Supporting our people to develop, thrive and grow
Staff Benefits
At Real Life Options, we know that a great workplace environment goes a long way towards happy and motivated teams. In addition to first class learning and development, we offer ongoing support, some fantastic reward and recognition schemes and a wide range of employee benefits.
We use ongoing feedback from our teams to regularly review how people feel about their working environment and the benefits on offer in order to make the employee journey with Real Life Options a rewarding and fulfilling experience for all.
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Benefits & Rewards
At Real Life Options we treat our people with the same respect, care and consideration that we show to the people we support. Not only do we provide competitive rates of pay, a great place to work and great job satisfaction, our additional benefits include:
- Accredited training giving you the knowledge and skills to deliver a first rate job
- Access to training bursaries
- A minimum of 28-days paid holiday a year, including bank holidays (pro-rata for part time staff)
- An employer contributory pension scheme
- A free Employee Assistance Programme (including a medical helpline, telephone and face-to-face counselling, debt, financial and legal information)
- Life cover
- A financial wellbeing scheme
- A reward gateway with access to discounted goods and services
- Recognition Initiatives
- The chance to make a real difference in people’s lives
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Staff Support
Throughout your career, we understand how important it is for you to feel fully supported and valued. As part of our recruitment process, you’ll have a dedicated People Champion on hand to offer you advice and guidance throughout your probationary period.
Right from the start, you’ll be encouraged to learn and develop in a way that is right for you. We have a dedicated in-house Employee Support team to help you with any personal, financial or work-related queries. We’ll show you how to use our secure online information centre to access and update your personal information.
You’ll be invited you to join Real Talk, our app-based communications channel containing news updates, guidance for best practice and forums for collaborative working.
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Personal Development
Joining Real Life Options is the first step in an exciting journey of personal and professional development. We recognise that everyone is unique, so we offer different pathways to training and development dependent on your learning style including e-learning courses, workshops, peer support and on-the-job development.
Through Real Learning, you’ll have access to learning, knowledge and skills focused on supporting people with differing disabilities in a variety of environments. There will also be mandatory and contractual learning to help you become more competent in your role. We enable our staff to take ownership of their own learning, to be passionate about their job role and to support others to develop too.
For existing employees, here’s a quick link to Real Learning our Learning Management System. Remember you’ll need your username and password to access your learning space.
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