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apetito Worklife
At apetito we invest in our employees - spotting their potential the moment they are recruited for tomorrow, and not just today, ensuring a strong team to drive the business forward and give strong succession planning and great opportunities for everyone in the business.
Every employee at apetito can take advantage of a wide range of benefits. We offer industry competitive salaries that are internally and externally benchmarked so you can be sure from the first step you’re making the right choice becoming part of team apetito. We also offer a defined pension scheme with matched funding from the company and a discretionary annual bonus scheme dependent on apetito reaching its targets as a company. We can also offer you an attractive holidays and company sick pay scheme.
If ever you feel the need we have an Occupational Health Advisor if you have any concerns or health problems, available twice a week with appointments made with your manager or direct through HR.
Employee Assistance Programme
We realise you may be experiencing pressures that affect your daily life, whilst even everyday problems can increase the pressure we are under. Perhaps your credit card has been used without your permission, you want to find local childcare or you’ve been asked to act as a witness – often all you need is information or clarification of your rights. Our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) can help, it’s a 24/7 service that provides free access to a range of specialist support and information, including telephone and face to face 
counselling.
The service is completely confidential - when you call you may be asked to give your name but it’s up to you and you can rest assured the scheme is operated by ICAS, the leading provider of these services. The LifeManagement™ service has been prepared to give you a quick, confidential and effective way of getting the information you need, from everything to financial services to family care and legal matters. Although the situations may be quite common, you may not have had to deal with them before and may need just a little help to resolve them.
You may feel you need to talk to someone about an issue of a personal nature such as problems with a relationship – your initial call to the ICAS National Support Centre is answered by a fully trained and qualified telephone counsellor, to help you define the situation and clarify your thinking on the matter. You can call the Support Centre as often as you need to, whether it is about the same problem or not.
If you would prefer to talk to someone face to face ICAS operates through a UK network of experienced and professionally qualified counsellors. Very quickly you will be put in touch with someone that is local to your home or place of work. The counselling is short term and solution focussed and usually two to three sessions are sufficient – if you need longer term support your counsellor will help you to find appropriate support in your area.
If you wanted to speak to a specialist about a work problem you can ring ICAS in the strictest confidence safe in the knowledge they are an independent organisation. ICAS holds a copy of apetito’s company policies and will often be able to clarify the situation for you.
The EAP service is available to you and your immediate family as long as they live in the same household and is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year on 0800 072 7 072.
Other benefits
We have an active Sports and Social Club to bring you and your colleagues together outside the workplace, while our Staff Foundation scheme offers grants of up to £500 for employee family initiatives, such as new football strips for local teams, spending around £25,000 per year and giving something back to communities throughout the country.
Leadership Communication Forums with guest speakers are held throughout the year, allowing us to communicate progress, strategy, new clients and up-to-date business developments directly with you, strengthening the bonds of team apetito – this year saw us doing the Haka! You will also achieve a quarterly staff magazine to ensure you’re not left out of the loop.
For those needing to work according to childcare timetables and the like we can award discretionary Flexible Working, while you will also enjoy the benefits of a heavily subsidised Staff Restaurant and a rather useful Christmas gift – a frozen turkey.
Ever fancied working abroad? As a global company vacancies may come up overseas – all international vacancies will be advertised internally.
Company culture with a difference
The flat structure in place at apetito enables everyone to get access to the CEO and Executive Board, enabling ease of decision making and progress. The approachability of both the CEO and Execs is mirrored through the HR and Learning and Development Teams.
The Human Resources department is a friendly and approachable team here to offer pragmatic advice to all areas of the business and to enable achievement of the business development plans which ultimately gives long term job security and career opportunities.
