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Our benefits

We have a range of benefits designed and tailored to you.

Private medical insurance

Protection for when things go wrong and advice and discounts to help you keep well.
Flexible annual leave

Buy, sell or even carry some holiday over to next year.
Employee assistance programme

A 24/7 external service for you and your family's welfare.
Life assurance

Four times your salary life assurance for all employees with the option to increase your cover.
Pension scheme

To help you save for your retirement, you can pay 5% of your basic salary monthly and we'll contribute 6% as a minimum for all employees.
Health assessments

Fully funded annual health assessment, supporting preventative care and ongoing well-being.

See what our people say about life at Optum:

Flexible working has allowed me to spend the last year exploring the UK while working on some life-changing health projects. I don’t think there are many companies that offer such a supportive work-life balance and recognise the benefits of flexible working.

Andrew Moss
Associate Planning and Strategy Director
Our son was delivered via emergency c-section resulting in my wife being unable to drive or lift anything heavier than him for 6 weeks. Luckily EMIS [now Optum] now give 6 weeks of paternity leave so I was able to be there to support them for much longer than expected. I will be forever grateful for the extra time with them, it would have been so difficult to return after just 2 weeks.

Luke Smith
Lead Solution Architect
I couldn’t be more grateful and appreciative of the six weeks I have had to be able to spend with my wife and our new baby boy. Those first few weeks were so important for me to bond with my son and something I will never ever forget.

Adele Saker-Wood
Senior Customer Success Manager

Our benefits

Choose what works for you

Our benefits package is very flexible, so you can choose additional benefits that work for you. Here are just a few that you can choose from:

Travel perks

Cycle to work scheme, car salary sacrifice and season travel card.
Shopping discounts and vouchers

A way to help reduce the cost of every day life and life's luxuries.
Health and wellbeing

Free eye test and critical illness cover.
Carbon offsetting

The option to pay monthly contributions towards the planting of trees to help reduce the carbon footprint.
Development

Access to free LinkedIn Learning and a mentoring programme to help you develop in your career.

Our leave policies

Our leave policies reflect the flexible working we want our colleagues to have, to ensure a good work-life balance.

Maternity leave

Up to 26 weeks' at full pay and 13 weeks' at statutory pay for colleagues with over 12 months' service. Gender neutral family leave for expectant parental and adoption leave is in line with maternity leave pay.

Partner/paternity leave

Six weeks' full paid leave for colleagues with over 26 weeks' service.

Emergency dependants leave

Three days' full pay in any 12 month period, available to all employees.

Employee Giving and Volunteering

Receive a 1:1 match for donations to eligible charities and earn rewards for tracking volunteering hours.

Ready to join us?

View our vacancies and apply now or if you have any questions, feel free to message our talent team at uk.careers@optum.com.

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