What we offer you
Staff benefits
We wouldn’t be able to change lives without our employees. That’s why it’s important for us to create a working environment that looks after our staff’s wellbeing so they can achieve their full potential for the benefit of themselves as well as Guide Dogs.
We offer a wide range of benefits which can be tailored to suit your individual needs.
These include:
- A 35-hour working week
- 26 days’ holiday plus bank holidays
Rising to 28 days after three years' employment - Defined contribution group personal pension plan
Guide Dogs matches employee contributions plus 2% up to a maximum of a 9% employer contribution - Life assurance
A core benefit of 4 times salary - Flexible benefits
An amount equivalent to 3% of salary is given to employees to purchase benefits from a suite of well-being products, such as the ability to buy and sell holiday - Discounts and cash-back scheme
Access to discounts on goods and retail vouchers and cash back on purchases from supermarkets, clothing, electrical goods, travel, eating out, insurance and much more - Employee assistance programme
A free-phone confidential helpline to provide unlimited access to advice, information and face-to-face counselling support, where appropriate - Occupational sick pay
Enhanced above the statutory minimum - Occupational maternity, paternity and adoption pay
Enhanced above the statutory minimum - Child care vouchers
Enabling NI savings to be made on child care costs - Eye care vouchers
Free eye tests and if needed specifically for VDU work, a contribution towards glasses - Hearing tests
Free hearing tests for employees working in our kennels - Dogalogue 10% discount
A 10% discount on orders from the Guide Dogs official shop - Dog-friendly offices
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