The benefits offered by Aster Group

The benefits on offer at Aster Group:

Pension and financial wellbeing

• The Social Housing Pension Scheme (SHPS) master trust, available for all employees with auto-enrolment contribution levels of 4% employee and 4% employer.
• Financial webinars.
• Pension one-to-ones, employer-paid.
• Retirement modeller.

Healthcare and wellbeing

• Health cash plans with Simply Health for all employees, employer-funded at level one, with additional cover options available for employees to purchase.
• Aster Wellbeing Offer: support, tools and training and awareness opportunities for employees to manage their own wellbeing, infographics, podcasts and webinars.
• Reconnect and rebalance wellbeing campaign to support employees in the move from homeworking to a hybrid working model.
• Mental health first aiders.
• Employee assistance programme (EAP).
• Thrive app which includes cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) sessions, mindfulness and meditation tools.
• Physical wellbeing webinars.
• Virtual GP sessions.
• Virtual physiotherapists.
• Zoom Yoga and Zumba sessions.
• Eye test vouchers.

Other benefits

• Volunteering opportunities.
• Payroll giving scheme.
• Bikes-for-work scheme.
• Voluntary benefits platform with Perkbox.

Company car

• Car allowance for some employees.

Work/life balance or family-friendly policies

• Flexible working, some limitations around certain roles
• Maternity and paternity leave policies

Holidays

• New contracts include 26 days
• Flexible leave policy for additional leave
• An extra day after two years’ service

Employee recognition

• Peer-to-peer recognition each month, all leaders have a recognition budget to spend how they see fit.
• Annual awards, The Aster Way Awards, which recognise both teams and individuals throughout the business.