Working at Karbon
We’re proud to employ over 1,000 people who are dedicated to providing essential and important services to around 60,000 customers. We’re thrilled that our latest colleague survey revealed their happiness and pride in working with us, too.
We truly believe that our success is driven by our talented and committed team, and we invest in their growth and development through training and a range of opportunities.
And promoting equity, celebrating diversity and championing the rights of our customers and colleagues is vital to us, too – find out more below.
Making sure we reward our colleagues and offer a range of benefits is also really important to us, so we offer competitive rates of pay, healthcare plans, a wellbeing package and much more.
Here at Karbon, we also strongly believe that we don’t juggle work and life, rather we balance work and life. We have family-friendly policies and a range of agile and flexible working options available.
Why join us?
Inclusion and belonging
Here at Karbon Homes, we’re renowned for our warmth and our welcoming, passionate and inclusive nature.
We promote equity, celebrate diversity and champion the rights of our customers and colleagues. We are promoting and embedding equality, diversity and inclusion into everything we do – whether that’s building or adapting homes to make them accessible for all; making certain everyone can understand the communications we send; or working with local charities to ensure the voices of any underrepresented groups are heard – the list is endless.
We value diversity
Valuing diversity brings new perspectives, allows us to reach the widest pool of talent and ensures we understand and reflect the perspectives of our customers. We believe we can only be our best when we can be ourselves.
While we are very proud of our journey so far, we are by no means finished. We know that our board members and colleagues don’t reflect the diversity of the communities we work in. But what we can offer is a warm and welcoming place to work where we support you to be yourself.
So that’s where you come in. We want you to bring your diversity, all of the unique elements that make you who you are and the lived experience that helps us to bring the best we can to our customers.
Learning and development
At Karbon, we have development for everyone, and what that development looks like is down to you!
You’re empowered to access a range of development opportunities that will support your personal and professional learning – from formal qualifications, to internal programmes, attending conferences, professional accreditations and more.
We actively encourage you to create a bespoke development pathway with support from your manager and our team of development experts.
It’s not just about getting to the next step either – in fact most of our training activity focuses on supporting people with their continued professional development in their current role, helping them to stay on top of their game. For example, we have supported joiners to gain locksmithing skills, housing officers to gain mediation skills and our communications team to gain videography skills and qualifications.
Wellbeing
At the heart of our culture is ensuring and optimising our colleagues’ health and wellbeing.
Our wellbeing activity is focused on areas that colleagues have told us are important to them, as you can see in the infographic. Each theme is supported by a senior leader at Karbon.
We’re also delighted to share that we have been awarded the ‘Continuing Excellence’ award as part of the Better Health at Work Award.
Having already achieved ‘Gold’ level, the Continued Excellence award recognises the importance of organisations, like ours, sustaining the progress they’ve made, encouraging us to use our experience to support others.
The assessors were really impressed with the contribution of our Health Advocates and Mental Health Allies along with the overall approach we take to colleagues’ wellbeing.
