Our offer
Package
Knowsley Council offers a competitive salary and generous benefits package within flexible working arrangements. See all our employee benefits below.
Financial
- Competitive salary, which rises annually to the next increment of our pay scale for most roles
- Financial well-being offers and support, including affordable borrowing
- 24-hour financial advice from our Employee Assistance Programme
- Car mileage payments
- Free car parking
- Access to a salary sacrifice scheme to lease hybrid and electric vehicles
- A white goods salary sacrifice scheme
- A range of lifestyle savings and discounts available to all employees, including high street retailers, dining out, cinema, holidays, days out, health and fitness and beauty
Pensions
- Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme. You can find out more at Merseyside Pension Fund (mpfmembers.org.uk)
- Ways to top up your benefits, including shared cost salary sacrifice, meaning more savings on National Insurance and Income Tax
- Life cover – three times your salary as a lump sum if you die in service
- Option to voluntarily make additional pension contributions
Wellbeing
- Generous annual leave entitlement with an additional two concessionary days over the festive period. Starting annual leave allowance of up to 30 days plus public holidays, rising to a maximum of 35 days with long service. Entitlement varies depending on grade.
- Option to buy additional annual leave
- Flexible working
- Hybrid working in many roles
- Active travel support with a cycle-to-work scheme
- 24-hour health and wellbeing support with access to qualified counsellors and practitioners
- Occupational health services
- Workplace adjustments
- Access to a wide range of wellbeing support material including lifestyle assessments and recommendations, information about different health and wellbeing subjects and healthy eating recipes.
- Free flu jab
- Free eye tests
- Access to a range of health programmes, such as weight management and smoking cessation sessions
Discounts
- Access to a range of discounts, including restaurants, supermarkets and high-street shops
- Discounted gym memberships
- Access to reduced-cost travel passes
- Discounts available through mobile phone providers
- Discounted childcare vouchers
Family and Carers support
- Enhanced maternity pay
- Paternity leave
- Shared parental leave
- Unpaid emergency leave support
- Family-friendly policies supporting fostering, fertility treatment, fostering, adoption and caring responsibilities
- Carers passports
Development
- Engaging induction programme
- Apprenticeships to degree-level qualifications are available
- Access to learning and development opportunities
- A wide variety of roles and internal recruitment, helping you to try different careers and apply your skills in new areas