Working for us

Our benefits

We recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce and encourage our colleagues to collaborate and share ideas, working together to achieve our organisational aims. Our people are at the heart of what we do, and we want our staff to feel supported and valued as part of our community.

Pay and reward

We offer a competitive salary, recognising your skills and experience and also give access to our staff bonus scheme, which recognises exceptional performance. Salaries are reviewed annually in line with the government pay award.

Pensions

We offer access to the Civil Service pension scheme where you will receive a 28.97% employer contribution, along with peace of mind life cover of 2x salary.

Holiday entitlement

Enjoy a generous 33 days annual leave, plus 8 bank holidays, as well as the option to purchase up to an additional 5 days of leave.

Work-life Balance

We recognise the importance of having a great work-life balance, so benefit from flexible working, however this may look for you.

This includes flexi-time, part-time, compressed hours or flexible start and finish times. We also operate a hybrid working model, where our staff have the opportunity to work some of their hours from home. On top of this, we offer enhanced maternity, adoption and parental leave, with supportive sickness absence pay.

Health and wellbeing

We understand the importance of your health and wellbeing. Benefit from access to our employee assistance programme, including free confidential counselling and wellbeing support, available 24 hours a day, 365 days per year.

We also offer free access to the Headspace wellbeing app, discounted gym membership, eye care vouchers and regular health screening via Nuffield Proactive Health to all staff. On top of this, we offer staff up to 2 days per year paid time off for volunteering.

Engagement

We make sure that our people are kept up to date on what is happening at RSH through our weekly newsletter, calendar of events and regular blogs.

Our monthly whole organisation briefings help us keep in touch with other teams and allow opportunity for learning and feedback. Our regular staff survey allows us to temperature check our employee engagement, listening to and acting upon feedback.

Recognition

Along with our annual performance related bonus and recognition of long service, we have a recognition scheme, where staff are encouraged to nominate colleagues for their contributions.

Travel

We offer season ticket loans for travel on trains and buses as well as access to our cycle to work scheme.

Inclusive environment

We think everyone should feel valued and comfortable to be their true self at work.

We have a number of staff networks you can join, including our BAME and Women's networks and opportunities for all voices to be heard. Our EDI sounding board group also work to make sure that we are always looking at what we can do better to promote an inclusive environment.

We are also proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, ensuring a fair and equitable approach to recruitment.

Career development

We want to support you in shaping your career with us and have a dedicated Learning and Development team, where you will benefit from a positive approach to both internal and external training.

Our Management Development Programme nurtures our managers, developing core leadership and management skills. All staff also benefit from paid annual membership for one professional body, along with support of continuous professional development.

Early careers

We see the importance in the growth of early careers talent and support a range of apprenticeships, including our bespoke Accountancy Graduate Scheme.

Locations

We have over 250 staff based across our main offices of Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, London and Manchester.

All of our offices are modern and collaborative work-spaces, based in the city centre, within easy reach of public transport. We operate a hybrid working model, where our staff have the opportunity to work some of their hours from home and staff must live within a commutable distance of their base office.

In line with Government requirements to reduce the number of roles in London, we'll only advertise roles to be based there where there is a business-critical reason. Some of our roles also involve travel between our offices and onsite visits to social housing providers.

careers@rsh.gov.uk