Rewards and Benefits

Our people work hard to deliver a service that gets our customers talking. So we feel it's only fair that they're well rewarded for their efforts. Our benefits package (detailed below) has been developed to help us attract, motivate and retain the best people - including life assurance, subsidised healthcare, Permanent Health Insurance, award winning pension schemes and flexible working practices.

Lifestyle Options

We recognise that, whatever job you do or whatever level you're at, you need to strike a balance between your work life and your home life. So we've created a range of initiatives to help you do just that. They've been developed to support you throughout your career and many go way beyond our legal obligation as an employer. More information about these initiatives, including flexible working, how we support working parents and how we'll support you in your career can be found below.

Flexible Working
Supporting working parents
Supporting You

Flexible Working

We offer a range of options for flexible working including part-time work, job sharing and flexible start and finish times.

Supporting working parents

CODA recognises the importance of the family and the need to support working parents in ways that help them balance their work and family lives. We want to ensure that both current and new mums and dads get all the help and support they need.

We give time off for antenatal, midwife, health visitor and parent craft classes as well as maternity pay and leave. Our occupational health teams are available to carry out health checks any time before and after the birth, including risk assessments where appropriate. CODA offers a number of policies to support the need for individuals to balance home life demands with work as these fluctuate:

Examples include:

Enhanced maternity pay for employees with over 2 years service
Enhanced paternity pay for employees with over 2 years service
Childcare voucher scheme
Flexible working policy
Home working policy

Supporting You

Competitive rates of pay and performance related rewards

We regularly check our salaries to make sure we're competitive. And in order to keep up with any changes in the market, we'll review your basic pay every year. We also offer extra performance rewards to recognise individual achievement.

Life Assurance

Upon becoming a permanent employee, you are immediately entitled to Life Assurance of 4 times your pensionable salary.Permanent Health Insurance (Income Protection)After being with the company for a year, you are entitled to Permanent Health Insurance through Canada Life.

CIGNA

CODA employees are comprehensively covered under CIGNA’s Private Healthcare Scheme.

Pension Scheme

CODA has an award winning Personal Pension Plan Contributory scheme in place. This requires employees sacrificing at least 3.25%, in return for 7% from the company.

PCP (Private Car Plan) Allowance

For selected management roles and employees that have to travel for their job we offer a competitive PCP car allowance

Leeds Hospital Fund

We have corporate rates agreed with LHF which acts as a health plan as opposed to CIGNA which is a health insurance.

Eye care Vouchers

We are part of Spec savers’ premium club which allows us to offer £20 discount vouchers off any pair of glasses from their £99 and over range.

Ensuring you make the most of your time out of work is also important to us. So, we've arranged a variety of special offers and exclusive discounts,

Wine Club

CODA runs a wine club which allows employees to take advantage of discounted wine but also to socialise together. Gym MembershipWe have corporate discounts on 2 local gym memberships.

Childcare Voucher Scheme

CODA have teamed up with Leapfrog to provide a Childcare Voucher scheme which works in a similar way to the pension salary sacrifice and therefore offers working parents the chance of tax-free childcare.

Free Parking

CODA’s Harrogate office has extensive free parking – allowing employees to travel from all parts of the region.

Support charity activities and events

CODA encourages staff to become involved with and to support charity and voluntary groups. We offer corporate financial support to staff raising funds for a small number of specified charities with the aim of helping create a bigger impact within those charities. However, we also provide notice boards to promote charities and will be happy for you to raise funds for any non-politcally based charity.

Career Development

Most of us want more than a job; we want a career. CODA has a dedicated development team that offers all employees training in job related skills, workshops on career management and development, resources for self-driven learning and personal guidance/support. All employees have the option to own their own personal development plan – designed jointly with their manager. In addition our development programme includes:

Management development
Work based skills learning
Educational sponsorship for academic courses
Mentoring
Coaching
Secondments

Paid Membership of Professional Bodies

Any employee that is a member of an appropriate professional body may apply to have their annual membership paid for.