Staff Benefits

Making North Bristol NHS Trust a great place to work

Health & Wellbeing – Zest 4 Life

Zest for LifeNBT has information dedicated to Health & Wellbeing called Zest 4 Life.

This provides details on accessing the swimming pool, tennis courts and information on local gyms offering discounted membership rates for NBT staff.

You will also find a wealth of information on healthy eating, exercise and lots more! You can find the information on the HR intranet portal.

Restaurants

Kendon Cafe and Dining at Southmead can be found just off the main hospital corridor by the CSSD exit onto Kendon Way.

This facility, with food production on the ground floor and restaurant services on the first floor, will be based on Kendon Way until the new hospital is complete.

Kendon Cafe caters for staff and visitors daily offering a selection of hot snack items throughout along with the usual premium quality coffee, cake and light snacks. It also provides breakfast, lunch and supper at weekends.

Kendon Dining serves breakfast and lunches Monday to Friday with some dishes cooked fresh at the servery at lunchtime.

Redwood Restaurant at Frenchay Hospital opens daily for staff and visitors. The restaurant offer home produced dishes for eat-in or takeaway.
There are discounts available on selected food at both main site restaurants for all staff.

NHS Pension Scheme

NHS PensionsAll new employees automatically become a member (although you may choose to opt out) and you will get an excellent package of pension benefits. For more information please contact the Pension Department based at Frenchay Hospital.


Travel to Work

As part of our Treading Lightly environmental campaign, NBT provides incentives to encourage staff to walk to work, car share, cycle, use city car club or public transport. For a full list of information, please visit 'Treading Lightly' on the intranet.

Leaflets and maps are available which show cycle routes, intersite bus timetables and public transport timetables.

The Trust offers a range of incentives for staff that cycle or car share. Cycling incentives range from secure covered parking and access to showers and changing areas, to discounts on bicycles (through cycling scheme), a cycle mileage allowance for business use and free training courses.

A regular free bus service operates between the main hospital sites.

Childcare Facilities

Frenchay Squirrel Tree nursery and Southmead Saplings nursery cater for children aged six months to five years, and have summer holiday play scheme facilities for children aged four and a half to 14 years (subject to availability). For more information, please telephone  0117 3403862.

NBT Options

Choose one or more of the NBT options benefits including bikes for work, childcare vouchers, NBT nurseries and more. For detailed information please contact the Payroll Department based at Frenchay Hospital.

Personal and Professional Development

All employees have access to training and development opportunities from recruitment, supported by annual appraisal and development reviews thereafter. These give staff the opportunity to undertake personal development plans and identify learning, including opportunities to develop through apprenticeships and other vocational and accredited routes, innovative ways to learn at work, undertaking both traditional and eLearning pathways.

NHS Discounts

NHS DiscountsNHS Discounts provides discounts exclusively for NHS employees, their families and other Allied Health Professionals. Visit http://www.nhsdiscounts.com/.

Staff Lottery

NBT runs a staff lottery, which every staff member can join for as little as £1 a month. Members are also entitled to discounts for trips such as theatre tickets and family days out. For more information please contact the Staff Lottery Office at Southmead on 0117 3235006.

Fresh Arts

Fresh Arts is the arts programme for North Bristol NHS Trust. Set up in 2007 Fresh Arts is now a thriving programme which includes exhibitions, a staff arts club, projects which enhance the hospital environment and an expanding art collection.

Values and Principles on Equality

We respect and value the diversity of our workforce, patients, service users, relatives, carers and visitors and are committed to:

  • Serving our community in a way that is appropriate, accessible and responsive
  • Making best use of the range of talent and experience available within our workforce and potential workforce
  • Ensuring that our legal obligations are fulfilled

It is recognised that individual and institutional discrimination obstruct the fundamental aims and objectives of the Trust as a public service provider. We are therefore mainstreaming equality into all our functions and policies with the intention of achieving a fully inclusive organisation.

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