NHS Terms and Conditions of Service Handbook A to Z

A

Adoption leave	Part 3 - Section 15
Accident at work (known as injury allowance in the handbook)	Part 3 – Section 22
Agile, homeworking and hybrid working	Part 5 - Section 35
Ambulance staff - Provisions for unsocial hours payments	Annex 5
Annual leave and general public holidays	Part 3 - Section 13
Allowances:
day subsistence	Part 3 – Section 18
injury	Part 3 – Section 22
motoring costs inc mileage	Annex 12
night subsistence	Part 3 – Section 18
schedule of recommended allowances (subsistence)	Annex 14
subsistence	Part 3 – Section 18
Apprentices	Annex 21

B

Banding (known as job evaluation in the handbook)	Annex 19
Bank holidays	Part 3 - Section 13
Bereavement leave (including loss of a child)	Part 3 – Section 23
Bullying and harassment	Part 5 – Section 32

C

Career break (known as employment break in the handbook)	Part 5 – Section 34
Career progression	Part 2 – Section 6
Carers (supporting)	Part 5 – Section 33
Child bereavement leave	Part 3 – Section 23
Compassionate/bereavement leave	Part 5 – Section 33
Contractual maternity pay	Part 2 – Section 2
Continuous service (known as reckonable service in the handbook)	Part 3 – Section 12

D

Day subsistence allowance	Part 3 – Section 18
Death (known as bereavement leave in the handbook)	Part 3 – Section 23
Development of professional roles	Annex 20
Dignity at work	Part 5 – Section 32

E

Education (known as training and development in the handbook)	Part 5 – Section 31
Employee relations	Part 4
Employment break	Part 5 – Section 34
Equal opportunities	Part 5
Equality and diversity (EDI)	Part 5 – Section 30
Expenses	Please see the allowances section (Section A)
Extra hours (known as overtime payments in the handbook)	Part 2 - Section 3

F

Facilities time (trade union)	Part 4 – Section 25
Flexible working	Part 5 – Section 33
Freedom to speak up	Part 5 – Section 32

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H

High cost areas (HCAS) pay	Part 2 – Section 4
High cost area (HCAS) payment zones	Annex 8
High cost area (HCAS) payment supplements	Annex 9
Holiday leave (known as annual leave in the handbook)	Part 3 - Section 13
Homeworking, agile and hybrid working	Part 5 - Section 35
Hours of the working week	Part 3 - Section 10

I

Increments (known as progression in the handbook)	Part 2 - Section 1 and Annex 23
Industrial relations (known as employee relations in the handbook)	Part 4
Injury allowance	Part 3 – Section 22

J

Job evaluation

Annex 19

K

Keeping in touch (KIT) during the maternity, adoption or shared parental leave (SPLIT) period

Part 3 – Section 15

L

Lease vehicle policies	Annex 13
Leave and pay for new parents	Part 3 – Section 15
Leave:
Adoption	Part 3 - Section 15
Annual (and general public holidays)	Part 3 – Section 13
Bereavement/compassionate leave	Part 5 – Section 33
Maternity	Part 5 – Section 33
Parental leave	Part 3 - Section 15
Paternity	Part 3 - Section 15
Shared parental leave	Part 3 - Section 15
Sick leave	Part 3 – Section 14
Leave/time off for domestic reasons, civic/public duties	Part 5 – Section 33
London weighting (known as high cost areas in the handbook)	Part 2 – Section 4

M

Maintenance	Part 7
Maintaining round the clock services	Part 2 – Section 2
Maternity pay (Contractual)	Part 2 – Section 2
Maternity leave	Part 3 – Section 15
Meals (known as day subsistence in the handbook)	Part 3 – Section 18
Mileage allowance	Annex 12
Midwifery run through (known as development of professional roles in the handbook)	Annex 20
Mutually agreed resignation schemes (MARS)	Part 3 – Section 20
Motoring costs	Annex 12
Managing sickness absences - developing local policies and procedures	Annex 26

N

Night subsistence allowance

Part 3 – Section 18

O

Occupational sick (and contractual maternity) pay	Part 2 – Section 2
Occupational maternity pay (OMP)	Part 2 – Section 2
Operating the system	Part 6
Overtime payments	Part 2 - Section 3
On-call and other extended service cover	Annex 4
Out of hours (Ambulance staff)	Annex 5

P

Paternity leave	Part 3 - Section 15
Parental leave / parenting leave	Part 5 – Section 33
Partnership	Part 1
Pay	Part 2
spines	Part 2 - Section 1 and Annex 2
occupational sick pay	Part 2 – Section 2
progression	Part 2 - Section 1 and Annex 23
maternity pay (contractual)	Part 2 – Section 2
step dates	Part 2 - Section 1
pay on promotion	Part 2 - Section 1
pay on promotion – Unsocial hours and recruitment and retention premia (RRP)	Part 2 - Section 1
pay points	Part 2 - Section 1 and Annex 2
High Cost Areas (HCAS)	Part 5 – Section 35
redundancy	Part 3 – Section 16
trainees (pay and banding)	Annex 21
unsociable hours	Part 2 – Section 2
Principles	Part 1
Progression	Part 2 – Section 6
Promotion and Personal Development Plans (PDP)	Part 2 – Section 6
Professional roles development	Annex 20
Public holidays (general)	Part 3 – Section 13

Q

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R

Raising concerns (whistleblowing)	Part 3 – Section 21
Recruitment and retention premia (RRP)	Part 2 – Section 5
Recruitment and retention premia (RRP) local	Annex 10
Reckonable service	Part 3 – Section 12
Redundancy pay	Part 3 – Section 16
Reimbursement of travel costs	Part 3 – Section 17
Recruitment, promotion and staff development	Part 5 – Section 31
Re-earnable pay points	Part 2 - Section 1

S

Salary sacrifice	Annex 13
Scales / spines (pay)	Part 2 - Section 1 and Annex 2
Sick (occupational)	Part 2 – Section 2
Sickness absence / sick leave	Part 3 – Section 14
Sickness absences - developing local policies and procedures	Annex 26
Shared parental leave	Part 3 – Section 15
Subsistence allowances	Part 3 – Section 18
Subsistence allowances - Schedule of recommended allowances	Annex 14
Supporting carers	Part 5 – Section 33

T

Terms and conditions of service	Part 3
Travel costs (reimbursement)	Part 3 – Section 17
Time off and facilities for trade union representatives	Part 4 – Section 25
Training and development	Part 5 – Section 31
Trainees - arrangements for pay and banding	Annex 21

U

Unsocial hours (USH) payment

Part 2 – Section 2

V

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W

Whistleblowing (Raising concerns/freedom to speak up)	Part 3 – Section 21
Working time regulations	Part 4 – Section 27
Working or providing emergency cover outside normal hours	Annex 4

X

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Y

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Z

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