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Sickness Benefits

As your employer, we want to support you when you are unwell. Our sick pay policy offers a maximum of 26 weeks full pay followed by 26 weeks half pay, depending on your length of service.

Wellbeing Benefits

The University of Derby takes a holistic approach to wellbeing, recognising there is an implicit link between inclusion and wellbeing and how people experience work. To support this holistic approach our wellbeing framework is made up of 8 pillars, emotional, physical, spiritual, environmental, social, digital, occupational and financial.

We also offer a 24/7 comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme which provides emotional support as well as practical guidance to support you and your immediate family.

Flexible Working

As part of our commitment, we acknowledge and strive to accommodate the diversity of our staff by being as flexible as possible in our work arrangements. This includes considering the broad-ranging personal or professional obligations of our employees, such as parental or caring responsibilities, commuting time, health/wellbeing needs, educational pursuits, charity work, leisure activities, and other personal interests.

Any employee, irrespective of their length of service, can make a request for flexible working.

Family-Friendly Benefits

The University is committed to providing competitive family-friendly packages in support of talent attraction, retention, staff wellbeing and career progression.

Subject to eligibility criteria:

• employees taking maternity, adoption and shared parental leave can enjoy up to 18 weeks leave at full pay.
• employees taking paternity leave can benefit from 3 weeks leave at full pay to be taken together or separately.

Our Carer's leave policy allows for 5 paid days of leave, to be taken together or separately.

We also have comprehensive guidance and support for bereavement, fertility treatment under our special leave policy.

Additional Benefits

We have a variety of discounts available to staff, from membership to our multi-million pound Sports Centre and access to Buxton Spa to our retail discount platform and Cycle to Work scheme.

We're serious about development and offer a wide range of career development opportunities, and well as tuition fee discount for your children and partners.

Visit our rewards and benefits page to find out more.