Benefits of working with us

Equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI)

We are passionate about treating people fairly and with equality, doing so is instinctive to us. We know that to Beat Macular Disease for all we have work to do. We recognise this and we are resolute that what we do and how we do it is inclusive – for everyone.

This is our goal, but we also have an EDI framework, action plans and committed team members working on ways we can Beat Macular Disease - for all.

Health cash plan

We’ve partnered with BUPA to offer our team members access to a 24/7 helpline with a specially trained nurse, as well as the ability to claim back costs towards dental treatments, prescription glasses and contact lenses, physiotherapy and chiropractic appointments, private hospital consultations for diagnosis purposes and much more.

The cash plan enables our team members to claim back the cost towards routine appointments and can also be used for physiotherapy and chiropractic treatments without needing a referral from a GP.

The plan covers our team members and up to four children, aged 23 and under, with the option to increase the level of cover or add a partner by paying an additional premium.

Team members also have access to hundreds of deals and discounts through BUPA Rewards linked to the health cash plan.

Eye health

It goes without saying that your eye health is important to us here at the Macular Society. There are certain legal obligations that require all those who work with display screens to have an eye test every two years and that your employer should pay for this. However, we want to go beyond this.

Which is why we offer all employees, every two years, the option to use a prepaid voucher for use in Specsavers which will cover:

• Your eye test.
• One pair of glasses from the £49 range, or £49 towards
  glasses.
• An additional £20 off when purchasing from the £99 range.
• If no prescription is required, a pair of non -prescription
  sunglasses.

In addition to the above we will cover the cost of a £10 Optical coherence tomography (OCT) scan. Employees who are also health cash plan members can also use the optical cash back benefit as part of the cash plan.

Family friendly policies

We recognise that we all have lives outside of our work, which is why we offer opportunities to work flexibility and offer a range of enhanced family leave policies. In addition, we also provide emergency and compassionate leave.

We know that having a family is a big commitment to make and we want to be able to help during this life changing time, we genuinely value our diverse team and so we have put in place supportive policies such as:

• Up to five days paid dependants leave to care for dependants in the event of illness.
• Paid leave for fertility treatment
• Paid foster leave
• Paid miscarriage leave
• Enhanced maternity paid leave – 8 weeks full pay, 12 weeks half pay and the remaining at statutory pay.
• Adoption and shared parental leave that mirrors our maternity pay.
• Two weeks paid paternity leave

Learning and development

Enabling staff to continuously develop is a key part of our charity's strategy. To support both professional and personal development we offer a variety of in-house and external training and development opportunities, including accessible e-learning for our teams.

Read more on our values.