Hammersmith & Fulham Council

Our commitment to the Armed Forces Community

We are committed to supporting the Armed Forces, Reserves, Veterans, and their families through all aspects of their employment. We are proud to be a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant - a pledge to ensure that those who serve or have served and their families are treated fairly, and to support the forces through services, policy and projects. This applies to jobs at the council as well as accessing support from the WorkZone team for external opportunities.

We will seek to uphold the principles of the Armed Forces Covenant, both as an employer and as a local authority by: 

• Promoting the fact that we are an armed forces-friendly organisation;
• Seeking to support the employment of veterans and working with the Career Transition Partnership (CTP), in order to establish a tailored employment pathway for Service Leavers
• Striving to support the employment of Service spouses and partners;
• Endeavouring to offer a degree of flexibility in granting leave for Service spouses and partners before, during and after a partner’s deployment;
• Seeking to support our employees who choose to be members of the Reserve forces, including by accommodating their training and deployment where possible;
• Offering support to our local cadet units, either in our local community or in local schools
• Aiming to actively participate in Armed Forces Day;
• Working with voluntary, charity, faith and independent sector organisations to improve access to employment opportunities for the armed forces community. 

Hammersmith & Fulham have also achieved the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) Gold Award, for demonstrating our commitment to being an Armed Forces-friendly company. 

About us

In Hammersmith & Fulham, we take a different perspective on local government. We want to be the best council in the country. And that means doing things differently to what's gone before. So we're looking for people who understand our vision and share our view of the world.

We believe councils can radically change people's lives for the better, particularly when they give a real say to their residents in designing services and developing policies. That's what drives our relentless search for better ways of working.

Within the H&F vision we have six priority values: 

• Building shared prosperity
• Creating a compassionate council
• Doing things with local residents, not to them
• Being ruthlessly financially efficient
• Taking pride in H&F
• rising to the challenge of the climate and ecological emergency. 

We care for the people who work for us. We want them to feel their days with us are the very best in their careers. We believe that supporting people to grow and achieve is good for everyone.

So if you share our values and are excited by our vision, we'd love to hear from you.

The benefits of working for H&F:

• very competitive pay rates
• access to the Local Government Pensions Scheme
• competitive annual leave entitlement
• cycle to work scheme
• employee discount scheme
• variety of flexible working options
• employee volunteering scheme
• employee assistance programme
• excellent learning & development opportunities
• performance management and career progression support.