happy Careers
When you work for Happy, you become part of our greatest asset: our people. We know that by treating you with excellence, we will receive excellent work in return.
On this page, you can find:
What it's like to work for Happy
Find out about our culture, values and why our people enjoy working here.
Our benefits
We offer a host of great benefits to our people after passing probation.
Sign up to our mailing list
Currently we have no vacancies – sign up for our Jobs list so you’re the first to hear when we are recruiting (just scroll down to the bottom of this page for the sign up form).
What's it like to work for Happy?
Imagine this:
- Working for a company based around the principle that ‘people work best when they feel good about themselves’
- A workplace where, instead of levels of approval, people are trusted to make the key decisions for themselves
- Managers who’ll trust you to work out your own balance of life and work
- A blame-free culture where mistakes are celebrated
Wouldn’t you want to work there?
Happy has been recognised for the quality of training that we provide, but what we are most well-known for is our culture and values.
Happy was recognised as 13th in the 2024 UK's Best Workplaces™ for Small Businesses and 1st in the 2024 UK's Best Workplaces for Women™, based on our culture and values. Happy has also been listed as one of the Sunday Times 2024 Best Places to Work, and Highly Commended on the Best Places to Work for Wellbeing Spotlight.
Our departments
There are four distinct teams at Happy:
- Happy Business Support: These people help our business run smoothly. They include our Chief Happiness Officer (our CEO), our Group Managing Director, our Finance Manager, our Marketing Manager, our Café Co-ordinator and our Technical Liaison Officers.
- Happy People: These people manage our leadership and personal development training business stream. They include a Business Stream Head, Account Managers and Facilitators and a Learning Organisation Specialist.
- Happy Apprenticeships: these people manage our leadership and management, and web development apprenticeships business stream. They include a Business Stream Head, Account Managers and Facilitators.
- Happy Computers: these people manage our IT training business stream. They include a Business Stream Head, Account Managers and Trainers.
Happy is a Disability Confident Committed Employer
As a Disability Confident Committed Employer, we have committed to:
- ensure 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.
Just some of the ways that we have supported our staff are:
- We have made adjustments at previous interviews – like giving more time for exercise completion
- We have successfully supported staff with Access to work applications and assessments, securing funding for deaf interpreters, travel allowances for taxis, a new desk etc
- In our sickness policy we count any illness due to a disability as only ‘one instance’ in a calendar year, so sickness levels aren’t skewed highly
- When we organise Happy days and our seasonal party, we ensure that everyone can participate in the group activities, and will pay for taxis to take staff from one place to another if needed
- We offer flexibility of hours and working patterns, plus hybrid working to support all staff with good health and well being
- Our Mentors and Multipliers (what we call our people managers) actively support any adjustments needed for staff – we encourage discussions around workload, the way we work, working to strengths and training needed etc
- All new staff are assigned a buddy to provided added support through the first three months of induction and beyond
You can see our certificate here.
Learn more about Disability Confident on the gov.uk website.
About Happy's culture
On these pages, you can learn how we put our values into practice and what it's like to work at Happy through videos, quotes from our people, and photos.
Appraisals and recognition
Find out about our Happy@Happy snapshot form, how we complete our 360' feedback, and how we recognise our people.
Decision-making
Happy has been recognised as one of the most democratic workplaces in the world. Find out more about our decision-making process and how we use Pre-Approval.
Working to strengths
All new members of staff take the Clifton Strengths Assessment so we can find out what their top five strengths are. Here's how we use this information in our day-to-day work and in our organisation chart.
Celebrating mistakes and cultivating innovation
Innovation is at the heart of Happy, and we encourage continuous improvement across the organisation. Here's what this looks like in practice.
The 4 day week
With our four-day working week, full-time staff work for 80% of their hours for 100% of their salary, as long as they are 100% as productive (after passing probation). Here's more detail about how it works and what our people think about it.
How to succeed as a facilitator or trainer
Happy does training and facilitation differently to many other providers. To succeed, you will need to learn how to run your sessions in our interactive style. Here's more about what we expect and watch some example sessions here.
Our Benefits
We offer a host of benefits to our people (after passing probation), including:
- 4 day working week for full-time staff — Work 32 hours per week and be paid for 37.5 hours, as long as you are just as productive
- Profit-related pay to staff and to charity — 20% of our profit is distributed evenly between all staff and 4% of our profit is donated to charities (charities chosen by staff)
- Monthly excellence bonus — approximately £500 per year
- Ability to work from home — agreed with your team and dependent on role
- 22 days of holiday allowance — increased by 1 day per year of service (up to 30 days)
- Birthday off each year — on top of your annual leave entitlement, for low sickness record
- Paid sabbaticals — recognising long service with 4 weeks paid sabbaticals after 6 and 12 years, and 8 weeks after 20 years of service
Plus much more.
The recruitment process
Wanting to apply for a job at Happy? Find out what to consider before completing an application form, and what to expect throughout the process (whether or not your application is successful).
Current Vacancies
Does this sound like a company you'd be proud to work for?
Currently we have no vacancies – please sign up for the Jobs list so you’re the first to hear when we are next recruiting for members of the team.
We will only contact you regarding jobs. You will not receive any other emails (unless you have already signed up elsewhere).
