{"id":412,"date":"2025-08-18T17:39:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T16:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/ukho\/?page_id=412"},"modified":"2025-09-05T13:16:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T12:16:05","slug":"benifits","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/ukho\/benifits\/","title":{"rendered":"Benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"hero\">\n\t<div class=\"hero__container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"hero__row\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"hero__image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/ukho\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/167\/2023\/01\/Banner-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Banner 1\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"title\">\n\t<div class=\"title__container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"title__row\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"title__content\">\n\t\t<h1>\n\t\t  Benefits\t  <\/h1>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"content\">\n\t<div class=\"content__container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"content__row\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"content__column\">\n\t\t  \t\t\t\t<h3><strong>Pension <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Alongside your salary, we will contribute up to 28.97% towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.<\/p>\n<p>The Civil Service Pension scheme offers benefits including potential access to ill-health and injury benefits if you become too ill to work and life assurance cover. For more information on the scheme, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;text-decoration: underline\" href=\"https:\/\/url6.mailanyone.net\/scanner?m=1urAQY-0000000EmIA-3KXu&amp;d=4%7Cmail%2F90%2F1756278600%2F1urAQY-0000000EmIA-3KXu%7Cin6k%7C57e1b682%7C10418494%7C10968157%7C68AEB14EEAFBBFA9399A0F7EA03FDF51&amp;o=%2Fphtw%3A%2Fwtssiw.rilecvsevioenicp.hnsrmeoceikg.ijonu%2Fptngne-e-hhnsimsceo-iee%2Fseftbn---oehepftconse-shin%2Fem&amp;s=SE0vABonXU-Y7kXyEc5sAL0JNoQ\">Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Benefits <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>UKHO is part of the Ministry of Defence and therefore, as a Civil Servant, you are entitled to a wide range of benefits. For more information please refer to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;text-decoration: underline\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;text-decoration: underline\" href=\"https:\/\/url6.mailanyone.net\/scanner?m=1urAQY-0000000EmIA-3KXu&amp;d=4%7Cmail%2F90%2F1756278600%2F1urAQY-0000000EmIA-3KXu%7Cin6k%7C57e1b682%7C10418494%7C10968157%7C68AEB14EEAFBBFA9399A0F7EA03FDF51&amp;o=%2Fphtw%3A%2Fwts-iw.eilscvacrve-crie..erkovusgsv%2Fcrl-eiipevioemlc-e-yeienfeb%2Fst&amp;s=tNJugHCWzOmOUd5GwYfFYN1eA4o\">Civil Service Employee Benefits | Civil Service Careers<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"content\">\n\t<div class=\"content__container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"content__row\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"content__column\">\n\t\t  \t\t\t\t<h3><strong>Office Location<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_483\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-483\" class=\"wp-image-483 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/ukho\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/167\/2025\/09\/UKHO2686-2-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/ukho\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/167\/2025\/09\/UKHO2686-2-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/ukho\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/167\/2025\/09\/UKHO2686-2-1024x642.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/ukho\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/167\/2025\/09\/UKHO2686-2-768x482.jpg 768w, https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/ukho\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/167\/2025\/09\/UKHO2686-2-1536x963.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/ukho\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/167\/2025\/09\/UKHO2686-2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-483\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This role is based in our purpose-built and modern offices, a short distance from the M5 in Taunton, Somerset. We have an onsite nursery, gym, electric car parking facilities and free car parking.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Inclusive Culture <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>At UKHO, we have a clear vision for our future and a strong sense of purpose which is underpinned by our values, set out in \u2018The UKHO way\u2019, for more information, please see the (about us) page. Being an inclusive organisation is important to us, with our Diversity and Inclusion Forum and Affinity groups playing a key role in ensuring everyone has a voice.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Wellbeing <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>At UKHO we are able to offer a wide variety of benefits to support your wellbeing including Chaplaincy (for any faith or none), Charitable Giving, Civil Service Organisations membership, Cycle Scheme, Employee Assistance Programme, Peer support group, Eye tests, Use of our Headspace app to name a few.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Flexible Working <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Flexible working patterns and access to Flexible working schemes allowing you to vary your hours as long as you work your total hours.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Career and Personal Development <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>We want to empower you to meet your career goals, and the civil service offers a wide range of learning opportunities to suit you and your needs.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;text-decoration: underline\" href=\"https:\/\/url6.mailanyone.net\/scanner?m=1urAQY-0000000EmIA-3KXu&amp;d=4%7Cmail%2F90%2F1756278600%2F1urAQY-0000000EmIA-3KXu%7Cin6k%7C57e1b682%7C10418494%7C10968157%7C68AEB14EEAFBBFA9399A0F7EA03FDF51&amp;o=%2Fphtw%3A%2Fwts-iw.eilscvacrve-crie..erkovusgsv%2Fcrl-eiipevioemlc-e-yeienfeb%2Fst&amp;s=tNJugHCWzOmOUd5GwYfFYN1eA4o\">Civil Service Employee Benefits | Civil Service Careers<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Family Related Leave<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Generous paid maternity and paternity leave which is notably more than the statutory minimum offered by many other employers.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Annual Leave and Bank Holiday Allowance <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>We offer 25 days annual leave, rising one day per year up to 30 days upon completion of five years\u2019 service. This is in addition to your 8 public holidays.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Special Leave <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>We offer special leave for military or emergency service volunteering reserve commitments.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-412","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/ukho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/ukho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/ukho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/ukho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/ukho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/ukho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":488,"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/ukho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/412\/revisions\/488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/ukho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}