Benefits for staff

• Improved choice and control at work, helping to improve health and wellbeing
• Improved work-life balance by being able to attend to care or health needs while continuing to work
• Flexibility for life’s emergencies
• Flexibility for life’s interests and commitments – engage in activities outside of work
• Improved job satisfaction
• Increased productivity through choice over when and/or where work

Benefits for the Trust

• Improve recruitment through attracting a wider and more diverse pool of talent to UHB
• Improved health and wellbeing of staff, through reduction of work/life conflict
• Support and retain a more diverse workforce, enabling carers, staff with a long term health condition, or childcare responsibilities to not only stay within the workforce but also progress
• Help to tackle the gender pay gap
• Improved service provision, through potential of extended cover for the service and ability to be agile to peaks and troughs in demand