Working at Capita
Discovering your potential
It's a great time to join us at Capita. We're transforming ourselves as a business – and we're always looking for people who'll live our values and help shape our future.
We're a company with a clear purpose – we create better outcomes
That's something we're always striving to do – for our colleagues, customers, communities and the environment. And we're a company going through our own transformation. We're improving, growing, developing and putting our people first.
Part of the fabric of UK society, we help millions of people every day. We work with everyone from central and local government – including education, transport, health, welfare and the environment – to household names across the private sector.
We're striving to become an even more diverse, inclusive and responsible business, so we need people from all walks of life, with different skills and experiences, and a passion to help us keep getting better.
We're offering more flexibility, a chance to expand your horizons, make an impact and be yourself. You'll find roles all over the world that will allow you to help shape our future.
We welcome applications from anyone with the skills and experience we need. Displaying the right values and behaviours is more important than your background.
Listening to our colleagues
Open communication is important to us as a company and we make sure that our employees have the opportunity to ask questions and share their ideas. One of the most successful ways we do this is through our ‘Ask Jon’ portal – where employees can ask our CEO Jon Lewis a question directly.
In May 2019, we recruited two employees to our Board of Directors. We’re the first FTSE 250 company in 30 years to do this. We did it because we recognise that our people are the ones who know our business best, so it's important that we make sure their voices are heard and we communicate in an open, clear and honest way.
Developing our people
When you succeed, we succeed. We’re growing our expertise by developing skills, providing learning opportunities, supporting our managers and developing everyone’s potential.
Our induction programme and mandatory training educate and empower people to be effective as soon as they join us. We offer technical, management and graduate programmes, as well as apprenticeships, to build our capabilities and grow and nurture talent.
We’ve also created a performance, learning and development centre, called Capita Academy. It’s all about strengthening our people’s performance and potential, so that they can make an impact, shape our future and expand their horizons.
Capita Academy provides a framework which supports people’s developmental needs, strengthens our business, and shares knowledge and expertise to help everyone succeed.
Providing rewards and benefits
As well as standard benefits, we've got voluntary ones too, designed to suit your lifestyle and support your financial, social, physical and mental wellbeing. Here are some of the benefits on offer:
- voluntary health, dental and vision benefits
- company matched pension and life assurance
- the option to buy extra leave
- employee assistance programmes
- season ticket loans
- discounted gym memberships
- cycle to work scheme
- flexible and home working (depending on the role)
- 15 weeks' fully paid maternity, adoption and shared parental leave
- paid time to volunteer in your community
- discounts on leisure, travel, technology, fashion and food.
Many of our offices also provide extra perks, such as free fruit deliveries, lunch clubs, onsite gyms, and yoga classes. Search our live vacancies to see what jobs are on offer in your area.
Building a better environment
We have a responsibility to our people, local communities and the environment. That’s why we're embedding responsible, sustainable and inclusive business practices through our people plans and our community engagement and environmental programmes.
At the heart of this is ensuring that we’re creating a working environment that looks after the wellbeing of our people, encourages open dialogue and ensures that everyone – regardless of their background – is given a voice, and an opportunity to reach their potential.
Many of our sites organise regular social and fundraising events, and everyone has the opportunity to take paid leave to volunteer in their local community. We're also growing our employee groups, such as the Rainbow Alliance – our LGBTQ+ network – and Ellevation, our network for women. Our groups are open to everyone who works at Capita and they focus on raising awareness, expanding our knowledge and strengthening our networks.
Interested?
What we look for in our candidates is previous IT and business experience and a strong background in the public and private sectors. If this sounds like you, then feel free to give me a call on 07864993543 or email me at [email protected]