PAY & REWARD
A TRANSPARENT PAY STRUCTURE
With paid breaks, free food, uniform and training provided, what you see advertised as pay is what you get – its simple!
After passing probation, you will be earning £14.50 per hour, which is yearly pay of £24,882 with 12 weeks of paid time off a year, if working 5 days a week.
And did we mention we would pay travel expenses and accommodation for people travelling from further afield to attend a centre visit after passing your Zoom Selection? We’ll even pay for your DBS too. It doesn’t stop there either, as we offer house purchase assistance for staff at all sites and a relocation grant for the best staff that are moving to take up a position at Barhaugh Hall.
MAKING THE MOVE TO ROBINWOOD
Ideally, your commute to your centre would be less than 45mins, so many new starters choose to move closer to one of our centres in order to take up a job with Robinwood.
If you want to work at an adventure and teamwork, activity centre for children, we strongly believe that Robinwood offers the very best opportunity to do this. We offer year-round employment and a wonderful place to work, with great career development opportunities.
Moving to take up a new job may be a big step to take, but for Robinwood we believe it’s very much worth it, and we are ready to help you each step of the way in doing this.
We are happy to assist you in finding suitable accommodation, near your centre. We will connect you with other new starters and current staff, so you might even have readymade housemates.
Making new friends after the move should be easy, as you will quickly become part of the close-knit team at your centre.
RE-LOCATION GRANTS
We offer a re-location grant, of £2,000 to support high quality applicants that relocate to join our team, which means an additional £2,000 is included in the first months’ pay.
Being awarded a re-location grant is dependent on performance within the selection process, and the needs of each Robinwood Centre.
We currently have re-location grants available for new starters appointed to start at Barhaugh Hall, Alston, Cumbria.
HELP TO BUY
Well over 1,000 staff have moved to live near to one of our centres, in order to take up a job with Robinwood. Many of these have settled in the area, and continue to work for Robinwood today.
In order to help people settle in the area, we also operate a house purchase assistance scheme, available to new starters following successful completion of their 6-month probation period.
We offer £2,000 to assist with a house purchase, but ask that anyone who takes advantage of this house purchase assistance scheme, stays for at least 3 years with Robinwood. Some of £2,000 provided would need to be repaid if a claimant left within the 3 years for receiving the assistance, but from 3 years onwards no repayment is required – there’s really no catch!
We are very proud that over 100 Robinwood staff have received £2,000 assistance from Robinwood, to purchase their own house.
HOLIDAYS
Your hours will be annualised across the year. Our Centres operate with the school terms, and so staff get the majority of our closed weeks as paid holiday. This means that in addition to 6 weeks paid holiday, by working all of your contracted hours in our operational period, you can enjoy at least 12 weeks paid holiday every year!
HIGH-QUALITY UNIFORM
For you to be able to do your very best, you need to be warm and dry. Our uniform provision has been developed through feedback from the staff, so we know we are providing uniform that not only looks great, but does what you need it to do.
FREE OF CHARGE
From the start you are provided with high-quality waterproof and insulated jackets, fleeces, sweatshirts, t shirts, and waterproof trousers, with more points allocated to spend on uniform available to you each year.
MEETING YOUR NEEDS
The wellbeing of our team is important, and we want to make sure staff are rested and fuelled for busy days delivering brilliant courses for our visiting schools.
With a line manager that really gets to know you, you know your wellbeing is a priority.
FULLY PAID BREAKS
All your breaks are fully paid, on all shifts for all staff. We know our staff work really hard, and want to be able to ensure we provide a great work life balance, with the opportunity to rest knowing that all of the hours you are at work, you are paid to be there.
FREE MEALS
All meals are provided free of charge when on shift, which means hard-working staff can have breakfast, lunch and a hot evening meal provided by our brilliant catering teams, so your break is really just to relax. On busy days Group Leading, it’s vital that you can replenish your energy levels with tasty meals and snacks.
FUELLING YOUR DAY
Snacks and drink-making facilities are provided, so whether fuelled by caffeine, squash or ice-cold water, your needs are met. Dietary requirements are accommodated, with catering managers keen to make sure that staff food provision hits the spot for the team. We know that some people prefer to bring some of their own food, so staff kitchens to store and heat your food in the microwaves are provided.