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Your career and benefits

Helping you achieve your potential whatever your role, we take your career and development seriously, and want to enable you to build a successful career with the FSA and wider Civil Service.

Our people say the FSA is a great place to work (People Survey). We know that a good work-life balance is important for us all. We want to ensure your wellbeing is provided for, alongside the opportunity for a long, happy and rewarding career.

Below is a summary of the benefits that would be available to you.

Attractive pension

You would automatically be enrolled into the Civil Service Pension Scheme, offering the choice of an attractive occupational pension or stakeholder pension. The Civil Service Pension offers benefits for dependants and employer contributions of 28.97%.

Competitive parental leave

Generous paid maternity and paternity leave, which is notably more than the statutory minimum offered by many other employers.

Help funding childcare

If you are a working parent, under the government’s Tax-Free Childcare (TFC) scheme, you can open an online childcare account and for every £8 you pay in, the government adds £2, up to a maximum of £2,000 a year for each child or £4,000 for a disabled child. You then use the funds to pay for registered childcare. Existing employees may be able to continue to claim childcare vouchers, so please check how the policy would work for you here: www.childcarechoices.gov.uk/

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All about Government help with childcare costs, including 15 to 30 hours free childcare, Tax-Free Childcare, tax credits, Universal Credit, vouchers and support while you study

Training and career development

We believe everyone is talented. Our aim is to embrace and celebrate the diversity and skills of all our people. We provide opportunities for people to perform at the best of their ability and for you to develop your career whatever your aspirations.

Our Civil Service-Learning portal offers a gateway to a vast range of learning and development tools, including professional upskilling leading to recognised qualifications in a wide range of professions including HR, Management, Communications, Project Management, and Operational Delivery.

Generous leave allowance

Full-time new starters get 25 days annual leave in their first year, increasing annually by 1 day to 30 days after 5 years’ service. Plus at least 9 days’ public and privilege holidays. The allowance is prorated for part-time staff. Visit Civil Service Pension Scheme for more details.

To Help you Develop

– Everyone is entitled to a minimum of 5 formal days of learning and development; provided through online, face-to-face or coaching

– We have development programmes for colleagues looking to progress to the next grade

– Approved volunteering, with up to 3 days paid special leave
 
Other benefits

– Access to flexible working schemes.
 
– Discount and incentive schemes include cycle to work scheme, discounted shopping vouchers and interest-free season tickets.

How we support you

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Helping you achieve your potential whatever your role, we take your career and development seriously and want to enable you to build a successful career with the FSA and wider Civil Service.

It is crucial that our people have the right skills to develop their careers and meet the challenges ahead and you’ll benefit from regular performance and development reviews to ensure your development is ongoing.

The Civil Service values and supports all its people, At the FSA we have strong and proactive staff networks, special leave policies, reasonable adjustments put in place for those who need them and inclusive talent programmes to help everyone irrespective of background, to achieve their potential.

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