What we can offer you
We offer modern work practices, enabling colleagues to balance hybrid working with the requirement to work from their fixed locality office base to offer a face-to-face service to our customers.
You will be provided with technology to enable efficient and effective work, ensuring that you are connected and well-supported when working from home.
We also encourage our teams to come together regularly for development, connection and collaboration.
You are provided with a comprehensive benefits package with an excellent employer-defined pension scheme and enhanced holidays to help you thrive at home as well as work.
Why work for us
We are a strong performing authority, with supportive political leadership and talented teams providing the platform to have a fulfilling, challenging and successful career in a truly stunning place.
A recent peer survey found that the council is a good place to work, with strong leadership and a loyal and committed workforce who have access to well-regarded training and development.
We pride ourselves on being an employer of choice, offering a range of training and development opportunities and career progression allowing you to manage your own development journey and empowering you to control your career.
We believe in the importance of inclusion, which is why we are always working towards being a more diverse, equitable and inclusive employer. Find out more about our equality, diversity and inclusion work on our working for us page. You can bring your whole self to work, and we will support you to be the best that you can be.
Our values are Inclusive, Ambitious, Creative, Together (‘I ACT’). Our values, behaviours and ambitions underpin everything we do. These values guide how we are – with our customers, partners and each other – and help drive the way we work together to achieve the council’s ambitions. The success of our new council is achieved not just by what we do, but also how we do it. I ACT values are described in our behaviours, enabling all of us to demonstrate our values in everything we do, and to establish a culture that supports our diverse communities across North Yorkshire.
In addition to your salary, we offer a range of great benefits to help you financially and make life a bit easier.
These include:
- a local government, career average employer contribution pension scheme
- salary sacrifice schemes
- modern flexible working practices
- learning and development packages
- career advancement opportunities
- employee discount benefits including shopping and gym discounts
- green car and cycle schemes
- travel loans
- Health Assured – confidential help and support for your wellbeing
You can find more information on the range of benefits we offer on our total rewards page.
Watch this video to find out about our employee networks.
Living and working in North Yorkshire
North Yorkshire is a thriving county that adapts to a changing world and remains a special place to live and work.
North Yorkshire's natural beauty is captured in its three areas of outstanding natural parks, national nature reserves, stunning coastlines, scenic rural villages, vibrant cities and market towns. North Yorkshire really is a beautiful, thriving and special place to live and work, rich in heritage and culture.
North Yorkshire features significantly in the ten best places to live in the UK in the Halifax Quality of Life survey. This index aims to quantify where living standards are highest in the UK by ranking local performance across a range of indicators. Local areas featured in the top ten included Richmond, Selby and Malton.
Figures released by the Office for National Statistics bulletin positions North Yorkshire as the safest place in England with extremely low crime rates.
In addition, the county benefits from excellent road and rail links, with easy access via the east coast mainline, the A1(M) and A19. Leeds, York, Newcastle, Durham and Teesside are all easily commutable, and London and Edinburgh are just two hours away by train.
From its lively cities to pretty villages, rolling countryside and grand coastline, Yorkshire has so much to offer including great employment opportunities for your family members, along with a higher proportion of schools which are good or outstanding compared to national figures.
You can find out more about what North Yorkshire has to offer on the No place like North Yorkshire website.
Application tips
You can find lots of useful information on our advice page.
Contact us and apply
If you feel you have the skills, passion, and drive that we are seeking, we want to hear from you.
For an informal chat about opportunities available across the county, please send your CV to sophie.hills@northyorks.gov.uk.
To apply for any role, please submit your application via our jobs and careers site.
We will not accept applications from agencies.
