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Council of the Year 2019

Filling in an application form

If you don’t register, you'll have 90 minutes to complete your application. After this time the system will log you off and you’ll lose everything.

You must apply online. We don’t accept CVs.

Staff benefits

Local government continuous service

If you get a job with us, you'll start to accrue continuous service which will count towards many entitlements. This will also continue to apply if you join another local government authority as defined within the Modification Order.

Read our policies and procedures

Annual leave

Entitlement varies according to job grade and length of service. This ranges from 26 days to 31 days for most roles along with statutory bank holiday entitlement (pro rata for part time employees).

	Local government service
Entitlement for each employee group	Up to 5 years	5 years and over
Employees on Sc1-4	187.5 hours (or 26 days)	223.5 hours (or 31 days)
Employees on Sc5-6	194.5 hours (or 27 days)	223.5 hours (or 31 days)
Employees on SO1 – PO12	202 hours (or 28 days)	223.5 hours (or 31 days)
Employees on Chief Officer grade	216 hours (or 30 days)	216 hours (or 30 days)

Occupational Sickness Pay

The following sick pay is available to WF staff.

Continuous Local Government Service by the employee	Months on Full pay	Months on Half pay
Up to 4 months	1	Nil
In the 5th to 12th month	1	2
In the 2nd year	2	2
In the 3rd year	4	4
In the 4th and 5th years	5	5
Thereafter	6	6

Family Friendly Policies and Procedure

We offer excellent family friendly policies which in some cases exceeds statutory requirements.

Maternity Support Leave

Eligible employees will now receive two weeks of maternity support leave at full pay.

Occupational shared parental pay

Eligible employees will receive five weeks occupational shared parental pay, with further time paid at the statutory rate.

Occupational Adoption Pay

Eligible employees will now receive 10 weeks occupational adoption pay,

Maternity Pay

Occupational Maternity Pay

This entitlement is based on 10 week’s pay at 100% of the employee’s average earnings.

Eligible criteria must be met. Employees must return to work for three months after maternity leave to receive this.

The Smallest Things campaign

Parents of babies born at or before 37 weeks are entitled to an extra week’s premature baby leave and premature baby pay (full pay). This applies for every week until their baby’s original due date.

Pension Scheme

The Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) is a valuable part of the pay and reward package for employees working in local government. We have an attractive pension scheme managed by Wandsworth Pension Service.

Pension Scheme and Death in service

3x annual salary

In the unfortunate event of death in service

Lift share scheme

A new online scheme launched to help council staff reduce the number of cars used to commute to work.

The following benefits are provided by an external provider

Tax free bike schemes

Our CyclePlus and Cycle2Work schemes can help you buy a bicycle, while spreading the cost and making significant tax and national insurance savings.

Cycling to work increases health and fitness and is a clean, green and cost-effective means of travel.

Benefits scheme: Sodexo Entitles employees to great discounts with major retailers, various attractions as well as cinemas, and restaurants

Based on Sodexo data the average saving are 8% per transaction

If an employee spends £500 on reloadable vouchers, they would save £40

Leisure centres

Employees can get up to 40% discounted membership at Better Leisure Centres within the borough. Employees are also eligible for a discount at the Gym Group – The Mall, Walthamstow: no joining fee and reduced monthly membership.

Employee credit union

Forest Savers’ credit union offers easy ways to save via payroll deduction and offers borrowing facilities at lower interest rates than commercial banks.

Eye tests and glasses

Employees who regularly use display screen equipment at work are entitled to reasonable paid time off for an eye test and up to £20 towards the costs every year.

We'll also pay up to £50 for lenses and frames prescribed for you for working on screen, provided this is the sole purpose recorded in an optometrist’s report

Season ticket/ travel card loans

Interest free loans are available for annual season tickets and/or travel cards for travel to and from work.

Applicants with disabilities

If you are an applicant with a disability, please tell us in your application.

We operate a Guaranteed Interview Scheme for disabled applicants
If a disabled applicant meets all the essential criteria of the person specification, the applicant will be shortlisted for an interview
Telling us in advance means that we can make any reasonable adjustments at interview

If you cannot apply online due to a disability, please contact our Human Resources Transaction Team hradmin@walthamforest.gov.uk or call the number on the job advert.

Help with completing online forms

If you don't have access to a computer, you can visit a Library Plus branch where you can use a self-service pc to log your request/report. Staff are available to support you if you need it.