Your Development and Rewards
Your Development
We are committed to providing the professional opportunities and support required to help you achieve your personal development goals.
Our 'Individual Performance Review' process will focus on agreeing a personal plan between you and your manager, so that from your early days you can benefit from continuous professional feedback, guidance and support on how to develop your skills and your career.
We also encourage people to form support and mentoring networks to share knowledge and experience, to the benefit of their personal development and to enhance individual and team contribution.
Your Learning
We want top-performing teams, so we help and encourage our people to develop their skills and advance in the company. We create an environment where you can learn and develop yourself to your full potential.
As an employee of Chaucer the following career development resources are available:
- Our Learning and Development team are dedicated to provide ongoing support with your development (from induction, through to technical training and personal skills
- We have links with professional external training providers that can also provide you with specialist training
- All staff are included within our competency based appraisal system, which forms the basis for individual development plans
- We arrange for guest speakers from around the Lloyd’s and London Market to give presentations on various topics and issues that are relevant to the business
- Annual visits to prestigious institutions such as the Katie School of Insurance and Financial Institutions
Your Qualifications
Chaucer fully encourages and supports employees that wish to undertake job-related professional study. Our reward scheme for professional qualifications is well within the top quartile within the Lloyd's market.
- ACII / DipCII / CertCI I/ LLMIT / FIT sponsored insurance exams
- CIMA / ACCA / AAT sponsored accountancy and finance exams
- FIA sponsored actuarial exams
- CIPD sponsored human resource exams
- CIM sponsored marketing exams
Your Rewards
Employees at Chaucer enjoy a comprehensive benefits package which is continuously reviewed against the profile of our people and against the external environment. Having recently initiated a benchmarking survey in the Lloyd’s market we remain confident of our competitiveness and, as an organisation, we remain committed to rewarding our employees for their efforts.
In addition to offering competitive basic salaries, we offer the following standard benefits package:
- Holidays - 25 days annual holiday and an additional day at Christmas
- Competitive Contributory Pension
- Life Assurance
- BUPA - Cover for Single, Married, Family or Co-Habitee cover
- An Employee Assistance Programme
- Season Ticket Loan
- Private Health Insurance
- All Employee Share Option Plan schemes
- Sabbatical policy after 10 years of service
Our Social Committee
Chaucer has a very active social committee which is responsible for organising a wide range of social events throughout the year, including themed quiz nights, for which our chef caters, and sports events such as horse racing at Windsor.
We organise a social event each month and have an annual summer day where in the past we have participated in an It's-A-Knockout competition, dragon boat racing and a treasure hunt around London.
