Perks
Why choose us? If you want to work with a great team where the pay, perks and training are top notch, Checkatrade is it.
Full range of perks
We offer a number of additional perks that encompass what we are all about: family-friendly, health & wellbeing and personal & professional growth. Your family is important to you, so they matter to us too. Which is why we make sure our great team get a good work/life balance along with a healthy work environment, (free food anybody?!) and an amazing working culture. Here are just some of the tons of things that make Checkatrade a great place to work.
Reward and recognition
Here’s just some of the benefits you could look forward to if you join the Checkatrade team!
Wellness cashplan
Work with us and you’ll be entitled to healthcare cover paid for by the business as a taxable benefit. Our provider WPA allows you to claim back money on opticians, dentists and hospital stays so you can keep your health in check.
Free Gym membership
Get fit with us! Our gym membership is a taxable benefit which means it’s so low cost, you’ll barely notice it – so make the most of it!
24/7 healthcare
We’ve partnered with eMed to bring you an Online GP service. You’re able to talk to a doctor in minutes 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and pick up prescriptions or have them delivered to your door – all through the click of the eMed app.
Enhanced parental leave
Supporting you and your family is important to us. So, we pay enhanced maternity and paternity pay to help you enjoy your time off at this exciting time. Our maternity pay is 26 weeks at full pay followed by SMP. Our paternity pay is up to four weeks at full pay. Qualifying criteria applies.
Discounts and cash back
You’ll get access to hundreds of discounts on gadgets and gizmos, special offers and vouchers and you can claim cashback too.
Smart tech
Can’t live without a Kindle? Need the latest iPad? Once you’ve passed probation, our Smart tech schemes let you get the gadgets you want whilst spreading the payments interest free for up to 24 months (depending on how long you’ve worked with us.)
EV Scheme
An electric vehicle salary exchange scheme lets you pay for an electric car each month using your gross salary – that’s before tax and other contributions are deducted. Salary exchange schemes allow you to see significant savings through benefit-in-kind tax. This is simple, cost effective and worry and emission free option to lease a brand new car!
Learning and Development
Lifelong learning is important to us. That’s why we offer two paid days off every academic year if you’re working towards a work-related qualification. Whether you’re preparing for an exam or have an assignment deadline, take the time to gain the best professional qualification you can.
Paid Volunteer leave
How does one week every year to support a cause close to you in addition to your annual leave sound? Once you’ve passed probation, you can join employees who have volunteered at a wide range of charities.
Birthdays off
Celebrate your special day with an additional day’s leave on us!
EDI and wellbeing
Belonging
We pride ourselves on fostering a culture of inclusivity and building a sense of belonging – so everyone who works here is supported to be at their best.
We’re proud to say that women make up 26% of our total tech workforce and 35% of our senior leadership team. We have an established “Women In Tech” network, who are supported to explore their tech careers and grow their influence and networks.
We’re for everyone and we build together for our customers.
Wellbeing
Your health and wellbeing is important and reflected in the types of benefits we offer. From an on-demand GP to healthcare cash plans, private medical insurance (for certain roles) and gym membership. We offer enhanced benefits for our people planning or starting a family, with our dedicated fertility and family planning partner, Apricity.
We have an Employee Assistance line, to help you manage your physical and mental health. We also have a dedicated, fully-trained team of Mental Health First Aiders to provide in-house support and guidance to our people.
Doing the Right Thing
Doing good things that achieve good outcomes for our people and the wider Checkatrade community is paramount. At Checkatrade, our CSR activity is focussed in three areas: charity, community and sustainability.
Charity and community
We encourage people to donate their time and skills in their local communities, with each person at Checkatrade getting five days volunteering leave (in addition to their annual leave) to spend how they choose, supporting causes that are close to their hearts.
We also offer a payroll giving scheme as well as the chance to sign up to the Pennies From Heaven programme – a hassle-free way to round up your salary and donate the extra pennies to charity.
We are also honoured to be a corporate partner of Hampshire-based charity, Sophie’s Legacy, who were chosen by our colleagues as our charity of the year for 2024.
Most recently we’ve also partnered with Lighthouse Charity, an organisation dedicated to supporting the emotional, physical, and financial wellbeing of the construction community in the UK and Ireland.
Sustainability
We support the UK’s mission towards the decarbonisation of homes and households. We all need to do better and Checkatrade wants to help. We’re proud to have a number of initiatives which help our teams become greener, our consumers to retrofit their homes, and our industry to have more skilled trades working in to green jobs.
Some of the ways we help our teams to contribute to a greener world are: offices powered by renewable energy, Carbon Trust Pledge and eco-bottles to reduce single use plastic. For travel, whether you are about two wheels or four wheels, we’ve got you covered with a Cycle to Work Scheme and a subsidised Electric Vehicle scheme.
