UHDBe Valued - our staff benefits offer

We are on a journey to make UHDB one of the best places to work, starting with our staff benefits offer programme, UHDBe Valued.


Our staff spoke. We listened. We acted.

We asked our staff in Spring 2023 how we can make UHDB a better workplace. We wanted to learn what we could introduce, change, and improve that would have the greatest impact on our staff at work, and received over 4,500 responses.

We analysed the results and implemented new offers, enhanced what we already had, and made changes based on feedback, while making the best use of trust resources, time, and finance.

Creating the best workplace for our staff and future workforce is important, and UHDB is committed to listening and updating our staff offer regularly.

We can offer you

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Discounts and rewards

A range of reward and incentive schemes to help our people all year round, including discounted public transport, high-street purchases, entertainment, restaurants, holidays and travel.

Family first

Family-first thinking

Includes flexible working, hybrid working, a range of special leave, carers passports, and purchase of additional leave.

Generous holidays

Generous holidays

Rest and personal time are important, so we offer 27 days annual leave, increasing by two days after five years of service, and a further four days after 10 years of service.

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Great pension

Saving for the future is vital and we offer a generous pension scheme alongside life and family benefits, and flexible ways to increase your pension entitlements.

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Salary sacrifice schemes

We offer the opportunity to spread payments for purchases such as bicycles, cars or childcare which are deducted at salary source.

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Restaurants and shops

Across our hospitals we have restaurants open seven days a week, where all our staff can receive a discount. Our hospitals have a range of cafes, including Starbucks and Costa Coffee.

Your workplace offer

  • Well-equipped staff rest areas including fridge freezers, toasters and other small items funded by Derby & Burton Hospital's Charity standard staff offer.
     
  • You have flexible working options, and we are helping improve work-life balance through advance rostering.
     
  • Free tea and coffee supplies available for colleagues throughout winter.
     
  • Refurbished café and restaurant at Royal Derby Hospital.
     
  • Free sanitary products for emergency use available at central points across all sites.
     
  • Wide range of meeting spaces and excellent facilities across all sites for meetings, training and for team sessions.
     
  • Breastfeeding - providing you with secure lockboxes for express milk storage and peer support.
     
  • Gender neutral changing facilities are now in place across UHDB.

Your health and wellbeing offer

  • Improved health and wellbeing classes offer - Book virtual and face-to-face classes for back and knee health, menopause yoga and more.
     
  • Improved access to peer support and trauma therapies for teams through revised frameworks: Sustaining Resilience at Work (STRAW) and Trauma Risk management (TRiM).
     
  • New and extended counselling available through the Employee Assistance Programme (EAP).
     
  • Expanded menopause support for LGBTQIA+ and ethnic minority colleagues through expanded offer.
     
  • UHDB Carer Passport to support colleagues with conversations with their line managers about managing their caring responsibilities and work with appropriate adjustments.
     
  • New outdoor spaces - Heros & Loved Ones (Halo) Gardens to be developed at Florence Nightingale Community Hospital and Queen's Hospital Burton where staff and relatives have a quiet space to sit and reflect.
     
  • Our new compassionate and inclusive leadership culture programme develops our leaders to create a supportive and inclusive workplace culture and improve peoples experience at work. 
     
  • Our DARSE framework published to support colleagues witnessing or experiencing unwanted behaviour including violence, aggression, threats, discrimination and making UHDB a safer place to work.

Just for you

Our Employee Benefits Hub offers discounts, salary sacrifice and schemes for:

  • childcare options, and support.
  • discounts on public transport.
  • free eye tests.
  • discounts on gym membership.
  • salary sacrifice scheme for car lease and electronic goods.
  • blue light cards - discounts on shops, restaurants, electronic and consumer goods.
  • and much more.