Im receiving some long term treatment for a year - what are my rights in terms of pay

invisibility

Thank you. And yeah I'm having DBT, well known for long waiting lists. I may not even have to worry about all this if you're saying three years! I've only officially been on the waiting list for a month, the rest of the time was spend getting referred to the right team and waiting for approval. No wonder she wouldn't give me a rough start time...

Smidster

A lot depends on the job you are doing and the requirements of the business - what kind of role are you going to be doing?

As others have said there are options in the Civil Service such as compressed hours (full hours compressed into 4 days) or only working 4 days per week - you would need to speak to your manager about what might be suitable for you.

In general I would say that the CS is pretty good for this type of thing but equally you won't be able to get the time paid without making it up somewhere

sangie595

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Yes I remember the council I started at once worked around 'core hours'
and in fact as there wasn't enough seats for bums, if you were permanent then flexible working was definitely order of the day, sorry I didn't read the handbook to know how appointments were handled because I wasn't there long enough but my experience of places that like to have 'meetings about meetings' is normally quite flexible going.

Anyway if it is nearer the 6 months away then that will least give you time to settle in and put your case to them so good luck.

Good grief. You flitted through a council once and didn't even bother to find out the terms, but that makes you an expert on what they do ("have meetings about meetings") and the Civil Service (an entirely different employer!). Remind me again - you're an admin temp who does a few weeks in places???

Flexible working has an emphasis on "working". And I'd strongly recommend you don't flit through any more councils, for fear you'd find that out.

In councils your occasional appointments should be taken in your own time unless that is totally impossible, in which case you may apply for special paid leave if you wish, providing you recognise that it can be refused, in which case it's unpaid time off. You wouldn't get a day a week off paid (and quite possibly unpaid either) as a new starter. Assuming that you started, because if the first question out of your mouth is "how much sick leave can I have?" or "i want a day off work every week, and would you mind paying me?", toy will be lucky to get past the first day.

sangie595

Smidster wrote: »

A lot depends on the job you are doing and the requirements of the business - what kind of role are you going to be doing?

As others have said there are options in the Civil Service such as compressed hours (full hours compressed into 4 days) or only working 4 days per week - you would need to speak to your manager about what might be suitable for you.

In general I would say that the CS is pretty good for this type of thing but equally you won't be able to get the time paid without making it up somewhere

Ask about this! Public sector employers will try to make adjustments, but it isn't a free ride.

invisibility

I'll be an EO for the DWP.

The job advert said full time, part time and flexi options but I suspect it's a generic advert because at another interview I had for the same job they made sure to emphasise it was full time.

I would be fine with compressed hours. I'll just have to wait until I get the chance to talk to them. I haven't done my pre employment check form yet.

theoretica

You also have the option of using your holiday a day at a time for some of this, or ask about half a day holiday and half a day flexi-leave making the hours up.

invisibility

Yeah that did cross my mind, but I'll only have 15 days left after having to take 10 for my uni course, And then after I've use the 15 I guess I'd be back to square one. May as well negotiate from the very beginning. Thanks for the idea though .

jamesperrett

invisibility wrote: »

Yeah that did cross my mind, but I'll only have 15 days left after having to take 10 for my uni course,

In days gone by you could apply for study leave if your course was relevant to your job. I don't know whether this is still the case but it would be worth looking into.

invisibility

It's not relevant to my job, but thanks

FBaby

I definitely meet the definition of disabled according to that link, I don't know if that makes any difference.

Surely the OH form you filled it mention whether you suffered from any disabilities and this is linked to a condition that again, I would expect would have fallen under the ones on the list.

Your issue could be if you only declared 'treatment', but not conditions. If that's the case, you made a false statement, and that could be used to dismiss you if that was the action they wanted to take.

It doesn't help that you didn't mention during interview or after the extent of the treatment and therefore potential impact on your ability to carry out your responsibilities.

If I were you, I would get in touch with your to be boss and discuss this with them right away. It might be that they are sympathetic and indeed, happy that you work your hours over 4 days during that period, but frankly, that's more unlikely than likely.