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We are fully committed to offering you the best employee benefits that we can, and that starts with the offer of a truly rewarding role with excellent prospects. You'll receive all the support, advice and encouragement you need, and your Manager will make sure that your workload is manageable and your objectives achievable.
We aim to offer very competitive rates of pay compared to other London boroughs. To view our pay scales, just click on the pdf link.
Payscales
Similarly, we are generous with our leave entitlement, which currently stands at up to 31 days per year and can rise to 40 days with the inclusion of 8 public holidays and an extra day off at Christmas.  Also, if possible, we'll accommodate your desire to transfer some leave entitlement from one year to the next.
Regular quality meetings with your Manager ensure that your workload is manageable. At Enfield, we offer a supportive working environment to ensure you are not left without advice and help.
We are committed to offering you the best employment benefits that we can.
Click on the following links to find out more.
Pay and other related benefits
At Enfield we aim to offer a very competitive pay and benefits package.
Excellent pension scheme
We are able to offer you an excellent final salary pension scheme. Employees contribute between 5.5% and 7.5% depending on which of 7 salary bands their full time equivalent salary falls into. An excellent range of guaranteed benefits are payable, including:
- An index linked retirement pension for life
- An employer's contribution reviewed tri-annually to maintain the fund value
- Optional tax free lump sum on retirement
- Spouse’s, Partner's or Civil Partner's pension payable for life
- Children’s pensions payable up to age 18, later if in full time education or for temporary/permanent incapacity
- Early payment of benefits if a member is 55 or over and made redundant or takes early retirement with their employer’s consent
- Ill health provisions from any age if your illness means you can’t work anymore
Tax-free Death Grant for your nominated beneficiary of three times annual pay
To down load further details of our pension scheme please click here
Child Care Vouchers
Childcare vouchers are a means of paying for childcare - they are one of the ways in which employers can assist employees with childcare costs. A set amount (as specified each year by Government) per week supplied via childcare vouchers is exempt from tax and National Insurance Contributions (NIC) for employees, so we can help you to save money with your childcare fees.
100% interest free season ticket loan
If you don't wish to take advantage of any of the generous vehicle benefits, we can offer you an interest free season ticket loan, repayable in convenient monthly instalments.
Vehicle allowances
If we need you to use your car for council business, you will be able to claim mileage. The rate for this mileage will depend on how may miles you do in a year, either classing you as an essential or casual car user, but you must be insured for business use.
We acknowledge that not everyone uses a car and actively encourage the use of pedal cycles if it is possible for you to travel around the borough on business in this way. It not only reduces the number of cars in the borough, therefore improving our environment, but also makes for a healthier you! You can claim pedal cycle and motor cycle allowances.
Parking
For your convenience, we can offer you free or subsidised car parking, dependent on the site.
Annual Leave
We are pleased to be able to offer you up to 31 days leave per year. In addition to this, you may also be entitled to 8 public holidays per year and an extra day off at Christmas. That's a total of up to 40 days leave per year!
What's more, we understand that you want to take a prolonged holiday, overseas for example. So you may be able to transfer some of your leave entitlement from one year to the next.
Other Leave
We also support a wide range of other types of leave including maternity, paternity, maternity support parental, dependency and adoption leave
Career break
The Council also provides a Career Break Scheme. This scheme is currently used for a variety of reasons, including but not limited to, care of children or other dependents, education or training and travelling abroad. Working Life Balance- Flexible employment
The Council operates flexible working hours to give most employees up to Scale SM3 the opportunity to carry out their duties during as wide a range of working hours as possible subject to the needs of the business. You may vary your working hours to suit personal circumstances and accrue time off if you work additional hours.
We also offer a variety of Flexible Working Arrangements, which enables eligible employees to apply to change the way they work to any of the following:
- Part time working
- Job sharing
- Compressed working hours - this allows you to work your total weekly hours over fewer working days.
- Home-working
- Staggered hours – this allows you to start and finish your day at different times
- Term-time only – some of our posts can accommodate term-time only working patterns.
All of the above flexible working opportunities are major contributors enabling you to achieve a better balance between your work life and your home life.
Career Development - Your learning experiences
We want you to develop to your full potential, and we don’t just mean sending you on training courses. Yes we have a wide range of excellent training courses including “Leading Enfield” our new Leadership and Management programme and the European Computer Driving Licence, but we also actively promote the use of secondments, shadowing, mentoring, and action learning sets to name a few. These opportunities are designed to help you develop in your career and enable you to gain new and valuable learning experiences. Feeding these experiences back into the organisation will enrich the skills sets and knowledge of our staff.
Where studying for a specific qualification will enhance your ability to do the job, we may be able to fund this for you, allowing you the chance to further yourself without financial worry, and allowing us to gain the knowledge and skills from you.
Retaining talent
Consistent with our aim to be an employer of choice, we will motivate and retain skilled members of staff, by creating an environment where our employees have the opportunity to achieve their ambitions without leaving the Council.
Trainee Scheme
At Enfield, we appreciate the value of nurturing talent. That's why we offer the opportunity to study for the Social Work qualification (for a fixed number of places per year). Our very successful "Grow our own scheme" affords the chance to study at Middlesex University with all fees paid for whilst you continue in your job with Enfield Council. Please note you must already be an employee of Enfield Council for this scheme to apply.
Long service award
At Enfield, we recognise loyalty, dedication and hard work and regularly celebrate the contribution made by those who have completed 25 years of service.
Health & Leisure
The health and wellbeing of our staff is important to us. That’s why we have negotiated discounts with various organisations to enable you to make choices about your health and lifestyle.
Employee Assistance Programme – Advice and Counselling Service
The Employee Assistance Programme is a free and confidential service available to staff and members of their family household. They can help with all sorts of queries, for example:
- General information and Citizens' Advice services e.g. consumer issues, tax
- Financial advice e.g. queries regarding mortgage or debt management
- Legal advice e.g. advice on property/tenancy issues, wills
- Telephone & Face to Face Counselling
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