Supporting Our People: Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Policies

Supporting Our People: Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Policies

Supporting Our People: Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Policies

At Omnia, our people are at the heart of everything we do and that means supporting them not only in their careers but also in their work-life balance. We’re proud to introduce our newly enhanced maternity and paternity benefits, designed to give families the time, stability, and flexibility they need during life’s biggest milestones. 

We are a SME providing geo-environmental, geotechnical, acoustic and air quality consultancy across the UK. Our teams of consultants, as well as all business support staff, are eligible for the enhanced maternity and paternity pay if they have at least 30 months of service by the end of the 15th week before the child is expected to be born. 

Enhanced Maternity Pay

Our Enhanced Maternity Pay offers significantly more support than the statutory minimum, giving new parents greater financial security and peace of mind during their leave. 

Eligible employees can now receive: 

  • 10 weeks at 100% pay 
  • 8 weeks at 75% pay 
  • 8 weeks at 50% pay 
  • 13 weeks Statutory Maternity Pay 

This is followed by an optional phased return period of 13 weeks parttime before resuming contracted hours. Flexible work requests are also available to our employees when they return from maternity leave. 

This means up to 39 weeks of paid support, reinforcing our commitment to supporting longterm wellbeing. This places Omnia, an SME, amongst some of the top companies for maternity pay.  

To find out specific details about our maternity policy, please contact us: [email protected] 

Enhanced Paternity Pay 

We’re equally proud to offer one of the strongest paternity packages in our sector. Eligible employees are entitled to: 

  • Up to 3 weeks at full pay, plus 
  • 1 week at statutory pay, totalling 4 weeks of paid paternity leave 

This enhanced structure gives partners the opportunity to be fully present during the earliest days with their growing family, something we believe should be accessible to all parents. The four weeks can be taken in weekly chunks, returning to work in between weeks, or as four consecutive weeks, whatever works best for our employees! 

To find out specific details about our paternity policy, please contact us: [email protected] 

Our Benefits Package 

These enhanced policies sit within a broader package of benefits that our employees can receive. Together, these form a comprehensive employment offering we’re continually refining based on employee feedback and industry benchmarking. 

#ThisIsOmnia

#ThisIsOmnia

#ThisIsOmnia

We have recently launched a new campaign called #ThisIsOmnia as we thought that people ought to know more about who we are and what we do. We truly believe that our staff are our best asset, and we want to show the world how our dedicated employees work together to provide our five core services.

We have the in-house expertise to support our clients with Geo-Environmental, Geotechnical, Acoustics, Air Quality and Ecological services.

To elaborate a little on this, Omnia is a multi-disciplinary company and we want to show both our current and future clients how we bring together a range of disciplines to create a great package of services. To convey this, in an exciting and engaging way, we have created a corporate video to sum up our five core services, told by members of our team! This can be found here.

We are also very conscious of not being a ‘faceless business’ and are very proud of our team, so we thought why not show them off?

You might have seen our ‘Meet the Omnians’ series on LinkedIn (if not, take a look at our LinkedIn now!), where we have been introducing a member of our team, week-by-week. Through asking them the same five questions listed below, we have provided a chance to get to know each Omnian  in a little more detail. We have now curated our team members all in one place – our Meet the Omnians page. If you’re nosey like the rest of us, you’ll probably want to see who you could be working with so please do take a look.

Meet the Omnians Questions:

  1. Why do you enjoy working for Omnia?
  2. What do you enjoy doing outside of work?
  3. Where’s your favourite place in the world?
  4. If you could be really good at one skill what would it be?
  5. If you could have dinner with anyone, dead or alive, who would you choose?
Completed Project in Brighton

Completed Project in Brighton

Completed Project in Brighton

We love seeing completed projects!

Our work on this complex development in Brighton included intrusive ground investigation over three phases which you can read more about on our case study page.

Here are some before and after shots of the development. The first photo is during the construction phase, while Omnia were completing additional ground investigations, working in unison with the construction workers. Omnia were able to work closely with the local authority, maintaining clear correspondence to allow construction to progress whilst works were ongoing.

Brighton PMC

The second photo shows how the development looks now. We are proud to say that our work contributed to the construction of 59 residential apartments and 6 terraced family homes. It’s great to know that our work helps to house more people – especially living by the seaside in sunny Brighton!

We look forward to working on new projects like this in the future, investigating derelict brownfield sites ahead of regeneration into new homes.

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Good News! Plan Approved!

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Good News! Plan Approved!

Recently, we were delighted to see that the plan to develop the former Debenhams store in Southsea was approved by Portsmouth City Council.

Omnia provided environmental planning services for our client, which was required as part of the pre-planning assessment (read about the services we provided here).

We are pleased to share that the project will bring an empty high street store back to life. It will see the creation of 134 residential flats, a GP surgery, dental practice and commercial units.

We’re looking forward to continued involvement on this scheme and can’t wait to see the results of what promises to be a great project, benefitting the community.

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ISO AUDIT

ISO AUDIT

ISO Audit

We are extremely proud to share the news of another successful pass following the annual surveillance audit of our ISO 9001/45001/14001 combined management system.

 It was a real team effort by everyone at Omnia in demonstrating to the UKAS accredited audit team that we continue to have all the correct systems and processes in place to enable us to continually provide the best service possible to all our clients.

We feel particularly pleased to have demonstrated continual conformance to the ISO standards during the lockdown and furlough periods, meaning that the commitment to our clients has remained unaffected and our absolute priority.

Our Quality, Health & Safety and Environment systems were scrutinised during the 3-day audit returning no significant shortfalls in meeting the ISO international standards.

Tim Mitchell, Director –

Our thanks go out to the whole team who have shown a proactive attitude to our quality system, building on the standards achieved at our 2019 accreditation.  Omnia’s ISO accreditation continue to show our ongoing commitment to build on our reputation as an outstanding Multi-disciplinary Consultancy.

RISQS Verified

RISQS Verified

We have been successfully verified on the rail railway industry supplier scheme (RISQS) for several product codes enabling us to be a supplier to the rail industry. RISQS helps supplier sell into the GB rail industry and by being verified Omnia are formally recognised as capable providers of products and services scope of works Network Rail and Durham County Council were proposing to construct a new station at Horden in Durham to assist with the progression of this scheme in terms of design and planning a range of geo-environmental services were required in order to provide information on potential contamination associated with the historic and current usage of the site area. Works included a phase 1 desk top study, with subsequent intrusive ground investigation works and interpretive reporting to assess any potential impact from contamination in soils that may be on site.  The ground investigation was undertaken by bridgeway consulting ltd on behalf of the Network Rail Building and Civils Design Team and Omnia were appointed as environmental consultants. The ground investigation was undertaken by Bridgeway Consulting Ltd on behalf of the network Rail Building and Civils Design Team and Omnia were appointed as the Environmental Consultants. Works included desk top study reporting on the site supervision, sampling, laboratory testing, monitoring and interpretative reporting.