Benefits

Recognising your achievements

We know recognition has the biggest impact and best motivates our people. At The IPO we believe everyone should have an equal chance of being given an award based on the expectations for their role.

Recognising Your Best Scheme

We believe all our people should be living our values every day. However, there are occasions when people go above and beyond what is expected of them, and this is how we thank them for doing this. There are two types of awards, monetary and vouchers which can be awarded through a nomination process.

Finding the balance

Creating a healthy balance between work and home life is essential at the IPO.

We do this by offering;

  • Hybrid working to create a truly inclusive working environment - we expect people to attend the office at least 20% of working time, with the ability to choose where the balance of your working time is spent
  • Family-friendly working arrangements including full-time, part-time and flexible working
  • Flexi-time working to give you the freedom to vary your hours around personal commitments
  • Family friendly policies that support modern working families and individuals with caring responsibilities (including maternity, adoption or shared parental leave of up to 26 weeks full pay, followed by 13 weeks statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid, and paternity leave of 3 weeks full pay)
  • All the equipment you’d need to effectively carry out your role from home
  • A generous holiday allowance of 25 days’ annual leave, rising to 30 days’ after five years’ service, and eight public holidays if you live in England and Wales (*if you’re an existing Civil Servant your A/L allowance total will transfer with you)
  • Maternity, paternity, adoption or shared parental leave
  • The opportunity to take up to 6 days of volunteering leave
  • Occupational sick pay for Civil Servants on Existing T&Cs who joined the Civil Service pre 01/04/2014, can get 6 months full pay and 6 months half pay when sick. Civil Servants on Modernised T&Cs who joined post 01/04/14 get 1 month full pay and 1 month half pay in the first year, increasing yearly to a maximum of 5 months each by the fifth year. .
  • Paid special leave for people who have an emergency or incident involving a dependent
  • Ability to buy extra annual leave days

Pensions

Your pension is a valuable part of your total reward package. As a civil servant you will be eligible for the civil service pension scheme where as an employer we will contribute between 26.6% - 27.9% (subject to grade of role)

Your contributions come out of your salary before any tax is taken. This means, if you pay tax, your take home pay will not be reduced by the full amount of your contribution; and your pension will continue to provide valuable benefits for you and your family if you are too ill to continue to work or die before you retire.

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