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