People are at the heart of everything we do including how we recruit our staff.
It is important for us to find people who share our values:
- Integrity and Honesty: We are fair, honest and responsible. We work to always achieve inclusion and equalities in all that we do.
- Collaborative: We are committed to collaborative working in an ethical way. We nurture and develop our staff, volunteers, partners to achieve excellence in all we do.
- Kindness and Respect: We treat people with kindness and respect, recognising everyone across our communities in Orkney.
We are committed to the Fair Work principles of effective voice, opportunity, security, fulfilment and respect. That means, we:
- Have an appropriate channel for effective employee voice.
- Invest in workforce development.
- Do not use zero hours contracts inappropriately.
- Take action to tackle the gender pay gap and create a more diverse and inclusive workplace.
- Commit to paying the Real Living Wage.
- Offer flexible and family friendly working practices for all workers from day one of employment.
- Oppose fire and rehire practices
For more information about Fair Work First, visit the Scottish Government website.
As members of the Disability Confident Scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies. You can find about the scheme on the UK Government website.
Our benefits include:
- 8% employer pension contribution
- time off in lieu allowed for hours worked in excess of 20 per week
- 25 days annual leave (Pro Rata)
- 10 public holidays (Pro Rata)
- 4 gifted days to close office during Christmas and New Year
- friendly team
- flexible working
