Our people approach
Here, you're part of something special.
We value every one of our team, with a warm and inclusive culture where you can be yourself and build meaningful relationships.
Your allies
We understand how vital supporting people's mental health is, and that employers have a responsibility to care for people's wellbeing.
Our 50+ trained Mental Health Allies are approachable, trusted colleagues who offer a listening ear and help others access the right support. This includes our confidential Employee Assistance Programme, which provides expert guidance on everything from mental health and parenting to legal advice and nutrition. We also help colleagues grow in their roles through tailored training and support for professional or academic qualifications.
Freedom to thrive
We work hard to ensure everyone at XPS feels they belong here and that their voices are heard.
To support this, we're a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and a signatory of the Valuable 500. These commitments are championed daily, with our leadership team vocal and visible allies to such important work.
By embracing diversity, we want to attract a wide range of talent and create an environment where people can thrive.
Our Commitments
Accountability starts at the top. Our Executive leadership team is dedicated to driving the change needed to harness the benefits of a truly inclusive and diverse business. They act as sponsors for our employee networks, and actively participate in our calendar of inclusion events. Their commitment is reflected in their objectives, which include measures around equality and diversity. Our progress in inclusion and diversity is regularly monitored by our Inclusion and Diversity Committee and our Sustainability Board Committee.
Health and wellbeing
We support everyone in our team to find the right work-life balance for them, ensuring they never compromise either their mental or physical wellbeing in the name of work.
XPS Proudly Signs the Race at Work Charter
In our commitment to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace, we have signed the Race at Work Charter to show our support to promoting racial equity and tackling ethnic disparities in the workplace.
This sees us take regular and proactive steps, such as taking action that supports ethnic minority career progression and capturing ethnicity data in order to track and publish our progress.
Never choosing between family and work
We understand that caring for family can be one of life's biggest challenges, especially when juggling this with work.
This is why we offer flexible, compassionate policies that revolve around your needs. This includes enhanced parental leave and fertility support to agile working, menopause support, and time off for dependent.
Our current policies include but are not limited to:
- Enhanced maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave
- Fostering leave
- Fertility treatment & IVF
- Agile working & flexible working
- Parental bereavement leave
- Menopause Policy
- Pregnancy and baby loss
- Time off for dependents
- Workplace Adjustment Policy
- Compassionate leave
- Holiday Trading opportunity
And we have an Employee Assistance Program which supports with all family friendly policies. Plus, employees can access flexible benefits though our benefits portal that can be tailored to their individual needs, for them and their families.
XPS Parental Coaching Programme
We provide support for parents at every step, ensuring they don't have to compromise with either their children or their careers.
Our Parental Coaching programme sees us partner with expert coaches to help our people navigate parenthood both in and out of work.
Whether it’s your first child or a new addition to your growing family, we offer a safe, supportive space to share experiences, explore challenges and build resilience.
Don't just take our word for it...
Settling into a new routine after my maternity leave has been hard. In particular, trying to navigate a new work / life balance to one I had before my maternity leave has been challenging. Being able to speak to colleagues in similar situations, as well as having one to one coaching, has been extremely helpful in supporting me to understand what my priorities are and providing me with confidence that I can achieve what I want. It has also been reassuring that I am not alone in how I feel!
Helen, Pensions
Recognising the extra effort
To celebrate those who go above and beyond at XPS, we created our Values in Practice awards.
These annual awards give the opportunity for people to nominate their colleagues who go the extra mile for their team, our clients and the wider community. We also have a Volunteer of the Year award to honour those who use their own time to create meaningful impacts beyond the workplace.
More than work
We encourage people to bring their passions to their work, and this can play a key role in a great work-life balance. This has seen us help found the XPS Book Club, the XPS Fitness Club and the XPS Photography Club to name just a few examples.
Are you ok?
We constantly listen to our people and we want to know what's working, and potentially what isn’t. We use employee engagement groups, feedback surveys and mechanisms on our intranet to get valuable insights we can act on.
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