Kent County Council - Rewards and Benefits

For our staff, we have created a generous reward and benefit package to help us recruit, retain and motivate our staff so they can realise their full potential and feel excited and proud to work for us.

The reward strategy:

provides a flexible and responsive job grading scheme recognises individuals' total contribution through pay gives managers the tools to recruit, retain and reward the contribution of individuals.

We have innovative policies in areas such as flexible working and buying and selling annual leave, and we continue to expand and adapt our benefits to meet the changing needs of our staff.

Our staff benefits package includes:

  • an excellent local government pension scheme
  • flexible working (includes flexi-time, part-time, job-share, term-time, home-based working and career breaks)
  • a generous holiday entitlement (between 24 and 30 days a year, depending on how long you have worked for us and the job you do)
  • maternity, paternity, adoption and parental leave
  • sickness provision
  • diversity staff groups
  • training and career development opportunities, within a guaranteed minimum of five day's training for every member of staff each year childcare voucher scheme which can be used to pay for registered childcare for children up to 16 years old
  • confidential health checks and a confidential counselling service opportunities to join healthcare packages from Hospital Savings Association (HSA) and Benenden Healthcare Society
  • a staff discount card giving you discounts in shops and health clubs, as well as on travel insurance, and 10% on Kent Adult Education courses
  • a relocation scheme to help new staff taking up key appointments to move nearer to their place of work (subject to certain conditions)
  • lease cars for staff who travel around the county as part of their work (subject to meeting qualifying criteria)
  • car sharing scheme and purchasing bikes to travel to work.

Click here to be taken to the Kent County Council Recruitment Site which will open in a new window for you. Or log on to www.jobsearch.kent.gov.uk.