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What it’s like to work or volunteer for The Leprosy Mission

Thank you for considering getting involved with our amazing organisation and wanting to help us to defeat leprosy, forever. Being part of The Leprosy Mission is exciting and fulfilling. We are a professional and supportive team and have a culture of growing and learning together. Everyone at The Leprosy Mission is a changemaker, you’ll be changing the lives of people who have been rejected by society and there’s nothing more rewarding that that. If you would like to join our team serving those affected by leprosy together, we’d love to hear from you.

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Benefits of working for The Leprosy Mission

Not only does having a career at The Leprosy Mission offer fulfilling job satisfaction and impact but we take seriously our investment in our best resource – our people.


The Leprosy Mission is a friendly, positive and collaborative place that feels more like a family than a workplace.


We provide extensive training in fundraising and international development. In addition, whether it’s part of delivering your role or not, everyone has the opportunity to visit our work overseas during the course of their career.


We have awarding winning levels of staff engagement and we’re Charity Times and Third Sector award winners.

We review our salaries annually for cost of living and we regular survey the market to ensure that we’re paying as competitively as possible.


As employee of The Leprosy Mission, you will be able to access the following benefits:

We have 25 days annual leave plus 8 public holidays. Part-time staff receive a pro-rated entitlement. We also close the office for the Christmas week and we are not required to save days from our annual leave entitlement for this.

Our contracted hours are 35 per week.  If your job is based at our Peterborough Office, we can offer some flexibility as to how you deliver your role.  We like to be together as a team for a minimum of two days each week, so we can collaborate and learn from one another.  The remaining three days per week can be worked from home if you prefer and is practical to do so.  For some roles it is more practical to be on-site for five days, we will discuss this with you.   

We have a non-contributory pension scheme and life assurance cover, with the organisation providing a 10% contribution into your pension and four times your salary life assurance cover. We also offer a pension salary exchange arrangement if you wish to contribute to your pension.  

We believe in the power of volunteering, that’s why we offer every employee 14 hours volunteering leave per annum.  You can volunteer your time in which ever way suits your interests and preferences.  The principle of this benefit is to create positive impact through volunteering.

Wellbeing

Wellbeing is important and we partner with specialist organisations to support us to support you being well.


Our non-contributory Health Cash Plan reimburses a wide variety of medical related treatments up to agreed limits.  It also includes an Employee Assistance Programme offering support across a range of work and personal issues. 


Other benefits include enhanced Maternity, Adoption, Shared Parental and Paternity pay. 

Volunteer

You can use your skills and talents to help break the chains of leprosy. Whether that means becoming a volunteer speaker, being the Leprosy Mission Contact in your church, fundraising or helping with a specific project, your support will transform lives.

There are several ways you can turn your compassion into action. As a volunteer speaker, you will become one of a team inspiring churches and groups with the vision of a world without leprosy. You’ll receive full training and support. 

If you'd like to help motivate your church or group to help people affected by leprosy, why not become a Leprosy Mission Contact? You'll receive everything you need to keep your community informed and support our campaigns. 

We couldn't do what we do without our wonderful volunteers!


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Safeguarding


The Leprosy Mission has a zero-tolerance policy towards any abuse, neglect and exploitation of all people.  Successful candidates are expected to understand, sign and comply with all organisational policies, including our Code of Conduct and the Safeguarding Policy.  Recruitment to all roles within The Leprosy Mission includes criminal record checks and the collection of relevant references.  A criminal record will not necessarily bar you from joining us as an employee; this will depend on the circumstances of any offences. We are committed to diversity and welcome applications from appropriately qualified people from all sections of the community, who have permission to work in the UK.


Further information


Please see our Annual Report, Meet the senior team, our values and vision here. Please see our Privacy statement for candidates here.

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