Rewards and Benefits

Alongside a competitive salary, you can expect a comprehensive benefits package. For roles which demand it, we also offer pay enhancements on top of your basic salary for out-of-hours, shift and overtime working.

Our generous holiday entitlement is 27 days per year, rising to 29 days after five years’ service and 33 days after 10 years’ service, plus eight general and public holidays. If you join us from within the NHS, your accrued leave entitlement can be transferred to your new role at the Trust.

We also offer comprehensive maternity, paternity and adoption leave schemes with benefits in excess of the statutory schemes.

We recognise that many employees have caring responsibilities outside of work and that from time to time, emergency leave may be required.

We offer a number of schemes to help staff combine work and home life. Colleagues at the Trust are currently taking advantage of a large range of flexible working opportunities, including part-time working, job sharing, compressed hours, unpaid employment breaks and flexi-time.

The NHS is one of the very few employers that still offer a retirement package based on either your final salary or a percentage of your pay over your whole career. This is fully protected against inflation and guaranteed by the government. Every new employee automatically qualifies. Find out more at www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/pensions

Because they value NHS employees, many companies offer special discounts on products and services. Offers include reductions on mobile phones and call packages with EE and Apple, 10% off Hoseasons holidays and £100 off Jet2holidays, along with money off Sky broadband, with offers changing regularly. Find out more at www.healthservicediscounts.com

As a large NHS organisation, as well as the benefits you receive as a member of the whole NHS family we are also able to offer additional benefits, some of which are detailed below. All these benefits show how much we value you and your hard work with us.

• Excellent NHS Pension package – Fully protected against inflation.
• Generous holidays – Starting at 27 days per year (plus bank holidays), increasing to 29 after five years of service, and rising again to 33 after 10 years of service.
• Salary Sacrifice Scheme – We run a scheme in which you can use part of your salary against a non-cash benefit which brings about savings for you – this can be used against set schemes we have in place for cars, bikes and accessories, car parking & day nursery.
• Staff Discounts – A number of companies offer discounts to our staff. Examples include hair and beauty, entertainment, eating out, electronics, health and wellbeing, home and motoring, breaks and holidays. All discounts are advertised on our MFT intranet site where there is a dedicated section on Staff Benefits.
• Benefit Events – We hold events for staff where companies offering discounts attend and exhibit.
• Interest-Free Travel Loans/Discounted Travel – We offer interest-free travel loans, enabling you to purchase an annual ticket for the Metrolink, Train, and Buses. You can also purchase a discounted weekly or monthly bus ticket.
• On-site nurseries at the Oxford Road & Wythenshawe sites –  you can pay for these through our salary sacrifice scheme.
  • First Steps Day Nursery – based on MFT’s Oxford Road site for children aged 6 months to 5 years.
  • Kids Planet Day Nursery – based on MFT’s Wythenshawe site for children aged 6 weeks to 5 years.
• Reward Team – This dedicated team can give advice and information on childcare both within the Trust and outside. They offer advice and help with going on and returning from maternity leave, working tax and child credits, how to find a childminder, navigating benefits and local and national government support.

• Staff Support – Our self-referral service is open to all staff and offers individual counselling and therapy for personal and work-related issues.
• Long Service Awards – All staff are eligible following 20, 30 and 40 years of service.
• Staff Networks – We’re committed to the aims within our Diversity Matters Strategy and work in partnership with our colleagues to ensure that the Trust has a representative and supportive workforce. There are several Staff Networks that have been developed by our staff, including our BAME (Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic) Staff Network, our Diverse Abilities Staff Network, and our LGBTQ+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender & Queer) Staff Network. We’ve also formed Religion/Faith Networks too, such as the Muslim Staff Network and the Hindu Staff Network. We’ll be developing a Jewish Staff Network and a Black Staff Network in the future, and we also positively encourage other groups of staff that wish to form a new network to reach out to our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Team.
• Health & Wellbeing – Our multidisciplinary team deliver a range of services including Fitness for Work advice and support; rapid access physiotherapy; Emotional Resilience and Wellbeing training; Immunisation and Vaccination Programmes.
• Full and part-time training and career development – You will have your own personal development plan and your progress will be reviewed annually so you can provide the best care to our patients.
• Appraisals and Talent Conversations: You’ll have an annual appraisal to identify your personal development plan to enhance your career pathway.
• Flexible working: We promote flexible working and will be happy to answer any questions at your interview about this.

Because of the size and scope of the Trust, there are extra advantages to joining us. You’ll be working in a state-of-the-art healthcare environment. This means it’s easy for our staff to move across different departments within the Trust.

What’s more, you’ll be working within a centre of excellence for many healthcare services and clinical research, enjoying all the cachet that this status brings plus all the opportunities for development and progression arising from the size of the Trust.