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.

Wellbeing

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.

Rewards and benefits

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.
  • Flexibility of Working Hours

    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.
  • Annual celebration event

    An annual celebration Group event where awards, nominated by our people for our people, will be up for grabs. The event will also be our chance for all team members from across the Group to connect, reflect, celebrate long-service and outstanding achievements together.
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