Employee Benefits
• Offering a competitive salary range in the third sector • Generous employer pension contribution of 12.5% which includes a death in service benefit (5% employee contribution); • Annual holiday entitlement starting at 25 days, excluding public holidays, increasing to 30 days in line with length of service; • In addition to the statutory UK public holidays granted, the Diocese offers three discretionary days to all employees namely Maundy Thursday, Ascension Day and Christmas Eve (or the closest working day where this falls on a weekend); • Flexible working patterns with the ability to do some work from home • Access to wellbeing support including referral to external partners, if needed • Enhanced family-friendly policies and a generous occupational sick pay provision; and • Access to low interest rate financial services from Churches Mutual Credit Union. • There is an Employee Assistance Programme with Health Assured
Employment Conditions
• Hours of Work - 37 hours per week with regular agreed hours and days. • Place of Work - Church House Oxford, Langford Locks, Kidlington, Oxford, OX5 1GF, with staff able to work from home if they wish for two days a week. • Annual leave – • During the first year of your employment with us you are entitled to 25 days’ annual leave per annum. • During the second year, up to and including the 5th year of employment, you will be entitled to 1 day’s extra annual leave per consecutive year. • In the sixth year and thereafter, you will be entitled to 30 days’ annual leave per annum. • Pension Provision • It is a statutory requirement for ODBF to automatically enrol employees into an appropriate Pension scheme of our choice. In our case this is the Church of England Pensions Board Pension Builder 2014 scheme. Information can be sought from the Church of England website: • https://www.churchofengland.org/sites/default/files/2017-11/2017-pb-2014-booklet-v-11.pdf • Genuine Occupational Requirement (GOR) • Travel within the Diocese of Oxford (Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire) is required • Travel to national and regional training and networking events and on occasion you may be required to work evenings and weekends with occasional overnight stays in relation to training.
Diversity and Inclusion
The Diocese is made up of people with a wide variety of theologies and understandings. This policy sets out our commitment to work within what is currently permitted by the Church of England to be an organisation that is as diverse, equal, and inclusive as we can make it. We are committed to being an equal opportunities employer and to creating a supportive and inclusive environment where each person in all their unique differences feels a sense of belonging and can flourish, irrespective of physical appearance, gender, race, religion, ethnicity, socio-economic background, academic ability, disability, sexual orientation or gender identity. The Diocese of Oxford believes that a church is the community of God’s people and recognises that all people are of equal importance in the eyes of God. We are committed to the principles and practices of equality – fairly and consistently treating each person according to their diverse needs and valuing our differences.
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