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Welcome to VERCIDA website.
Skip to main contentSSE Plc are a real Living Wage and Fair Tax Mark accredited company and employ 12,000 people across the UK and Ireland.
We believe that greater diversity brings broader debate, which leads to better decisions and ultimately better business delivery.
That’s why we actively seek different views and perspectives from a broad range of people across SSE. We’re serious about promoting inclusion and diversity and have a well-defined strategy to encourage difference coming into, staying on and progressing up within SSE.
We measure our progress against the Equal Approach Return on Inclusion tool and latest results show that we have reached Champion level, demonstrating the success of our strategy and the robustness of the underlying processes that we have put in place.
Our pledges and commitments:
My name is Ayesha Masood, I have been with SSE for almost 8 years. I started as a Document controller in renewables and now work in Transmission as a...
We believe in creating a work culture where everyone feels that they belong. Our aim is to promote and develop a diverse and inclusive culture for LGB...
SSE has a Working Parents Community group with a growing member base across the company, Hear from Hannah who leads the group: "My name is Hannah Cuta...
The Armed Forces Community was launched in November 2020 on the anniversary of SSE signing the Armed Forces Covenant. We currently have 70 members wh...
SSE have a great employee benefit available to all UK employees for those experiencing either anxiety, depression and stress (ADS) and/or musculoskel...
The taking care of ourselves and each other belonging group is made up of colleagues from across all areas of SSE who have come together because they...
The Disability, Neurodiversity and Chronic Health group is the newest member of the belonging communities, to date we have focused on diabetes and cer...
We implemented our Working Differently initiative a couple of years ago, which enables our workforce to use technology and agile working to maintain a...
In 2019 for the first time we extended our Opportunities to Retrain / Reskill programmes into the external market. For a number of years we have only...
Every SSE employee is encouraged to use their “Be the Difference” volunteering day to dedicate their time to projects and initiatives that matter to t...
As well as ensuring our people are treated fairly, we are committed to providing a substantial amount of revenue to Community Investment Funds. Since...
SSE is a signatory of the Social Mobility Pledge, which is a cross-party campaign to improve social mobility in the UK. This is closely aligned to a...
We were the first FTSE 100 company to publish our gender pay gap reporting back in 2016. We are committed to providing detailed disclosure around gen...
We know that balancing work and a busy family life can be difficult. That’s why we pride ourselves on being a family friendly employer. In addition to...
Are you ready to kickstart your career with an SSE Apprenticeship or Trainee Engineering Programme? Earn while you learn and help us power change. ...
STEM Returners Scheme at SSE with jobs being offered across our Renewables, Transmission, and Distribution businesses, whilst a separate programme ru...
SSE is committed to providing our employees with the required specialist equipment or adjustments to carry out their roles whether this be desk rise...
Right now, there’s a gap in female talent in business leadership. Women are underrepresented in senior roles in just about every ind...
We have ambitious plans for the future and need more talented and skilled people to join us on our mission to provide the energy needed today while building a better world of energy for tomorrow. We offer diverse career opportunities across the UK and Ireland, agile working and excellent benefits.
Whether you spend your day on a wind farm, engaging directly with customers, supporting our power network infrastructure or in the hustle and bustle of one of our major offices, we like to think life at SSE is pretty good. We take care of our people, our customers and the communities we serve.
We take a strategic approach to creating an inclusive workforce. Our culture encourages everyone to be themselves – no matter what their background is. And no matter what, safety is at the heart of everything we do, and we live by the mantra ‘if it’s not safe, we don’t do it’.
“We believe our employees at SSE have the power to make a change and build a better world of energy for future generations. A world where we believe innovative solutions to climate change requires diverse perspectives, different experiences and new skills to help us reach net zero. That’s why our plans to increase diversity and to create a workplace where the principles of equality, fairness, diversity and inclusion are at the heart of everything we do are so important.”
Rosie Macrae - Inclusion, Education & Employability Manager
List of all the benefits that SSE are offering their employees. Benefits may vary depending on role, location and length of service.
Listen to James talk about his career journey with SSE and the support he has received in his career and with his education.
— James Archer, Business Change Manager
Listen to Rachel talk about her career in Data Science and what she enjoys about working at SSE.
— Rachel Hassall, Senior Data Scientist for Distributed Energy
Listen to Mark talk about his career at SSE after leaving the military.
— Mark Beaman, Performance Manager
Hear Calum talk about the SSE Graduate scheme and his thoughts on the people and culture at SSE.
— Calum Craig, Graduate Commercial Analyst
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