Benefits

Annual Leave

Each year you'll receive:

• 27 days annual leave increasing to 28 days after 5 years service
• 14 days public holidays

Pension and financial benefits

You'll receive the following pension and financial benefits:

• a Life Assurance scheme that makes provision for a tax-free lump sum equal to one times your annual salary and paid to a nominated beneficiary if you die in service
• a career-average pension scheme to which SQA contributes. For more information, see Strathclyde Pension Fund Office (SPFO)
• interest-free loans to help with seasonal rail and bus tickets

Leisure and pleasure

You can take advantage of:

• our staff restaurant provides subsidised hot food and snacks, including healthy options
• Fair Trade tea and coffee provided free in staff breakout areas
• access to sporting and leisure activities for a small fee. For more information see Civil Service Sports Council
• a cycle purchase scheme through an interest-free loan
• a pool of bikes that can be used to attend local meetings and at lunchtime and weekends
• SQA Lifestyles - save money in a range of online High Street stores

Staff wellbeing and health programme

The work-life balance and health and wellbeing of our employees is important to us and to that end we provide a range of staff assistance and well-being programmes:

• employee assistance programme 
• occupational health
• eye-care support
• health plans
• flexible working arrangements including special leave and additional leave to support employees and their families

Flexible working

Flexible working is a voluntary arrangement that is agreed between an individual and their manager, and is normally concerned with the pattern of hours worked, the times of these hours or the normal work location.

Examples of flexible working arrangements include annualised hours, compressed hours, formal change of start time and end time for working days, job-sharing, part-time working, term-time working, voluntary reduced working time and working from home