Maintaining round the clock services
Supporting staff who work evenings, at night, weekends and on general public holidays
1. The NHS delivers patient services around the clock. Where staff are required to work to cover services in the evening, at night, over weekends and on general public holidays the NHS Staff Council has agreed that percentage enhancements should be paid. Section 34 Flexible Working Arrangements and Section 35 Balancing Work and Personal Life set out the principles underlying this.
2. This section is effective from 1 April 2008. It replaces paragraphs 2.1 to 2.12 of the previous agreement. It applies to all staff on Agenda for Change terms and conditions of service.
3. The pay of staff working evenings, nights or weekends on or after
1 April 2008 will be worked out in line with paragraphs 4 to 30 below. The incremental dates of staff paid under these arrangements will not change.
4. In recognition of the unique arrangements that apply in the former Early Implementer sites these organisations will be able to continue to use the Agenda for Change prototype system (Annexes E and F) for the first 12 months of operation of the new system. This will give these organisations time to collect the data needed to make comparisons between the old and new systems. In years two and three these organisations will move to the new system using Tables 21 and 22 in Annex X or by using their own arrangements, in partnership, for transferring staff from the Agenda for Change payment system to the new system of payments, subject to this being completed by 1 April 2011.
5. This agreement will not apply to ambulance staff who are employed by ambulance organisations in England and Northern Ireland. These are staff who would have been subject to the provisions of the Ambulance Whitley Council had they been employed on Whitley contracts before Agenda for Change. They will continue to receive unsocial hours payments in accordance with Annex E and Annex F. All other staff in ambulance organisations in England and Northern Ireland will move to the system in Annexes E and F by 1 April 2011. The arrangements will be worked out in partnership in ambulance organisations.
6. The arrangements which will apply to ambulance staff in Scotland and Wales will be discussed and agreed in partnership in each country.
What does this mean ?
Supporting staff who work evenings, at night, weekends and on general public holidays
1. The NHS delivers patient services around the clock. Where staff are required to work to cover services in the evening, at night, over weekends and on general public holidays the NHS Staff Council has agreed that percentage enhancements should be paid. Section 34 Flexible Working Arrangements and Section 35 Balancing Work and Personal Life set out the principles underlying this.
2. This section is effective from 1 April 2008. It replaces paragraphs 2.1 to 2.12 of the previous agreement. It applies to all staff on Agenda for Change terms and conditions of service.
3. The pay of staff working evenings, nights or weekends on or after
1 April 2008 will be worked out in line with paragraphs 4 to 30 below. The incremental dates of staff paid under these arrangements will not change.
4. In recognition of the unique arrangements that apply in the former Early Implementer sites these organisations will be able to continue to use the Agenda for Change prototype system (Annexes E and F) for the first 12 months of operation of the new system. This will give these organisations time to collect the data needed to make comparisons between the old and new systems. In years two and three these organisations will move to the new system using Tables 21 and 22 in Annex X or by using their own arrangements, in partnership, for transferring staff from the Agenda for Change payment system to the new system of payments, subject to this being completed by 1 April 2011.
5. This agreement will not apply to ambulance staff who are employed by ambulance organisations in England and Northern Ireland. These are staff who would have been subject to the provisions of the Ambulance Whitley Council had they been employed on Whitley contracts before Agenda for Change. They will continue to receive unsocial hours payments in accordance with Annex E and Annex F. All other staff in ambulance organisations in England and Northern Ireland will move to the system in Annexes E and F by 1 April 2011. The arrangements will be worked out in partnership in ambulance organisations.
6. The arrangements which will apply to ambulance staff in Scotland and Wales will be discussed and agreed in partnership in each country.
What does this mean ?
Ash nazg durbatulk, ash nazg gimbatul, ash nazg thrakatulk, agh burzum-ishi krimpatul.
