Rewards & Benefits

Herts Rewards

Herts Rewards is an online benefits portal where employees can access their entire employee offering. There are five elements to Herts Rewards which are outlined below:

Core Benefits

• Pay
  - Salaries         
  - Give as you Earn
• Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contributions with the option to make additional contributions.
• Leave
  - Generous holiday entitlement
  - Flexible Working arrangements
• Relocation Package (employees must meet the eligibility criteria)

Shopping Discounts

• Discounts and/or cashback (at over 800 retailers) on:
  - Everyday shopping
  - Many well-known restaurant chains, entertainment, venues, gyms and leisure centres
  - Holiday and leisure activities in the UK and abroad

Wellbeing

• Carewell – A free and confidential 24-hour Employee Assistance Programme, which provides advice and support, including a counselling service.
• On-site wellbeing activities and classes
• Access to discounts at local gyms, health and fitness centres.
• Information on mental health, physical health and work-life balance
• Independent financial advice

Salary Exchange

• Childcare Voucher Scheme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Health Screening Scheme
• Traded Annual Leave
• Lease Cars
• Car Loans
• Season Ticket Loans

Local Offers

• Lifestyle – including: - Employee Support Groups including the Herts disABILITY Network, Black and Ethnic minorities network Group (BME), HCC Carers Group, the Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Support Group, Mental health Support Group and Breast Cancer Support Group - 2 for 1 cinema tickets for carers       
• Travel – including: - Car Assistance and Hire - Discounted travel via Smartgo - Discounted Arrivabus travel
• Financial – including: - Credit Unions
• Wellbeing – including: - Discounted health insurance - Discounted health and optical care

For more detail about working as a HCC employee, please consult the employee handbook here.

 

 

Healthy Herts Wins a National Award

Herts HR were finalists for three awards at this year’s Personnel Today Awards– one of the biggest events in the HR calendar.

Hertfordshire's team was up against the best of private and public sectors for the following awards: Excellence in Public Service HR; Excellence in Learning & Development and Health at Work, before being announced as overall winners in the Health at Work category for Healthy Herts - our employee wellbeing programme.

We all live busy lives and finding a good work-life balance can be challenging.  Hertfordshire County Council is committed to helping employees to achieve this and offers a wide range of rewards and initiatives to support employees to sustain a healthy body, mind and work-life balance.

Healthy Herts was described by judges as: "An active and ongoing programme that is well considered and managed. The results are very good and show how gains can be made year on year."

Healthy Herts is delivered in partnership with colleagues in Occupational and Public Health and our Wellbeing Champions.

The team also won 'highly commended' in the Wellbeing at Work category at the Employers Network for Equality and Inclusion awards earlier in the year. They were also finalists in the Health and Wellbeing award at the HR Excellence awards.