Why work with us?

Our working environment


We have a multi-award-winning home, in the Ortus building in Denmark Hill. We have hybrid working arrangements and ask that full-time members of the team, or those working a 4-day week, spend a minimum of 2 days per week in our office at the Ortus.


It is important to us to come together often, whether that’s to collaborate, be social, or get a change of scenery. The whole staff team comes together once at least once a month.


Situated a few minutes’ walk from Denmark Hill station, south London, the Ortus building is close to the Maudsley Hospital and Kings College London’s Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, both centres of world class excellence in the field of mental health and wellbeing.


The building is open to the public, hosting exhibitions, events and conferences, as well as being available for room hire.

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We offer a friendly, values-led working culture, with the following benefits for our staff:


  • Hybrid working:  a minimum of 2 days with the team in our building each week and the rest at home/offsite working. It’s important for us to come together often, whether that’s to collaborate, be social, or get a change of scenery.


  • 25 days’ annual leave, with a further one day after 3 years’ service and a further one day after 5 years’ service. Plus, additional non-working office closure days over the Christmas period.


  • Pension scheme  with up to 6% employer contribution, subject to a minimum 3% employee contribution.


  • A cycle-to-work scheme.


  • Enhanced occupational maternity, paternity, adoption, and shared parental leave pay  (after qualifying length of service).


  • Interest-free season ticket loans (after probation).


  • Group Life Assurance – providing employees with a tax-free lump sum of four times your basic salary in the event of your death, for your dependants (after qualifying length of service).


  • Group Income Protection Scheme – protecting you if you are sick long-term, by paying 75% of your basic salary with a deferred period of 13 weeks (after qualifying length of service).


  • Comprehensive package of online and face-to-face training for staff.


  • Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) – supporting staff to stay well.


  • 20% discount on all food and drinks at the Ortus café.


  • Working in an inclusive environment where diversity, equity and inclusion is completely embedded. We ensure our pace, and our ways of working delivers our commitment, as well as specific opportunities such as sitting on our DEI and Ways of Working groups.


  • Working with a diverse team, Board of Trustees and colleagues across our partners.


Blue checkmark with

Established in 2004, Mindful Employer is a UK wide initiative run by Devon Partnership NHS Trust.


Providing employers with easier access to professional Workplace Mental Health training, information and support, the initiative aims to help empower employers to take a lead in supporting the mental wellbeing of their staff.


By signing the ‘Charter for Employer Positive About Mental Health’, Maudsley Charity have made a public statement of our desire to support the mental health of our staff across the organisation.

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As a Disability Confident Committed Employer we have committed to:


• ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible

• communicating and promoting vacancies

• offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job

• anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required, supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work

• at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people

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​In this workplace, we recognise and celebrate our colleagues’ identities. We are a community built on an ethos of equality and respect where hair texture and style have no bearing on an employee's ability to succeed.

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