Benefits of working for Salix Homes
Salford is a great place to be and, with the range of benefits available to you as an employee, Salix Homes is a great place to work. To provide you with a taster of some of the benefits we offer our employees we have divided them to into the following three categories:
- You
- Your Health
- Your Family
You
As an employee of Salix Homes you can expect:
- Generous annual leave allowance.
- Appraisal - you will be appraised at least once a year and you will be involved in drawing up a personal development plan for yourself.
- Equal Opportunities and Diversity – we have a number of policies to ensure equal opportunities in all aspects of employment.
- Induction – Passport to Success is our induction process. Your Salix career is a journey that begins when you are offered a position with us. It is an important part of the information you receive and is designed to help you integrate more quickly. It also helps you gain understanding about the culture and expectations, both yours and ours.
- Training and development – we provide a wide range of opportunities to help release your potential that forms part of your Passport. Job Shadowing, Secondments or occupational qualifications are just a few.
Your Health
As an employee your health and wellbeing is extremely important to us.
We provide a range of support services:
- Physiotherapy Service – As required.
- Counselling Service - This Service provides confidential access to an independent counsellor via a free phone number.
- Occupational Health Service – available to all staff by referral.
- Medical appointment - paid time off up to 2 hours.
- Eye care scheme – If you need glasses for VDU use, you may receive a financial contribution towards the cost of the glasses.
Your Family
We recognise that it can be difficult to find the job you want that matches your work-life needs. Therefore we make every possible effort to work with our employees so that they can meet their personal responsibilities whilst continuing to make a valued contribution. Policies we have introduced to help us achieve this are:
- Flexi-time – one of the most popular benefits! Our full time working week is 36 hours and if the post is eligible for flexible working you can work these hours anytime between 8am – 5pm Monday to Friday. In addition, if you work more hours than required you can take up to two flexi days in each 4 week period, subject to line manager approval.
- Job share – All of our posts, unless otherwise stated, are available as job share posts.
- Maternity Leave – Our employees can take up to 52 weeks off as maternity leave of which 26 weeks will be paid.
- Paternity Leave – Our employees can take 2 weeks paid paternity leave.
- Reduced Working Hours Policy – Should your personal circumstances alter you may wish to temporarily work shorter hours, this policy enables you to request this, subject to management authorisation.
