Work for Break
Since 1968, Break has been there for young people in, around and leaving care. We work with them to create safe, calm environments so they can begin to grow, build confidence and feel a sense of belonging, and our passionate and dedicated team who make this possible.
Be the difference that lasts a lifetime
Based in Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire, we work through a trauma-informed lens to offer fostering, residential care, mentoring and support for young people leaving care to create safe, nurturing spaces where they can build trusting relationships and truly thrive. And, our lifelong offer means we’re by their side for as long as they need us.
Whether you’re experienced or just starting your journey in care, you’ll grow alongside the young people you support, learning and developing together. With high-quality, tailored training, we’ll help you flourish while making a real difference.
If you have any queries about a job vacancy, please contact the recruitment team below:
Our values
We know that change happens through connection, trust, and consistency, and that’s why our values guide everything we do: building meaningful relationships, showing up with compassion, staying curious, and challenging systems that fail young people.
Benefits designed around you
We know that working in children’s social care can be both deeply rewarding and emotionally demanding. That’s why we put just as much care into supporting our team as we do the young people we work alongside.
Our Benefits @ Break package is designed to look after your physical and mental health, help you achieve a healthy work-life balance, and strengthen your financial wellbeing — so you can thrive inside and outside of work.
Here are just some of the benefits every Break team member enjoys:
Benefits at Break
Help with medical expenses for you and your family
Cash plan schemes enable you to claim money back on everyday medical expenses such as prescriptions, private appointments, physio, therapies, eye tests and glasses. Staff also have access to Virtual GP, SkinVision, mProve Yourself, Gym discounts and Medicash Extras.
Counselling, life coaching or help with debt problems
Because we care about our employees, we decided to invest even more in your wellbeing. We have partnered with Health Assured and are pleased to introduce our EAP to help you deal with personal problems that might adversely impact your health and wellbeing.
This means that you and your immediate family have access to assessment, short-term counselling and referral services, such as employee counselling, financial and debt counselling.
Here, have some extra well-earned time off work
Even though Break is the most awesome place to work, we recognise the importance of taking time out and having a healthy work-life balance, which is why we totally understand that you may look forward to some well-earned time off.
We already offer enhanced annual leave entitlements, starting at 23 days per annum (plus bank holidays). But what better way to reward hard work and dedication than to add extra days off to our employees’ annual leave entitlement? We will add one day to your annual leave entitlement, effective the holiday year following your 2, 5, 10, 15 and 20-year anniversaries.
Break makes a pension salary sacrifice scheme available for employees to provide for their retirement.
This means employees may choose to make their pension contribution via salary sacrifice, or may increase their portion of their pension contribution via salary sacrifice, thus reducing the amount of tax and NI that they pay for the chosen duration of the period of salary sacrifice.
Break appreciates the importance of family, so this policy familiarises our employees with the structures Break has put in place to ensure all our employees can contribute to the care of their dependants.
We are introducing occupational maternity and parental pay, details of which can be found in the policy. In addition to the Maternity and Adoption leave and pay offering to our employees, the newly introduced Neonatal care leave and pay provides time off to qualifying employees for the neonatal care of their babies. We also make provision for foster parents, which matches the occupational parental leave.
Making sure your loved ones are looked after
Break appreciates that we all want our loved ones to be provided for with immediate expenses in the unfortunate event of our death, which is why, on successful completion of their probationary period, Break employees are eligible to join the Break Free Life Assurance Scheme.
This will provide a benefit to their nominee in the event of their death, equal to three times their annual salary or 3x£15,000, whichever is greater.
Save money and get fit on your way to work
The cycle-to-work scheme offers a great way to buy a bicycle, by way of a salary sacrifice.
Simply head to Cyclescheme and apply for the cost of your bicycle and, provided the purchase will not result in your earnings falling below the National Minimum Wage, Break will authorise the application and pay the invoice.Once the invoice is paid, you will receive a voucher from Cyclescheme, then you can buy your bike from any participating retailer
A great way to get your hands on some new tech!
Techscheme provides a great way for you to choose from thousands of products, including laptops, phones, smart health, white goods, gaming, photography, by way of a salary sacrifice.
Thousands of local and national discounts
Because we all enjoy a good discount, Break staff have free access to the Blue Light Card, which provides you with thousands of amazing discounts online and on the high street. You can buy groceries and much more.
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