Benefits at Keltbray

Every year, Keltbray donates 100 days towards volunteering activities for employees. This gives all employees the opportunity to donate time and skills during working hours to make a difference and tackle issues that are close to their hearts.

This scheme aims to reward employees for referring a successful candidate for permanent roles within the Keltbray Group.

Exclusively for Keltbray employees, we have partnered with BenefitHub, where you’ll have access to hundreds of amazing discounts – anything from travel deals to online vouchers, with average annual employee savings of up to £2,560. It’s all accessed through their website or the app, which can be downloaded on Apple and Android devices.

To enrol, please check out the steps on the intranet, or contact HR@Keltbray.com who will be happy to assist.

Keltbray have partnered with Cyclescheme to make cycling to work more accessible and affordable. The scheme gives you the option to swap part of your annual salary to obtain a bike, accessories, or a bike rental agreement (Santander, Forest and more).

You can request a cycle package up to the value of £2,500, making a tax saving of 25–39% and spreading the cost too. If you join the scheme you enter into a hire agreement for a new bike and/or accessories via a salary sacrifice agreement, and save on tax and NI. You can shop Cyclescheme online or in-store at over 2,600 retailers across the UK.

Keltbray’s salary sacrifice car scheme, delivered with Zenith, gives eligible employees access to a wide choice of brand-new or approved used cars. Monthly payments are made via salary sacrifice, with potential tax savings.

Full details and eligibility criteria are in the Salary Sacrifice Car Scheme Guide on the Business Management System.

In partnership with Enjoy Benefits, Keltbray’s workplace nursery scheme allows you to make tax and NI savings on your nursery fees, with savings opportunities of between 28% and 47%. Keltbray cover the £150 per month fee to opt in to the benefit, and payments are then made by the employee via salary sacrifice.

Contact your HR representative for more information.

We are proud to partner with The People’s Pension to offer all our people the opportunity to join a pension scheme. Keltbray will contribute 3% and you will contribute 5% of your salary (subject to a cap detailed in your pension documentation).

We offer all our employees death in service cover. This ensures that your family would receive financial assistance in the event of your death, which can be very reassuring. The type of cover varies across our operational and non-operational roles, so please see your offer letter for more details.

All our operational colleagues are also provided with accident cover. This support is designed to provide financial help in the event of an accident or injury. Whilst of course we take safety incredibly seriously, it is impossible to remove all risk from our operational roles and environments, so accident cover is there in the unfortunate event that it is ever needed. Please see your offer letter for more details.

We know that unfortunately sometimes we all need some time off for a bereavement or some compassionate leave. It is hard to define a policy for this because the needs can be very specific to you as an individual, so we allow our managers to make a call on what is and is not appropriate depending on the circumstances. As a general rule, the following will apply:

• Up to a week’s paid leave plus time off to attend the funeral, for immediate or very close family or friends
• Paid time off to attend a funeral for non-immediate family or friends

All eligible employees are entitled to take shared parental leave, paid at the statutory rate. Shared parental leave is all about sharing maternity, adoption or surrogacy leave — so if your partner doesn’t use all of their entitlement you can take the unused portion, up to a maximum of 50 weeks.

All eligible employees are entitled to 4 weeks paternity leave.

If you have more than 26 weeks service at the 15th week before the expected week of childbirth or the placement date:

• 2 weeks at full pay
• 2 weeks at statutory paternity pay

If you have less than 26 weeks service at that point you do not qualify for statutory paternity pay, and Keltbray will provide you with an SPP1 form.

All parents at Keltbray have the option to take up to eighteen weeks unpaid parental leave (a maximum of four weeks in any one year) to help manage the ups and downs of parenthood.

All our employees have the right to request flexible working, and we will always do what we can to accommodate those requests.

Subject to eligibility criteria, neonatal care leave is there to support Keltbray employees who are responsible for a baby receiving neonatal care for at least 7 days within the first 28 days of birth. One week of neonatal care leave is available for each consecutive 7 day period that the baby is receiving care, up to a maximum of 12 weeks.

If you are undergoing IVF treatment it is likely you may require time off at various stages during the process. Continuing as usual at work and at home while going through fertility treatment can be challenging, so we encourage you to keep your line manager or HR informed throughout your IVF journey.

We understand that pregnancy loss is a devastating experience, whether it happens to you, your partner or a surrogate having your baby. We want you to know that at Keltbray pregnancy loss is viewed as a type of bereavement, and that getting the right support at work is crucial.

We are committed to giving all affected colleagues the support they need, so employees are entitled to 5 days paid leave in case of loss before 29 weeks of pregnancy. This is designed to support employees through pregnancy loss, which includes but is not limited to miscarriage, stillbirth and abortion.

It’s important that you contact your manager as soon as possible if you are affected by pregnancy loss so that we know how we can support you during this time. On your return to the workplace please request any adjustments you may require and we will aim to accommodate them.

There may be occasions when you are confronted by unforeseen circumstances or emergencies relating to a dependant. If this happens, reasonable time off may be allowed to deal with the situation and to facilitate any longer term arrangements. Please liaise with your line manager in the first instance.

We recognise that some employees have specific caring responsibilities outside of work. Providing care for family members or dependants who are sick, disabled or elderly is a big responsibility and can often be difficult to combine with the demands of employment.

If you do provide care to a dependant we understand there may be occasions where you require time off to meet your caring commitments. In these situations you can request to take carer’s leave. Please let your line manager or HR know in order for them to provide you with support. Keltbray offers up to 5 days paid leave a year for individuals who are deemed as carers.

Every team member will have an annual Grow, Perform, Succeed (GPS) review or job chat to discuss how they are finding life at Keltbray, where they would like to develop and their future with the business.

Every person at Keltbray has access to our online learning management system, Flex. Sometimes you will be allocated mandatory training courses on Flex, but there is also a huge amount of content on there that you can complete voluntarily if you’re looking to expand your knowledge.

There are an array of excellent training modules available, from tips for having a difficult conversation to diversity in the workplace, diabetes awareness and our code of conduct training.

Keltbray offers a huge range of apprenticeship opportunities for people at all stages of their career. This includes the traditional early careers developmental apprenticeship right through to degree level programmes for senior leaders. Please speak to your manager or the learning and development team for more information.

Keltbray has a proud record of recruiting graduates and placement students and giving them a great foundation to build their careers from.

For Keltbray to stay at the top of our game we need our people to do the same, and professional qualifications and membership are one way of doing this. We actively encourage and fund numerous professional qualifications for our people. Employees are also able to expense the cost of one professional membership per year.

For anyone completing a formal qualification we offer paid study leave. This includes one paid revision day per exam, paid time off for the exam itself and one additional day per year for additional study time.

All our people receive at least 20 days holiday each year plus all the public holidays. We encourage you to use all of your holiday, as we know rest time is important for all of us to feel and perform at our best.

We take the health and fitness of our people seriously, which is why every member of the team receives a 10% discount at all Nuffield Health gyms, as well as a Virgin Active discount — 10% off 12-month contracts or 20% off flexible memberships.