Join the #monsterverse
We live a life-first culture
Our team work whenever, however and wherever they like. We’re an enormous fan of freedom in the workplace, so there are only three rules:
- Write With Bite (so we do great work and continue to build our reputation)
- Work for your core hours every day, and no more [unless you're super keen for paid overtime], being as billable as you can be (so we get paid)
- Keep our clients happy (so we continue to get paid)
We're 100% remote. We'll never have an office. We travel the country throughout the year for fun, joint-working meetups.
Meet the monsters
Our perks and benefits
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🌎 Please note that benefits may vary for those working outside of the United Kingdom
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✨ Flexible, remote-working team
2nd in the GPTW's UK's Best Workplaces for Wellbeing (2023)
2nd in the GPTW's UK's Best Workplaces for Women (2022)
2nd most flexible consultancy/agency (Flexa 2022)
4th most flexible company worldwide (Flexa Top 50 Awards 2021)
5th most flexible company worldwide (Flexa 100 2022)
6th in the GPTW's UK's Best Workplaces for Women (2023)
6th most flexible emerging company (Flexa 100 2023)
11th in the GPTW's UK's Best Workplaces for Wellbeing (2022)
14th in the GPTW's UK's Best Workplaces (2023)
76th in the GPTW's UK's Best Workplaces (2022)
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📆 Up to 44 days annual leave
25 days of standard annual leave
8 bank holidays
1 birthday day off
Up to 5 days for long service (starting after 2 years)
The option to buy a further 5 days each year
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🩺 Private health insurance
Enhanced health insurance with Vitality (fully paid by us)
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🍏 Quarterly wellbeing gifts
Because you deserve it
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🕥 Paid overtime
Only if you want to, and at higher rates than regular pay
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😴 Paid sick leave
And paid special leave and carer's leave too
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🏦 Pension
Starts after your probation
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👶 Enhanced maternity/paternity pay
12 weeks full pay for maternity and 4 weeks full pay for paternity
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🪜 Career progression and personal development
We’ve developed clear core competencies for every role and each member of the team has the opportunity to work on an internal initiative in line with their skills and interests
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🧠 Dedicated training budgets
For individual training/self-development and team training
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💜 Mentoring/shadowing/training programme
6-week mentoring/shadowing and 6-week medical writing fundamentals training for associates and medical writers
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📈 Company share options
Every team member has share options because everyone deserves to benefit from our success – additional share options set aside for key people in key positions
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🪙 Financial coaching
Ran by our friends at Octopus Money Coach
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🥳 Regular team socials and joint-working days
Things like comedy nights, summer BBQs, Christmas parties and fun togetherness days in various locations around the UK
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🧳 Week-long monster mash
A time for the team to kick back, reflect, recoup and have some fun
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🎮 *NEW* Meta Quest 2 VR headset
So you can connect with us for our weekly virtual meetings, socials and collaboration sessions
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😎 Company-branded schwag
Personalised monster character and the obvious work essentials: laptop, monitor, laptop bag, keyboard, mouse and MS 365
Word from the top
It started with my own situation. I had a 2-year-old and a heavily pregnant wife. Sitting in traffic on the daily made me miserable and was seriously affecting my mental health. I’d get to work and have already had enough.
So, I thought I’d ask my employer if I could work from home.
It went like this.
Me: “Can I work from home a few days a week?”
Manager: “No”
Me: “Why not?”
Manager: “Because you learn more in the office”
So, I thought to myself: Screw this!
Life’s too short to be worrying about deadlines, timelines, stressful clients when you just want to be at home to do bathtime or see your kids take their first steps. Why should we not put our personal lives before our working lives? If we build our lives around our friends, families, ambitions and hobbies then we can feel happier and more fulfilled. And in turn this is going to make you work harder, smile more and build a more positive company culture all round. I’ve now built the company I wished existed when I was a writer.
From our people
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Joining Word Monster was hands down the best career decision I’ve ever made. The variety of clients and projects has supercharged my medical writing skills and done wonders for my confidence. Though the role has pushed me out of my comfort zone, I’ve never felt anything but completely supported by my fellow monsters. Everyone looks out for each other and the banter in the team Skype chat is by far my favourite part of the role. If you’re on the fence about whether to apply, just do it! I promise we won’t bite.
Laura
Principal Medical Writer
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Word Monster stands by what they say – life first. It is a nurturing and supportive environment filled with a family of experience medical writers who kick a$% at writing with bite. It truly is the best place to work.
Emma
Senior Medical Writer | SEO Lead
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Working for Word Monster has been a fantastic experience right from the start. Not only is the team amazing, but there's so much room for growth and education here. Every day is something different and having the flexibility to work remotely has been an absolute blessing!
Kalleigh
Marketing Manager
There are two main ways that you can work with us:
