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Why work with us

Working for Lifetime Group is not just a job, it is an opportunity to be part of a supportive and progressive culture that is focused on supporting people fulfil their potential.

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Whether you are an industry professional looking for a career change and to share your experience or a specialist looking for a home for your talents change. Or you may want to work for a company that is all about people and inspiring them to be their best.

Whatever the reason, once you join us, we give you many more reasons to stay.

Our values underpins everything we do and so we each aim to bring it to life every day. Our culture supports and sustains us, enabling us to work effectively, both as individuals and as one team.

And, in return, everyone enjoys a package of rewards designed to help with the everyday things.

Wellbeing, rewards and recognition

We know that our people are our greatest asset and supporting the wellbeing of our people is essential to creating a healthy and open culture. We have several initiatives to ensure that support is accessible across a number of platforms to suit the needs of all individuals.

Employee Assistance Programme and helpline

Our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) is offered as part of our strategy to continue to make Lifetime a great place to work. The EAP provides you and your family with information, advice and counselling covering a variety of personal, family or workplace issues.

Wellness Hub

Through our Perkbox platform you get the chance to learn from wellbeing experts. The hub offers a range of meditation, yoga, Pilates, workouts among other things. Additionally you get access to discounts on a variety or wellbeing support.

Flexible working

All Lifetime employees, can request a change to their terms and conditions of employment to work flexibly to support their wellbeing and personal commitments.

Blended ways of working

Blended Ways of Working builds on the benefits flexible working offers, and combines remote, office and site working, as well as flexibility in when, and for how long, you engage in your work-related tasks. It is focused on promoting work flexibility to support work-life balance.

Wellbeing champions

Our Wellbeing Champions support the welfare and wellbeing of their peers in relation to work and personal concerns, providing guidance for both internal and external support avenues.

Thrive!

Our monthly newsletter contains welfare tips and advice as well as mental health and wellbeing articles and stories.

Occupational Health Referrals

We offer bespoke support and reasonable adjustments to individuals who have require additional considerations within a confidential assessment.

Menopause Mates

Our Menopause Mates provide guidance and information around the menopause, creating a safe space to share experiences and discuss personal journeys and insight.

Enhanced sick pay

We offer enhanced company sick pay benefits so you can take time off to get better without the worry.

We recruit the very best people and because they thrive on putting more in, we make sure they get more out. 

So, while they’re helping others to realise their potential, and while they’re realising their own, they get to enjoy the immediate rewards of a salary and benefits package that helps to get more out of their time, their health, their wellbeing and their future. 

Have a look at some of the ways we reward and recognise our life-changing people: 

  • Holidays

    You're entitled to 25 days' statutory holiday (pro-rata for part-time) and eight public holidays per calendar year. We also add one extra day of annual leave to your allocation at each five-year milestone.

  • Additional annual leave option

    You can buy up to five additional days of annual leave per holiday year to support your wellbeing and work/life balance.

  • Your birthday off

    To help you celebrate your special day we give you one day to take as you wish around the month of your birthday.

  • Early finish Fridays

    We all finish at 4pm on a Friday wherever possible, to make our weekends just that little bit longer.

  • Christmas closedown

    We close between Christmas and the New Year to give everyone the chance to have some well-deserved rest and relaxation over the festive period.

  • Pension scheme

    Our excellent auto-enrolment, salary sacrifice pension scheme allows you to contribute as much as you’d like from your salary, and we’ll match that up to 5% to help secure your financial future.

  • Group life assurance

    We hope nothing bad happens to you at Lifetime Group, but if it did, you’re covered by our insurance. In the event of your death in service, we’ll pay an equivalent of 3x your salary.

  • Health cash plan

    Claim cash back on your non-NHS funded health and wellbeing treatments. This will be fully funded by the Group with no cost to you.

  • Perkbox

    Our benefits, recognition and wellbeing platform offers over 4000 perks and discounts as well as curated wellbeing content for your mental and physical health.

  • Refer a friend

    Refer us as a great place to work to someone for a permanent (or FTC) role and receive £1000 reward upon completion of their probation.

  • Long service rewards

    We reward our long-serving people on the anniversary of their start date for 5, 10, 15, 20, and 25 year milestones.

  • 24/7 Virtual GP

    Unlimited access to six Smart Health services including a 24/7 virtual GP and Health Checklist. Expert second medical opinions for you and your immediate family.

  • Eye care vouchers

    From day one you’ll be entitled to contributions towards eye care including eye tests and £50 to spend towards prescription eyewear.

  • Cycle to work scheme

    You can apply to the Cycle to Work scheme to purchase a bike tax-free.

  • Flexible working

    To support your work/life balance we give you the opportunity of flexibility within our core working hours.

  • Enhanced maternity/shared parental and adoption leave

    For eligible team members we offer 12 weeks of leave at full pay followed by 12 weeks half pay before moving onto statutory entitlements.

  • Paid phased return support

    Following maternity, shared parental, adoption leave we offer a phased return on full pay/ reduced hours to ease your return to work whilst you and your new family adjust to your new world of balancing childcare, family life and work.

  • Enhanced paternity pay

    For eligible team members we offer two weeks full pay for team members on paternity leave.

  • Recognition programme and framework

    A reward programme where team members are recognised by their managers and celebrated for their achievements on a quarterly basis.

    A Sense of Belonging Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

    At Lifetime Training Group, we are committed to broadening the diversity of our workforce and creating a sense of belonging for all. In this way we will better represent our learners and partners to greater understand and fulfil their needs.

    By listening to our emerging diverse workforce, we will agree future goals and priorities as a community. This in turn will help secure a sustainable future for the Group, benefiting not just us but also our partners and learners.

    As part of our EDI strategy, we are continually reviewing how we attract and hire talent to our business.  Some of the initiatives we are rolling out are:

    EDI Commitment

    We express our dedication to fostering an inclusive workplace on all of our adverts to help encourage applications from all backgrounds.

    Applicant Feedback Survey

    We seek out feedback from applicants, in order that we can from their thoughts and experiences during our recruitment process. This helps inform our future actions for improvement.

    EDI Information Survey

    We ask applicants to confidentially and voluntarily share their personal demographic data with us. This is not shared with hiring managers but is instead used centrally to monitor trends and understand where our opportunities lie around broadening the diversity of our new hires at each stage of the hiring journey.

    EDI Job Boards

    We use specialized EDI job boards to increase awareness of Lifetime Group and attract applicants from more diverse demographics.

    Streamlined Selection Process

    We’ve removed certain assessment requirements from the selection process to make our hiring more accessible to a broader range of candidates. 

    Anonymising Application Data

    To help reduce unconscious bias during the screening stage, we have removed all personal details from applications. While we are not yet able to anonymize CVs ourselves, we encourage candidates to take the initiative to anonymize their CVs before submission.

    EDI Training for Hiring Managers

    Provide comprehensive EDI training to all hiring managers to ensure inclusive and unbiased recruitment decisions.

    Job Descriptions and Adverts

    Eliminate any unconscious bias from our job descriptions and adverts to encourage applications from a diverse range of applicants. 

    Diversity Panels

    Introduce diversity panels in our selection and interview process to ensure fair and balanced perspectives during candidate evaluation. 

    Diversity Platforms

    Expand our reach by partnering with additional diversity-focused job boards and platforms to increase awareness of our business to a broader, more diverse range of candidates. 

    Across the wider business

     

    Our recruitment activities form a small part of our overall strategy to create a sense of belonging through a diverse workforce. Here are some of the other activities we are working on throughout the Group.

    Disability Confident Accredited

    We are proud to have achieved our Disability Confident Commitment accreditation.
    Annual gender pay gap report
    Approx 60% of our workforce are female. We openly report on our Gender Pay Report annually and ensure the actions and findings feed into our EDI strategy.
    Menopause Mates Community
    Our life changing people have set up a ‘Menopause Mates’ community, full of useful resources and support that we can all tap into, whether we are embarking on the menopause ourselves or want to find out more to support our team, peers or family at a life changing moment.
    Supporting social mobility
    As an apprentice provider we are proud to support social mobility for our learners and we also recruit our own apprentices to help them achieve their career and qualification goals.
    Supporting Mental Health
    Our benefits and policies are focussed on supporting mental health and wellbeing for our employees and our learners, this includes; wellbeing initiatives and programmes, Wellbeing Champions, access to an Employee Assistance Programme, free counselling and flexible working polices.

    EDI Training

    We ensure our people are trained in Equality, Diversity and Inclusion to ensure everyone understands and recognises how important this topic is to drive change and make a difference to our current and future life changing people.

    Find out where you fit in