DfI - Pay and Benefits

As a Civil Service employee, you’ll be entitled to a large range of benefits:

• Impact - the opportunity to play a key role in delivering services with an impact and make a positive difference every day to society.
• Career Development and Progression Opportunities - match your career progression to your ambition. We will invest in your growth and development and provide support, training, learning and development to enable you to build a career with DfI and in the Civil Service. Your future is in your hands, we encourage you to seek out opportunities for growth.
• Flexible working – we provide flexible ways of working including a blend of home and office working (depending on the type of role role), whilst enabling the business to operate at maximum efficiency.
• Generous annual leave allowance – 25 days on entry, increasing to 30 days after 5 years’ service. This is in addition to 12 public and privilege holidays. For senior civil service – 30 days annual leave allowance on entry.
• An attractive pension package providing a range of valuable benefits, providing peace of mind. Find out more here.
• Generous paid maternity and paternity leave which is notably more than the statutory minimum offered by many other employers.
• Occupational sick pay.
• Employee Support – you will have access to an Employee Assistance Programme which include a 24/7 free confidential telephone service and access to an online Hub for a range of information.
• Professional Membership support in accordance with policy
• Support for Engineering Chartership pathways
• Connectivity – such as staff networks and clubs, engagement forums, sport and wellbeing activities, Trade Unions and communities of practice.