Why work for Opencast?

What makes the ideal job? For most people, it’s a balance between interesting and impactful work, a supportive environment, great colleagues, a fair salary, progression opportunities and excellent benefits. We recognise that these are all important.

Making an impact

We believe what we do matters and can have a positive impact on society. Many of the solutions we create are used by millions of people each day, whether that’s improving the accuracy of prescription drug information for the country’s pharmacies, making the UK tax system easier to navigate or looking at ways to improve the usability of the NHS app.

Making an impact

We believe what we do matters and can have a positive impact on society. Many of the solutions we create are used by millions of people each day, whether that’s improving the accuracy of prescription drug information for the country’s pharmacies, making the UK tax system easier to navigate or looking at ways to improve the usability of the NHS app.

A focus on your wellbeing

Your wellbeing matters to us and it’s something we prioritise at Opencast. We try to bake this into our culture, whether that’s ensuring our salaries are aligned to industry standards to creating a safe, inclusive environment. We are focused on: providing a psychologically safe workplace where people are respected, valued and listened to ensuring you have multiple feedback mechanisms where you can share your views and tell us the changes you want to see running social events for our people throughout the year, from big conferences to smaller employee-organised activities like hikes, football, cultural celebrations and socials Offering perks like free hot drinks, fruit and breakfast cereal.

A focus on your wellbeing

Your wellbeing matters to us and it’s something we prioritise at Opencast. We try to bake this into our culture, whether that’s ensuring our salaries are aligned to industry standards to creating a safe, inclusive environment. We are focused on: providing a psychologically safe workplace where people are respected, valued and listened to ensuring you have multiple feedback mechanisms where you can share your views and tell us the changes you want to see running social events for our people throughout the year, from big conferences to smaller employee-organised activities like hikes, football, cultural celebrations and socials Offering perks like free hot drinks, fruit and breakfast cereal.

Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI)

JEDI lies at the heart of what we do as a business. We’re focused on creating a workplace where all identities, attributes, ways of thinking and backgrounds can succeed and thrive. We recognise that it’s essential that we are not only focus on diversity but also on creating opportunities for our people to be seen and heard at all levels. We want to ensure that the diversity of our people reflects the population as a whole, so we can deliver solutions that create a fairer society for all.

Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI)

JEDI lies at the heart of what we do as a business. We’re focused on creating a workplace where all identities, attributes, ways of thinking and backgrounds can succeed and thrive. We recognise that it’s essential that we are not only focus on diversity but also on creating opportunities for our people to be seen and heard at all levels. We want to ensure that the diversity of our people reflects the population as a whole, so we can deliver solutions that create a fairer society for all.

Development and progression

We offer support for you every step of your career to help you achieve your potential. Throughout your time at Opencast, you’ll have regular conversations about your development, and we’ll support you as you work on creating your Professional Development Plan (PDP). Opencast has used the Skillsbuilder Universal Framework to identify the Essential Skills that apply across all roles and levels, while technical skills frameworks and playbooks specific to each team and role are there to provide you with the knowledge you need to thrive. This means you’ll have a clear framework to gauge how you are developing and growing in your role.

Development and progression

We offer support for you every step of your career to help you achieve your potential. Throughout your time at Opencast, you’ll have regular conversations about your development, and we’ll support you as you work on creating your Professional Development Plan (PDP). Opencast has used the Skillsbuilder Universal Framework to identify the Essential Skills that apply across all roles and levels, while technical skills frameworks and playbooks specific to each team and role are there to provide you with the knowledge you need to thrive. This means you’ll have a clear framework to gauge how you are developing and growing in your role.

Our benefits

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  • Salary benchmarked and aligned to industry standards and transparent internally and on job adverts

  • 7% employer pension contribution

  • Share options

  • Financial education service

  • Income protection

  • Death in service: 4x annual salary

  • Bonus scheme

  • Discounted electric vehicle charging at our Newcastle HQ

  • Electric vehicle leasing scheme

Our accreditations

We understand that it’s important to not only set our own focus on this area, but also to work with other organisations to ensure that we’re meeting recommended standards. We have a number of different accreditations and certifications in connection with our inclusive approach:

We understand that it’s important to not only set our own focus on this area, but also to work with other organisations to ensure that we’re meeting recommended standards. We have a number of different accreditations and certifications in connection with our inclusive approach:

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  • Disability confident Employer Logo
  • Shine (formerly Good Work Pledge) Logo
  • Stonewall Diversity Champion Logo
  • Living Wage Employer Logo
  • Miro logo

What our people say

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We welcome conversations or questions around what we do, how we work or the technology we use. Our 'Open Door' allows you to contact us with your questions direct.

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Registered in England and Wales

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Registered in England and Wales

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Registered in England and Wales

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