We are a UK specialist bank. Our lending products include mortgages for landlords and loans for business customers.

Find out how we use our expertise to help customers in a range of specialist markets.

Our strategy is to build a specialist bank for our customers, which delivers sustainable growth and shareholder returns through a low risk and robust model.

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2020 Annual Report and Accounts

Find out more about our business and how it has developed and performed during an unprecedented year.

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Sustainability

Sustainability is central to our long-term success and it influences every aspect of our business

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Race at Work Charter

As part of Paragon’s ongoing commitment to ensuring that we are tackling barriers that ethnic minority groups face in recruitment and progression, we have signed up to Business in the Community’s Race at Work Charter.

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News

Keep up-to-date with the latest new releases and insights from across our business.

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Development finance Q&A

Tailoring support for smaller housebuilders, whilst aiding their growth.

Careers

We understand how important our employees are to the business and, in recognition of this, we provide a variety of excellent reasons to work for us.

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Looking for an internship?

Learn how a Paragon internship can help you gain work experience in your chosen field.

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Health and safety

We are committed to providing a safe and healthy working environment for all our employees and aim to comply with all applicable health and safety legal requirements, and to ensure that best practice management standards are implemented and maintained across all operations.

Framework and support

To support the health and safety of our employees, as well as contractors and visitors to our premises, and those impacted by our operations in public areas, we provide and maintain:

information, instruction and supervision on health and safety matters to empower people to take ownership of their responsibility for a healthy and safe environment, as well as encouraging them to report any concerns
an Occupational Health and Safety Management System which includes a health and safety policy, risk assessments, performance evaluation and regular health and safety management meetings monitoring performance, objectives and targets
a dedicated Health and Safety Manager who reports, ultimately, to the Chief Operating Officer, the Executive Committee member responsible
trained fire marshals, first aiders and other qualified personnel in all our offices, as well as defibrillator machines at all sites

ISO certified

Our Group Occupational Health and Safety Management System (OHSMS) is certified to ISO45001:2018 and compliance is audited bi-annually by a UKAS accredited auditor.

SFS, who support local authority customers with vehicle hire and fleet maintenance, has their own health and safety manager and OHSMS. The operation is currently certificated to BS:18001 and intends to migrate to ISO45001:2018 during its next compliance audit cycle.

Performance indicators

We classify health and safety incidents as operational risk incidents under our risk management system and monitor them through the operational risk management system and the Operational Risk Committee. In the 12 months to 30 September 2020:

accidents and incidents remained at a low level
11 incidents (2019: 19) were reported, all of a minor nature with no lost time
1 lost time incident (2019: 0) was reported at SFS under the Reporting of Incidents, Disease and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013
there were no prosecutions or any enforcement action from visits by the authorities for non-compliance in respect of health and safety matters