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Staff from Sanctuary's Head Office in Worcester celebrate Pride.

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Looking for a new job? We want to be a diverse and inclusive organisation where our people thrive. If you share our values and are talented and ambitious, we want to hear from you. We employ around 14,000 employees throughout the UK and maintain Investors in People status.

 

We offer a wide variety of types of work, including professional, managerial, technical, nursing, care, customer service, maintenance and administrative roles.

Fair Work First

Sanctuary Scotland is committed to advancing the Fair Work First criteria. We provide a competitive employment package that supports physical, mental and financial health, through a range of company paid and voluntary employee benefits, including wellbeing support and tools. Great work is acknowledged via our recognition schemes and our in-house Learning Academy provides opportunities for continuing growth and development; we meet the Investors in People Gold standard. Employees are encouraged to share their feedback via Staff Council and our annual employee survey, the output of which is reviewed by our Executive team and action plans put in place. Sanctuary Scotland’s goal is to be a diverse, inclusive organisation where our people thrive. We have an inclusion strategy and a number of very active staff networks; each with an executive sponsor. We also encourage colleagues to volunteer to foster a sense of purpose in the community and fundraise for a national charity each year, which is match funded by Sanctuary. Our values and behaviours encourage innovation and improvements to deliver good customer outcomes.

View our Careers website for current vacancies

New Apprenticeship roles

We have new opportunities for Apprentices to join our Sanctuary team. Find out more and view the roles available here.

View our latest Apprenticeship roles

Why work for us?

Benefits

As part of our commitment to making Sanctuary a great place to work, we offer a comprehensive reward and benefits package addressing health and welfare, income security and retirement needs, including:

  • an attractive pension scheme

  • health and wellbeing plans

  • discounted products and services

  • personal advice and counselling

  • family-friendly working with excellent maternity and paternity provision

  • flexible, hybrid working where possible within the role

  • tax efficient benefits

  • learning and development opportunities

  • generous annual leave

  • a free DBS if you need one for your job

Further details of our excellent benefits will be sent to successful candidates.

Learning and development opportunities

 

The Sanctuary Learning Academy provides effective and high-quality learning opportunities throughout the organisation, supporting our employees to achieve their ambitions and enabling the Group to meet its business objectives.

We offer a wide range of management and leadership workshops, courses and programmes, business-specific training and bespoke e-Learning, developed and delivered by our in-house training teams.

We're committed to nurturing the potential of our people. We also deliver an award-winning apprenticeship scheme, highly successful graduate programme, and have a dedicated team which assists staff in a range of qualifications.

Diverse and inclusive

 

At Sanctuary, we know that when we feel we belong and we can be ourselves, we are more likely to perform well and fulfil our potential.

That’s great for us as individuals and great for the organisation too – being able to call on diverse perspectives means better decision making, more innovation and more insight into our customers' lived experiences that help shape fairer, more empathetic and responsive services.

Committed to equality
 

  • Sanctuary is signed up to the Tech Talent Charter, a commitment to encourage gender diversity in the technology sector.

  • We are a member of Women into Construction, an independent, not-for-profit organisation that promotes gender equality in the construction industry.

  • We are a Disability Confident employer, and work to ensure that disabled people and those with long term health conditions have the opportunity to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations.

  • We are a member of the Business Disability Forum, the world’s leading business organisation for improving disability confidence.

  • We have signed the Time to Change Employer Pledge – a commitment to changing the way we think and act about mental health at every level of this organisation.

You can follow our X account@wearesanctuary, for more information about our recruitment offer and job opportunities within the Group.

For an insight into what it's like to work for us, take a look at #LifeatSanctuary on X.

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