Culture and benefits
Culture
Standards for England is a stimulating and rewarding place to work with a unique role in local government. We employ people from a range of backgrounds and offer a variety of challenging and interesting roles. Our aim is to recruit and maintain an efficient, well-qualified and flexible workforce that will drive the organisation forward.
Our organisation values are:
Guardianship - We will selflessly guard, protect and deliver what is entrusted to us by law on behalf of the public.
Robustness - As an organisation we will be thorough in our planning, vigorous and determined in our approach, and ready to account for the decisions we take.
Positive leadership - We will provide confident, forward thinking guidance, advice and assistance.
Diligence - Our work deserves serious application of thought and action and a high degree of care.
Ethical behaviour - We deal with the principles of public life and the rights and wrongs of conduct. We are objective and we behave with integrity.
Standards for England employees enjoy a friendly and supportive working environment that emphasises learning and development.
We work in an open-plan office which promotes our culture of interaction and of treating staff members equally.
Benefits
Employees' benefits include:
- an annual leave allowance of 32.5 days
- eligibility to apply for flexible working arrangements
- final salary pension scheme
- interest-free season ticket loan (for travel)
- childcare vouchers
- confidential employee assistance programme
Staff Profiles
Click on John or Alexandra's photo below to read more.
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Alexandra
"I started at Standards for England in 2007 as Executive Assistant to the Head of Legal. I came from a commercial administrative background and this was my first position within local government...." |
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John
"I started at the Standards Board in 2004 having come from a local government background. I initially joined our Referrals team, deciding which allegations should be investigated, and my role has developed and changed since I have been here..." |
