Benefits and celebration

NHS Pension Scheme

All NHS employees are auto-enrolled into the NHS pension scheme on joining Alder Hey. Your monthly pension contribution rate will be based on your pensionable pay (Cost of being in the Scheme | NHSBSA). In addition, your employer pays an additional 20.6% of your salary into each month. For example, if you earned £1000 p/month (gross), the Trust would pay an additional £206 into your pension.

NHS Pension Scheme video: Understanding your benefits in the 2015 Scheme | NHSBSA

Financial & Physical Wellbeing

Alder Hey offers a wide range of benefits such as:

A range of healthy food options in the hospital with staff discount (15% off when you show your ID badge) in the canteen including vegetarian, Halal and Kosher food options.

Simply Health & Medicash Health Cash Plans offer low-cost insurance packages that provide cash back towards healthcare bills and a wide range of other well-being benefits.

As part of our ongoing financial support and well-being we have partnered up with Wagestream, a leading financial wellbeing company, to give Alder Hey staff the ability to access and use their salary ahead of payday. Wagestream is a charity-backed organisation used by over 2 million people worldwide, including a number of NHS Trusts, to allow employees to track and instantly access their wages whenever they need to.

The Staff Lottery draw takes place once a month and currently there are ten prizes paid each month.

Salary sacrifice options including cars and home electronics.

Cycle to Work Scheme: You can participate in the Alder Hey Cycle to Work Scheme, choose your bike and accessories from participating retailers and pay monthly through your salary with a discount of up to 42%.

NHS Pension Scheme: See above.

Celebration and recognition

We are proud of our staff and recognise their achievements via:

The Alder Hey Star of the Month award is a new way for everyone to come together, to share the incredible achievements of our staff and to say thank you for everything you do

Staff with 25 years or more continuous service at Alder Hey/NHS are eligible for a long-service award. A minimum of 10 of those years must have been worked at Alder Hey to qualify

Staff who are due to retire are entitled to a retirement gift of a Frank Green watercolour print of Alder Hey.

WageStream will provide employees with the ability to track and access wages as soon as they’ve completed their shift.

Living Our Values Every Day (LOVED)

We know that being a good employer is not just about benefits and celebration. We have our values – Living Our Values Every Day (LOVED) – which characterise all we do and how we behave and interact with our colleagues, children, young people and their families. Our values are: