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Employee Benefits

Hertfordshire County Council has a variety of benefits in addition to the competitive remuneration package offered to employees.

Flexible Employment Practices

Balance is a package of Initiatives to help you achieve a better work life balance. It brings together existing policies and practices that aim to help people balance their work commitments with their personal lives. There are 3 strands to Balance:

• Care - The aim of Care is to provide a range of initiatives aimed at helping you to successfully combine caring and parenting with working.
• Health - Health aims to help you achieve a healthier lifestyles by offering a range of activities and initiatives to get you healthy and help you stay healthy.
• Life - Life includes a range of flexible working options and benefits to enable you to lead a flexible lifestyle.

Childcare Vouchers

The Childcare Voucher scheme enables you to exchange part of your salary for Childcare Vouchers. The vouchers are exempt from National Insurance and Tax and therefore represent a saving for employees who use them to purchase childcare. The vouchers can be used to pay virtually any childcare provider.

The Local Government Pension Scheme

The local government pension scheme (LGPS) is a contributory scheme to which employees contribute 6% of their salary. It is one of the most secure available and in the opinion of independent financial advisors, is hard to beat.

Generous Holiday Entitlements

A job with Hertfordshire County Council also entitles you to generous leave entitlement. The Local government leave allowance is usually between 22 and 32 working days per year, depending upon grade and length of experience.

Personal Development

HCC is totally committed to giving its employees every opportunity to pursue their own personal development, raise their standards of performance and enhance career prospects.

Lease Cars

HCC subsidises a lease car scheme for employees above a certain grade or to those who travel more than 2250 miles per annum on HCC Business. Peugeot also offer all HCC employees a personal contract hire scheme.

Leisure and Fitness

You can gain a variety of discounts on Gym and sport centre membership from over 10 different gym providers and 20 different gyms across the county.

Health Benefits

Employees can benefit from a number of private medical insurance schemes at discounted rates. Cover for Critical illness and Life assurance is also available.

Travel Insurance

HCC employees can receive Personal Worldwide Annual Travel Insurance at competitive rates from Philip Williams & Co. Cover starts from £45 per person and cover is available for individuals, couples and families.

CareWell

Hertfordshire County Council has chosen to provide all employees and their household family members with access to an all-new employee assistance programme called CareWell.

CareWell offers a much enhanced range of services including:

• General information and Citizens ’Advice services (anything from consumer issues to education residency advice)
• Counselling, via the telephone and up to 4 face-to-face sessions
• PPC AskWell (an interactive member only website providing information, advice and fact-sheets on health and wellbeing, see link below for access)
• Management Consultation (a dedicated service for managers to offer professional advice and coaching on staff management)

When using CareWell you can rest assured that you will be getting the very best help and support as over the 29 years that PPC have been in business they have built up an international reputation as the leading provider of professional advice and counselling to organisations and their employees.

You can access CareWell 24 hours a day, 365 days a year by calling 0800 731 0905 (or on minicom 0800 854 739).