Benefits
As part of the Pay and Reward offer, we have developed an attractive benefits package to support you to lead a happy and healthy life.
Key features of our benefits package are based around managing your money, health and wellbeing, travel, and learning and career development.
Managing your money
Our benefits package includes:
- discounts for major stores, food outlets, and leisure offers through Our Benefits scheme
- a salary advance scheme (to be introduced in 2026)
- an opportunity to boost your pension with additional voluntary contributions
Health and wellbeing
Our benefits package includes:
- our Employee Assistance Programme*
- a 24 hour GP Helpline service NEW*
- a workplace nursery salary sacrifice scheme (to be introduced in 2026) NEW
- flu vaccines
- eye test vouchers for all
- healthcare cash plans NEW
Travel
Our benefits package includes:
- a car leasing salary sacrifice scheme*
- a cycle to work salary sacrifice scheme (up to £5,000) NEW
- discounts on bus travel
- secure bike cages, lockers, and shower facilities at our key council buildings
Learning and career development
Our benefits package includes:
- access to more that 1,000 online training courses on SkillGate*
- recognition scheme* NEW
(*not available to school colleagues)
More than just a job brochure
For a full list of the benefits package please read our ‘More than our just a job’ brochure.
If you have any issues accessing these PDFs or the video ask your line manager for the information in a more accessible format.
How to access our benefits
Many of our benefits available for you to access now. Go to Our Benefits portal to see the full range of benefits and discounts.
To access the portal, you will need to register an account. To register, you will need your Employee ID number (found on your payslip or by using F&O).
School colleagues will need to add a prefix before their Employee ID number. For example, if your employee ID is 123456 you will need to input D123456.
New colleagues should be able to register with Our Benefits between 4 and 6 weeks from your start date.
Once registered on the Our Benefit platform, you can download the Be Savings app to your Android or Apple device to access our benefits on the go.