Benefits and Rewards

We offer a comprehensive benefits and rewards package for our staff, consisting of competitive pay, generous annual leave, employee assistance programme and more. 

Our rewards include: 

• competitive pay
• flexible working
• up to 34 days annual leave
• training and learning
• extended career break scheme
• interest-free travel season ticket loan
• employee assistance programme/staff support network
• career-average pension scheme
• maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
• relocation scheme
• discounts on local and national retailers
• various salary sacrifice schemes
• financial wellbeing programme
• shared cost additional voluntary contribution scheme.
• professional fees (as applicable)
• eyecare voucher scheme

Rewarding you at work Redcar and Cleveland offers market-competitive pay with incremental progression. Pay levels are set using recognised job evaluation schemes, providing fairness and transparency in pay decisions. 

We offer unsocial hours payments for staff working nights and on call. We have various ways of rewarding exceptional performance.

• Competitive Pay
• Generous Annual Leave
• Occupational Sickness Benefits
• Occupational Maternity and Adoption Benefits
• Car Mileage Allowances
• Additional Payments including: Additional Hours, Night Workers Allowance and Sleep-in Payment(where applicable)
• Honorarium (Acting Up)
• Professional Registration Fees
• Access to the Employee Facebook Portal
• Reward and Recognition Scheme including Long Service Award Scheme, Mayor Thank You Lunches and a monthly and annual recognition scheme.

The Viv-Up Benefits platform gives you access to many moneysaving offers and discounts at local and national retailers. Discounts and savings available include supermarkets, high street and online stores, electronics, travel, dining out, gifts, health, and beauty. You can also access local gym memberships at a discount, across the county.

Salary Sacrifice and Payroll Benefits 

Car Lease Salary Sacrifice Scheme

Drive a brand-new low emissions car in return for monthly salary deductions, insurance, servicing, and road tax is covered – just add fuel!

Cycle to Work Salary Sacrifice Scheme

Order a brand-new bicycle and equipment up to the value of £2500.00.

Spread Home and Electronic Payroll Pay Scheme

the cost of the latest technology and domestic appliances via monthly salary deduction.

Bike Shop Payroll Pay Scheme

Bikes for the whole family, kids’ bikes, components, and accessories

Gym Membership Payroll Pay Scheme

Get healthy and spread the cost at a choice of over 3,000 gyms.

Employees are contractually enrolled into the Local Government Pension Scheme, one of the few remaining defined-benefit pension schemes in the UK. There are many benefits to the Local Government Pension Scheme, which include:

• on average we pay over twice as much as staff towards each pension
• you get tax relief on all your contributions
• you can take a tax-free lump sum payment on retirement
• each year you will build up a pension based on your pay and inflation increases will be added to ensure that your pension keeps up
• protection should you have to retire early due to ill health
• life cover of three times your pensionable pay (on completion of the vesting period)
• dependents benefits payable if you die so your pension does not die with you
• there are no hidden management fees or hidden costs, you simply pay a percentage of your salary

There is also the opportunity to boost retirement savings through the Shared Cost Additional Voluntary Contributions scheme. 

It is a shared cost arrangement, meaning both you and Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council contribute into your AVC fund, through a salary sacrifice agreement. The amount you contribute is up to you.

We have a dedicated Health and Wellbeing Team available to provide you with advice and information. Your health is important to us, and we will support you to take positive steps towards your best possible wellbeing. 

We work with specialists (including counsellors, occupational health physicians and physiotherapists) and provide health assessments, interventions, and support to colleagues.

• Employee Assistance Programme
• Staff Support Network
• In-Work Wellbeing Events
• Hybrid/Flexible Working
• Flexible Working Hours
• Healthcare Cash Plan
• Access to Occupational and Physiotherapy services
• Eyecare Voucher Scheme

At Redcar and Cleveland, we believe that you are our most valuable resource and so we offer you the choice to benefit from a range of personal, professional and career development activities.

Our Comprehensive Training Programme gives all employees access to a range of training courses and qualifications which will help to support their professional and personal development.

Our Comprehensive Training Programme gives all employees access to a range of modules and qualifications which will help to support their professional and personal development as they need it.

There are several elements to the Comprehensive Training programme: 

• E-learning modules offer a flexible approach to support employee learning and development. 
• Our Induction programme is for every new employee joining the Council. 
• Leadership and Management Development courses and qualifications for current and aspiring managers. Supporting them with best practice in managing and developing their employees and teams. 
• Wellbeing courses to support individuals in identifying actions they can take to strengthen their resilience and wellbeing. 

Our Health and Safety Training Programme provides a range of role-specific modules to help ensure employees recognise hazards in the workplace; and take steps to reduce risks to an acceptable level.

Should you need to commute on public transport, we offer a Rail Travel Card Scheme which allows you to spread the cost over a 12-month period. 

For drivers, why not consider a low emission fuel efficient through our car lease salary sacrifice scheme. 

If you need to re-locate to Redcar and Cleveland, our comprehensive relocation scheme offers expenses up to £8,000, subject to eligibility.