Staff benefits
Working at Barts Health means you’ll have access to a range of benefits
Including leisure and entertainment discounts, and time off when you need it most
Your package will include:
- Competitive pay with London weighting
- At least 27 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays
- Automatic membership of the NHS Pension Scheme
- An award-winning staff recognition programme that celebrates your contribution every step of the way
At Barts Health, we believe in celebrating the incredible contributions of our staff.
Barts Health was named Best Employer for Staff Recognition and Engagement at the prestigious 2024 Nursing Times Workforce Awards.
Thanks to an £850,000 grant from Barts Charity, we’ve launched a range of initiatives that recognise and reward the dedication of our people.
Barts Hearts is a peer-to-peer platform that enables staff to send messages for the small, everyday acts of kindness.
Since its launch in February 2024, over 93,000 hearts have been sent through the platform.
Once a staff member collects five 'hearts', they can exchange them for a reward, adding an extra layer of appreciation.
A recent survey revealed that 55% of staff feel more recognised for their contributions, underlining the platform’s positive impact on engagement, satisfaction, and workplace culture.
We celebrate the exceptional individuals and teams who go the extra mile through our Barts Health Heroes Awards.
Anyone in the Barts Health family - staff, volunteers, or partner colleagues - can be nominated.
Discover our 2025 champions and relive the highlights from our last awards ceremony by watching our live blog.
We’re proud to celebrate the dedication and service of our long-serving colleagues, whose invaluable contributions have spanned many years.
These special awards recognise those who have reached 15, 25, or 40 years of continuous service at Barts Health.
Pictured left: Mercy and Erlein have devoted an incredible 100 years to Barts Health between them. Find out more here.
Our other recognition initiatives
Our volunteers
We support our volunteers across the Trust as well as hosting a heartfelt thank-you event for our incredible volunteers. This celebration acknowledges their vital role in supporting patients, families, and staff across the Trust.
More ways we celebrate
In addition, we:
- Provide thank-you cards for all staff to use across the Trust
- Hold monthly Hero of the Month awards at each site
- Celebrate excellence through the WeImprove and WeBelong Inclusion awards
- Support staff in attending national awards, showcasing their achievements
These initiatives demonstrate our dedication to creating a culture of recognition, appreciation, and belonging across Barts Health.
Saving you money
Entertainment and leisure
We work in partnership with London theatres and venues to secure heavily discounted – sometimes free – tickets for theatre, concerts and events.
Throughout the year we also run discounted mini-breaks and there are holiday and daytrip discounts available staff, their friends and families.
Concerts for carers
Concerts for Carers offer free tickets to events for all NHS staff. Pick your event, enter the ballot and you might get lucky!
Season ticket loan
Buying an annual season ticket works out much cheaper then monthly or weekly tickets. We will lend you the money for an annual ticket and deduct it from your salary each month.
Looking after your health
Money back for your routine health appointments
Simplyhealth work in partnership with us to offer a health cash plan at reduced rates. This helps you to budget for optical, dental, complementary therapy and even prescription charges for you and your family from only £3.10 a week.
Shopping
Salary sacrifice scheme
From tablets to washing machines, the salary sacrifice allows you to buy electrical items through your salary and pay them off over a set period of time. You can also lease a brand new car, fully maintained and insured, in the same way.
Health service benefits
Health Service Benefits offers free membership and provides exclusive discounts for all NHS staff from local and national high street companies such as Ticketmaster, Halfords, Halifax and Vision Express. Register for free.
Blue Light card
Blue Light Card provides those in the NHS, emergency services, social care sector and armed forces with discounts online and in-store.
Support services
Employee Assistance Programme
For confidential advice from someone outside our organisation, you can call our Employee Assistance Programme on 0800 085 1376 at any time.
Dignity at Work Advocates
Trained Dignity at Work Advocates are available to help provide advice, and to resolve any issues you experience at an early stage.
SpeakInConfidence
SpeakInConfidence is an online system that provides a way for you to anonymously and directly raise ideas and concerns with our senior leadership, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The web-based service is run by a third party and allows anyone to send an anonymous message to any of our executive leaders.
The Guardian Service
The Guardian Service is a safe and independent route for you to raise issues or concerns that affect you, the safety of our patients or your ability to do your job well. It offers an opportunity to talk through the issue before it is raised formally, get support and work to see if a resolution can be found.
It can be anonymous, and any concerns can remain confidential unless you agree for it to be raised with the relevant people within the organisation.
Wellbeing resources
The welfare and wellbeing of our staff is a key priority.
Thanks to the support of Barts Charity, we have invested millions of pounds in improved facilities including:
- Dedicated wellbeing hubs at each of our hospitals featuring comfy reclining chairs
- Improved rest rooms for our dedicated clinical staff to use whilst on shift
- New bike racks and lockers
- A psychological support service to aid people's mental health
Each of our sites also has a wellbeing lead and a network of wellbeing prescribers to help you navigate the support on offer.