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Benefits

Whatever your role, we take your career and development seriously, and want to enable you to build a really successful career with the Agency and wider Civil Service. It is crucial that our employees have the right skills to develop their careers and meet the challenges ahead. You’ll benefit from regular performance and development reviews to ensure this development is ongoing. As a Civil Service employee, you’ll be entitled to a large range of benefits.

This includes:

26 days’ annual leave on entry, increasing to 31 days after 5 years’ service. This leave is in addition to 8 public holidays;

If you are an active police pension member immediately prior to joining the NCA, you can continue you membership throughout your employment with us as if you were a serving police officer. If you do remain an active member and subsequently return to a police force, you should be able to continue your membership there too.

a competitive contributory pension scheme that you can enter as soon as you join where we will make a significant contribution to the cost of your pension; where your contributions come out of your salary before any tax is taken; and where your pension will continue to provide valuable benefits for you and your family if you are too ill to continue to work or die before you retire;

flexible working patterns including access to Flexible Working Schemes, and part-time and job share options allowing you to vary your working day as long as you work your total hours;

all NCA officers can apply for a formal change to their working hours, pattern or location. However, acceptance of Alternative Working Arrangements depends on a number of aspects such as business needs.

generous paid maternity and paternity leave which is notably more than the statutory minimum offered by many other employers;

childcare benefits (policy for new employees as of 5 April 2018). The government has introduced the Tax-Free Childcare (TFC) scheme. Working parents can open an online childcare account and for every £8 they pay in, the government adds £2, up to a maximum of £2000 a year for each child or £4000 for a disabled child. Parents then use the funds to pay for registered childcare. Existing employees may be able to continue to claim childcare vouchers, so please check how the policy would work for you here;