Join as a police officer
2. Employee benefits
As a member of the Northamptonshire Police family, not only do you get the satisfaction of working with a great team to make a real change to people's lives, but you can also access a fantastic range of employee benefits.
At Northamptonshire Police we understand that your work-life balance is important. As such, we will support you in your career by being a flexible employer who understands your needs.
As a full-time police constable you will have 22 days paid annual holiday, rising to 30 days a year depending on your length of service.
Bank holidays
All employees are entitled to eight statutory public/bank holidays, to be taken on the designated day or, if this falls on one of your working days, you are entitled to take it on an alternative day. Part-time employees will have bank holidays on a pro-rata basis.
Aside from a competitive salary, we offer a range of financial benefits and services including:
- Tax free childcare - government scheme
- Free mortgage surgery events
- Debt management support
- Group insurance schemes
- Savings scheme e.g. CopperPot
- Bonus payments
- Free parking at most of our sites across Northamptonshire
Pensions
When you join you will automatically be opted in to the Police Pension Scheme, which offers generous employer contributions. Although you are automatically opted in, you have the option to opt out if you wish.
Northamptonshire Police offer a range of training and development opportunities to help staff and officers reach their full potential, including:
- Apprenticeships
- Coaching and mentoring support
- Revision and exam leave
- Training courses
- Personal development reviews (PDRs)
our staff and officers, including:
- Access to support through the force Chaplaincy
- Occupational health services, including workplace needs assessments and support
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Specsavers Corporate eye-care scheme
- Maternity/Paternity leave benefits
- Carers Leave
- Parental Leave
Our employee assistance programme - provided by Health Assured - is available 24/7 and offers telephone or face-to-face counselling and advice around a variety of issues, from debt management to emotional support for all employees and their immediate family.
You will have access to a range of supportive and active staff support networks, including, but not limited to:
- Christian Police Association
- Disability and Carers Support Network
- LGBT+ Network
- Jewish Police Association
- Maternity Buddies
- Neurodiversity Support Network
For a small monthly fee, our Sports Club is open to all officers and staff, and provides access to force gyms and sports clubs, including netball, football and rugby. They also provide discounts and offers to events and days out.
The Sports Club also run the Force Lottery, where you can win weekly prizes of up to £1000.
Staff and officers can access a wide range of lifestyle discounts by registering for a Blue Light Card, which provides hundreds of discounts to emergency service workers. These span across a large range of categories and include:
- Apple products
- Theme parks, including Thorpe Park and Alton Towers
- Sky, Virgin and EE
- Hotels and holiday discounts including Expedia and Jet2
- Cinema discounts
- High street discounts including Joules, Domino’s, Zizzi, Starbucks
