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Rewards and Benefits
The University is committed to recruiting and retaining the highest quality staff. In addition to the opportunity to work in beautiful and historically significant surroundings we offer competitive rates of pay based on nationally agreed pay scales and a wide range of benefits including:
- Generous annual leave entitlement
- Excellent staff development opportunities
- Final Salary Pension Scheme - Local Government Pension Scheme or Teachers' Pension Scheme
- Onsite nursery with staff discount**
- Employee assistance programme - LifeWorks
- Occupational Adoptive Leave, Maternity and Paternity schemes
- Childcare voucher scheme
- Free eye tests and up to £50 contribution towards corrective lenses*
- Payroll giving
- Cultural activities throughout the year including exhibitions, music and drama events
- Car Sharing schemes
- Interest Free Sustainable Travel Loan
- Recognised trade unions - Unison and UCU
- Gym facilities - opened 2009**
- Family friendly policies and a number of flexible working options to help you achieve a healthy work-life balance
*Subject to meeting eligibility criteria ** Available at our Newton Park Campus
All this in addition to the great satisfaction that comes from knowing that everything you do helps us to ensure our students get the most from their time at Bath Spa University.
To get a better idea of the real value of the rewards and benefits package at BSU for you, why not try our Reward Calculator.
Work/Life Balance
It's not easy balancing the commitments of work and home. That's why we operate a number of working practices and policies designed to alleviate some of the problems that staff may encounter. Many work part-time, term time only or on a job share basis. The majority of our people also have the opportunity to work flexi-hours.
Although we can't guarantee to resolve all difficulties our staff may have, we consider ourselves a flexible and responsive employer, who wants to recruit and retain the best talent. We therefore operate a number of policies aimed at helping to achieve work/life balance, including the following:
Learning and Development
Learning and professional development plays an important role in ensuring that our staff are capable, competent and motivated to carry out their roles effectively. Some of the changes that have recently occurred include:
- A centralised training programme to meet corporate needs e.g. Management Development Programme, Customer Care Programme and Equality Training
- Investment in staff pursuing professional and post graduate qualifications linked to their work, with time off for studying