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Benefits & Enhancements

Annual Leave

Up to 2 years service	23 days
After 2 years service	25 days
After 5 years service	28 days

Plus Bank Holidays

Avenues Personal Pension Scheme

If you agree to contribute a minimum of 3% of your basic annual salary, Avenues will contribute the same.

Enhancements

Waking Nights	Time and a 1/3
Bank Holiday Premium	Time and a 1/2
Saturday Premium	Time and a 1/3
Sunday Premium	Time and a 1/2
Sleep Ins	£30 per shift
Service User Holidays	£25 per day
Additional Hours	£7 per hour *
Additional Hours worked in Surrey	£7.25 per hour *
Additional Hours worked in the Young People's Service	£8.84 per hour *

* Plus enhancements for weekends, bank holidays and waking nights.

Discounts

Simplyhealth Corporate Scheme. (Subscription via a corporate scheme is less than via a personal scheme).

Employee Assistance Programme

If you need help, information or just someone to talk to about a problem, however personal, you can contact the free confidential helpline at any time of the day or night, 365 days of the year.

Focus Groups

Opportunities to help shape the organisation by joining one of its focus groups and project teams.

Training

During the first six months staff follow a comprehensive induction programme attending necessary courses. Staff can also apply to study for NVQs in Care or Promoting Independence where study and assessments take place in the workplace. Many of the courses within the Avenues training schedule complement this study programme.

Leadership & Management

It is extremely important to Avenues that we not only train our front-line support staff but that we also train and develop our managers. We take management and leadership training very seriously and offer a wide range of development programmes to skill our managers with the knowledge and behaviors expected of them. Some examples of our management programmes include;

An Introduction to Management and Leadership
Coaching for Performance
The Managers Role in Dispute Resolution
Managing Attendance
Effective Supervision

We also work in partnership with Croft Management to deliver the Chartered Management Institute's Diploma and Certificate in Management programmes as well as giving managers the opportunity to gain external occupational qualifications such as the Certificate in Person Centred Support and the Diploma in Positive Behavior Support in partnership with the Tizard Centre at the University of Kent.