Working at the Devonshire Group
Colleague benefits
We are committed to ensuring the happiness and wellbeing of everyone in the Devonshire Group and have a range of fantastic benefits for our colleagues.
Colleague pass
Your colleague pass provides complimentary entry to a range of places and events, as well as discounts in our shops, hotels, inns and cafés.
Flexible working
We value the diverse lifestyles of our colleagues which is why, where possible, we provide flexible working options to help balance work and personal life, enabling everyone to perform at their best.
Employee Assistance Programme
We prioritise the wellbeing of our colleagues and take pride in our partnership with our Employee Assistance Programme SIX MHS, as well as our dedicated team of mental health first aiders.
Wellness activities
We encourage colleagues to participate in our calendar of free wellness activities and workshops, while also providing subsidised sports massage and health club memberships.
Colleague recognition
We love to recognise our colleagues, and run schemes to publicly acknowledge their service and great work both with customers and visitors, or by supporting their colleagues or communities.
Social events
Each year we invite colleagues to private view events and our annual parties in Derbyshire and Yorkshire. We also host a Christmas party each year for the children of our team members.
Financial wellbeing
We provide a company-matched contributory pension plan, life assurance equivalent to four times your basic salary, and access to a comprehensive Financial Wellbeing programme through Lifetime.
Generous holiday allowance
Our team members benefit from a generous holiday allowance that exceeds the statutory minimum, with the added flexibility to purchase additional time off if desired.
Travel schemes
We offer a cycle to work scheme, EV salary sacrifice scheme and free parking at all locations, as well as free bus travel on selected routes. For appropriate roles and locations we offer a company car allowance.
Communication
It’s important for us to keep colleagues up-to-date on what’s happening across the Group through our colleague app, regular newsletters, annual briefings, team meetings and 1-2-1s.
Training and development
We support our colleagues at every level with opportunities to train and upskill, with their professional development, or through gaining additional qualifications accredited through for example the Institute of Leadership and Management.
We take the development of our people seriously, and like nothing more than to see colleagues move between departments to gain new skills (our colleagues are often multi-skilled across our businesses), gain a promotion or mentor trainees and apprentices. For us this contributes to our success and our colleagues have great stories of their development with The Devonshire Group.
We recently introduced our Devonshire Hospitality Academy to develop talent across the organisation, and we place significant effort into the development of our colleagues to ensure that we are never complacent.
What makes us a special place to work
We take pride in our warm and friendly atmosphere, where our colleagues and volunteers feel valued and empowered. Through direct feedback and our annual survey, it is clear that they enjoy their work, are passionate about their contributions, and align with our core values of always improving, decency and being inclusive. This is evident in every corner of our diverse organisation.
Our values
The vision of the Devonshire Group is to benefit our heritage, our people and our shared future.
We believe in:
Always improving
Whatever we do, we strive in our own ways, big and small, to improve how we do things.
Decency
Decency is at the heart of the way every one of us behaves and acts – we understand the importance of doing the right thing.
Being inclusive
The best decisions are the ones that are inclusive; strengthening the relationships we have with both our colleagues and people outside our enterprises.
Diversity in action and behaviour
To us, Being Inclusive means diversity in action and behaviour. Diversity is the mix of people, being inclusive is about actively advocating for that mix and taking tangible steps that lead to meaningful and lasting change. In an inclusive and diverse environment, everyone can contribute to making great business decisions and team performance by reflecting, respecting and relating to our colleagues, volunteers, customers, visitors and communities.
We advocate inclusion and we celebrate diversity. We ensure that each employee feels welcome, respected and able to be their true self at work; we believe when this happens, our colleagues can achieve their full potential.
A greener Devonshire Group
With a spirit of stewardship inherent to life on our estates, we recognise our responsibility to address the new sustainability challenges of our time, such as climate change, natural resource scarcity, and enhanced threats to wildlife diversity and habitat.
Sustainability is a way of thinking, adopted at all levels of the Devonshire Group. As with our vision and values, sustainability can be seen in the actions and ideas of our people. It is our colleagues and volunteers who are the driving force behind delivering meaningful change.
