FLEXIBLE WORKER REGISTRATION AGREEMENT

In this registration agreement "Trust," means any NHS organisation to whom you are provided by NHSP when you agree to carry out an Assignment (as defined in paragraph 2 below) under these terms.

This registration agreement sets out the terms of your registration as an NHSP flexible worker and forms the terms of your employment with NHSP for the period of any Assignment only. It is the intention of NHSP and you that outside any agreed Assignment there is no contract of employment between the parties.

1. Identity of Employer and Nature of Relationship

2. Meaning of "Assignment"

3. Term

4. Job Role, Description and Right to Work

5. Place of Work

6. Accountability

On a day-to-day basis, you will be accountable to a designated Manager where you are undertaking the Assignment.

7. Continuous Employment

8. Pay and Deductions from Pay

9. Hours of Work

Under this paragraph we are entitled without notice or payment in lieu of notice, to cancel your current Assignment, and any further Assignments if we consider that you are accepting Assignments that cause you to work excessive hours. This is to ensure that our commitment to provide safe patient/client care is not compromised.

In the event that you are not permitted to complete an Assignment, you will receive payment up until the point during the Assignment at which the Assignment was cancelled (rounded up to the nearest half hour) and you will not receive any further payment for the remainder of that Assignment, or any other Assignments you may have booked but were unable to work due to the cancellation.

10. Annual Leave/Holiday Pay

11. Maternity, Paternity, Adoption and Parental Leave and Pay

Details are available from NHSP.

12. Pension Scheme

13. Absence due to Sickness

14. Medical Fitness

NHSP reserves the right to require you to attend a medical examination carried out by an occupational health practitioner and/or a medical practitioner nominated by it in order to assess your fitness to work. The outcome of any medical examination will be disclosed to NHSP. Failure to attend such medical examination may result in NHSP not offering you any further Assignments.

15. Smoking Policy

Smoking is prohibited on all premises that you work at except in designated areas. This includes e-cigarettes.

16. Provision of Training

It is your responsibility to ensure that you maintain and develop your competencies in the fields in which you practice. You have an ongoing duty to undertake learning and development activities, including mandatory training, refresher activities, for the purposes of your continuing professional development. You acknowledge that NHSP reserves the right to refuse to offer any Assignment to you or to cancel an Assignment which has been offered to you if it considers it necessary for you to undertake learning and development activities to ensure that you can effectively and safely carry out your duties.

17. Concerns and Conduct Procedures

18. Restriction from carrying out Assignments

about your suspension.

19. Co-operation with Procedures

You may from time to time be witness to alleged acts or omissions which may be the subject of a complaints investigation, disciplinary, grievance or legal or other procedures by NHSP or a Trust. In any such instance you agree that you will co-operate with any investigating officer or other relevant person or body in dealing with such procedures including appearing as a witness.

20. Rehabilitation of Offenders

21. Health and Safety

22. Offering Assignments & Location

NHSP reserves the right to only offer an Assignment to you via NHSP's online booking system and in accordance with this registration agreement. If you refuse an Assignment offered to you as a flexible worker which is then sought to be filled by contacting an employment agency, NHSP reserves the right to specify that you are not provided by the agency to fulfil that Assignment. NHSP also reserves the right to request that you also do not work in that or any other Assignment offered to NHSP.

23. Confidentiality

24. Trade Union Membership

You have the right to choose to belong or not to belong to an independent trade union. There are no collective agreements applicable to this registration agreement.

25. Professional Qualification

26. Personal particulars

27. Engagement/Employment with other providers

28. Loss of Personal Effects

Whilst working for NHSP you are advised that no liability can be accepted for any loss or damage to personal property whilst on any NHSP or Trust location. You are advised to provide your own insurance cover.

29. Uniforms

30. Data Protection

31. Equal opportunities

NHSP and the Trust to whom you may be provided to carry out an Assignment are committed to equal opportunities. You are therefore required to comply with the Equality and Diversity and/or Dignity at Work policies of the Trust(s) to whom you are assigned. In the event that you fail to comply with the relevant policies and/or commit an act of discrimination and/or harassment, during the period of any Assignment, on the basis of an individual's gender (including gender reassignment), race, nationality, ethnic or national origin, disability, religion, beliefs, sexual orientation or age, you will be subject to disciplinary procedures and disciplinary action may be taken against you.

32. General Conditions

33. Changes in Terms

Your terms and conditions of engagement are governed by this registration agreement. We reserve the right to amend or vary your terms of engagement from time to time and shall notify you of such amendments or variation by posting them on the NHSP intranet if the change is minor. You will be given appropriate notice of material changes to your terms of engagement and appropriate consultation will take place.

34. Eligibility to work

35. Repayment of Initial Costs