Why are we changing how we employ doctors and dentists in training?

2. Why are we changing how we employ doctors and dentists in training? • What are the lead employer arrangements? • Who are the lead employers? • How is this being implemented? • What is the impact? • How can I find out more? • Purpose of Presentation

3. In October 2015 the NHSS Chief Executives received a report from Scottish Association of Medical Directors / HR Directors on NHS Scotland Medical Workforce and the decision to fast track action to enhance the employment and training experience for DDiT was taken with the undernoted key objectives: • Provide DDiT with optimum continuity of employment and positive employment experience across NHSS. • Ensure consistent application of employment policies for DDiT across NHSS. • Minimise duplication or unnecessary processes in “on-boarding” throughout rotations for clinical placements. • Promote continuity and consistency in Payroll arrangements. • Ensure access to appropriate and high quality training experiences. • Effective information sharing and engagement between NHS Boards and NES in the management of performance and training of DDiT. A Core Steering Group was established to progress fast tracking of action in support of the Chief Executive’s decision. • Mandate from NHSS Chief Executives

4. Simplified, standardised and shared medical staffing recruitment/ employment service/ employee relations practice improving the quality and efficiency of services to managers and other “customers” of Human Resources • Enhances the employment experience of trainees during their employment • Improves governance of medical staffing related services and activities • Enhances local efficiencies and levels of productivity and efficiency • Maximises opportunities which are available through other systems • Improves resilience and sustainability of medical staffing services • Delivers consistency of Policy application - Lead Employer policies will be followed pending development of Once for Scotland policies • Main Aims of Lead Employer Model

5. NES Scotland Deanery • Single employer for duration of each programme • Regions will agree employer model for regional programmes and host a share of national programmes • All Boards will beplacement Boards • NES oversees training and placements - as now • Single contracts, policies and standardisedprocesses • Agreed information sharing • There will be 4 employing Boards across NHS Scotland

7. What is an employing Board? • A lead employer is the NHS Board that will hold the contract of employment and deliver the payroll function for a trainee for the duration of the programme of training. The trainee may be on placement in a different placement Board but the contract of employment and payroll will remain with the employing Board. • 4 employing Boards: • NHS Grampian • NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde • NHS Lothian • NHS Education for Scotland • Delivering the model: Employing Boards

8. Employing Board for all foundation, core and specialty trainees (excluding GPSTs): • In the North Region of Scotland, this encompasses NHS Highland, NHS Orkney, NHS Shetland, NHS Western Isles, NHS Tayside and NHS Grampian. • Also for doctors in training on the following national programmes: • Child and Adolescent Psychiatry • Old Age Psychiatry • Intellectual Disability Psychiatry • Medical Psychotherapy • Medical Ophthalmology • Also for those on the following East/ North regional programmes:  • Urology • ENT • East Medical Microbiology. • NHS Grampian

9. Employing Board for all foundation, core and specialty trainees (excluding GPSTs): • In the West Region of Scotland, this encompasses NHS Ayrshire and Arran, NHS Dumfries and Galloway, NHS Forth Valley, NHS Lanarkshire, National Waiting Times Centre and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. •  Also for doctors in training on the following national programmes  • Clinical Neurophysiology (All Scotland) • Paediatric and Perinatal Pathology • Paediatric Cardiology • Neurosurgery – National • Neurology • Paediatric Surgery • Oral and Maxillo-facial Surgery • Palliative Medicine – West • Chemical, Infectious Diseases • Medical Virology • Clinical Oncology • Medical Oncology • Broad Based Training • NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde

10. Employing Board for all foundation, core and specialty trainees (excluding GPSTs): • In the East Region of Scotland, this encompasses NHS Borders, NHS Fife and NHS Lothian. • Also for doctors on training on the following national programmes: • Diagnostic Neuropathology • Plastic Surgery • Forensic Histopathology • Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics • Community and Sexual and Reproductive Health • Cardio-thoracic Surgery • Genito-urinary Medicine • Vascular Surgery • Rehabilitation Medicine • Forensic Psychiatry • Clinical Genetics • On the following East/ North regional programme: • Core Surgical Training • NHS Lothian

11. Employing Board for all trainees on: • General Practice Specialty Training programmes • This includes all trainees on placements in General Practices and in hospital placements in NHS Highland, NHS Orkney, NHS Shetland, NHS Western Isles, NHS Tayside, NHS Grampian, NHS Borders, NHS Fife, NHS Lothian, NHS Ayrshire and Arran, NHS Dumfries and Galloway, NHS Forth Valley, NHS Lanarkshire and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. •  Also for doctors in training on the following national programmes: • Public Health • Occupational Medicine • NHS Education for Scotland

12. What is a placement Board? • A placement Board is the Party providing a training placement to the Doctor in Training (who is not their employer). Placement boards will be responsible for the day to day management of the trainees. • The placement Board retains clinical governance responsibility as the trainees are engaged in the provision of clinical care to patients of the placement Board. • NHS Education for Scotland, NHS Highland, NHS Orkney, NHS Shetland, NHS Western Isles, NHS Tayside, NHS Grampian, NHS Borders, NHS Fife, NHS Lothian, NHS Ayrshire and Arran, NHS Dumfries and Galloway, NHS Forth Valley, NHS Lanarkshire, National Waiting Times Centre and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde will all be placement Boards. • Some Boards may be both an employing Board and a placement Board. • Placement Board

13. Current Doctors in Training - current doctors in training will be onboarded for August 2018 by the lead employer for their current programme of training and will remain with that lead employer for the duration of that programme of training. This will mean a reduction in repetitive on and off boarding as current trainees rotate through placements. There will be one contract of employment for the duration of the training programme, with amendments issued for each rotation to a new placement (Placement Detail letters). • Military/ Academic/ Industry employed trainees: as these trainees are not an employee of a NHS Board employment arrangements will not be impacted by the lead employer arrangements. • Out of Programme: if a trainee is out of programme and not currently under a contract of employment, on return to a training programme, the employment contract will be issued under the new arrangements. • Current trainees on long term sickness absence: if a trainee is currently off long term sick or becomes and remains sick at 1st August, they will be advised to contact the current employer to discuss the lead employer arrangements in order to ensure there is no impact on statutory or occupational payments they may be in receipt of, or entitled to and to ensure compliance with current guidance. • Current trainees on maternity leave now/ future: If a trainee is currently on Maternity leave or not currently on Maternity leave but will have commenced leave prior to 1 August 2018 they will be advised to contact the current employer to discuss the lead employer arrangements in order to ensure there is no impact on statutory or occupational payments they may be in receipt of, or entitled to and to ensure compliance with current guidance. • Current and Future Dental trainees– current dentists in training will be transitioned to the lead employer arrangements from August 2019. Further detail will be developed on how the lead employer arrangements will apply to dental trainees. Future Trainees will be employed by a lead employer for the duration of each training programme. There will be one contract of employment for the duration of the training programme, with amendments issued for each rotation to a new placement (Placement Detail letters). • Impact on DDiTs

14. Benefits and how we can measure them?

15. An application on the Turas platform • It will support implementation of the lead employer arrangements by providing an interface between existing systems (e.g. Turas TPM, e:ESS) to enable employment and trainee information to be easily shared between lead employers, placement Boards and doctors in training. • Initial functionality will support the completion of pre employment checks from April 2018 for all those moving to the lead employer arrangements from August 2018 and enable them to receive accurate payment in August. • If the trainees do not get paid properly the lead employer model will be considered a failure from the outset. • Turas People

16. Timeline

17. Contacts: Please also see the Hub for more information on the lead employer arrangements. We will continue to update the Hub with additional information. http://hub.nes.digital/ • Further Information