Staff benefits

NHS discounts

• Blue Light Card
• Health Service Discounts
• NHS Discount Offers
• Staff Benefits
• EE mobile – 20% off pay monthly mobile
• NHS Staff Benefits

Gym memberships

• The Gym Group – 10% off
• Bannatyne Health Club – 7.5% off and no joining fee
• Pure Gym – 10% off and no joining fee
• Xercise4Less Stockton and Hartlepool – first month for £5

Home

• Homefair Blinds and Shutters
• Miller Homes
• High street and electronics discounts – login or register to Vivup to find out more

Entertainment

• Stockton ARC – discounted tickets on select shows
• Concerts for Carers – win free tickets to live events

Pension plan

North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust

When you start work in the NHS you will automatically become a member of the NHS Pension Scheme. Don’t worry, we’ll take care of all the details when you start your employment with us.

Pension contributions will come out of your salary (or income). You’ll be able to see this on your payslip. Employee contributions are based on their own pensionable pay.

You won’t pay income tax on the contributions you pay. And the Trust will contribute the equivalent of an extra 20.6% of your pay to help meet the costs of your benefits.

NTH Solutions

Employees of NTH Solutions, our subsidiary company, are automatically enrolled on their pension with National Employment Savings Trust (NEST).

Pensions contributions are 4% after tax relief and NTH Solutions pays a 3% contribution to this scheme.

Annual savings scheme

Our annual savings scheme opens for applications each November.

Once you join, you can decide how much you would like to save every month. This will be deducted at source from your salary from January 2023 until October 2023 – that’s ten months of hassle-free savings.

The money will be deposited back in your bank account with your November salary the following year. For example, if you decide to save £20 a month, you will receive £200 back in November.

You must complete a new form each year to take part in this scheme. Please keep an eye on your NHS emails each November for details on how to apply. Applications typically close in mid-December.

This scheme was launched after we asked staff for suggestions on what benefits they would like to see implemented.

Staff lottery

Join our staff lottery to be in with a chance of winning one of 11 cash prizes on offer every month. The more people who take part, the bigger the prizes.

It’s £1 per ticket (maximum five lottery tickets per person per month) which will be deducted from your salary each month should you decide to play.

By playing, you will also be supporting our Trust charity, North Tees and Hartlepool Together. Money raised for our charity through the staff lottery is used to fund staff health and wellbeing initiatives.

Transport

Lease car scheme

Our lease car scheme is run by Knowles Fleet. The scheme offers an easy, cost effective way to drive a new car that takes advantage of public sector discounts, with lowest prices guaranteed.

You can choose to pay by salary sacrifice or salary deduction.

The scheme enables you to drive a brand new car of your choice with all the main running costs such as servicing and maintenance, insurance, road tax, breakdown and recovery, included in a fixed monthly amount which is paid through salary sacrifice.

There is a large choice of vehicles included in this scene, including an extensive electric range.

Cycle to work scheme

You can save up to 42% on bikes and cycling accessories with Vivup’s cycle to work scheme. The salary sacrifice option is open to all staff on the PAYE payroll.

Simply browse products through the Vivup portal or visit a local, participating bike ship to get a quote for any bike brand, and order through the portal.

Login or register to Vivup to find out more.

Learning and development

We offer excellent learning and development opportunities and great terms and conditions for people who choose to work for us.

It is a very exciting time to join our trust as we continue to transform services to provide the highest standards of clinical care. If you are caring and passionate about providing the very best for our patients in our hospitals and in the community and you want to join a team of people who really want to make a difference then we want to hear from you.

Staff health and wellbeing support

We have health and wellbeing support services and resources available for all physical, psychological, financial and spiritual needs.