membership - reduced membership to our Fit City Leisure Centres
• The Disability Leave Scheme (DLS) - up to six weeks paid additional leave

Sickness - your entitlement to sickness allowance is:

• During first year of service: one month's full pay and (after completing four months' service) two months' half pay
• During second year of service: two months' full pay and two months half pay
• During third year of service: four months full pay and four months half pay
• During fourth and fifth year of service: five months full pay and five months half pay
• After five years' service: six months full pay and six months half pay

This page was last updated on 25 October 2011