NHS redeployment

[Deleted User]

Hi everyone 
I was hoping someone could offer me some advice please. I currently work as a specialist nurse within the NHS. Over the last 13 weeks I have been redeployed to a ward throughout covid19, which was understandable and I am fully aware that the trust can implement this.
I am now been told that my department is going through some work at the moment, and it may be months by the time the department is open again(not covid related).
I am finding it hard to understand how I am being expected to carry on working on the ward(redeployed)until this time, when it is not my contracted employment, when the reason for me staying is now not covid related.
Can someone please offer me some advise.
Thanks

Comms69

You're employed as a nurse by a trust - I cant see anything unreasonable about being deployed to an equivalent role in a different team

sharpe106

Your normal work place is currently closed so you can't work there, what do you think they should do ?

You might be a specialist nurse but I am sure your contract does not specifically say you will only work in your department and nowhere else except in times of national emergencies.

Not quite sure what advice you are after.  

[Deleted User]

Hi
I have happily worked throughout the national emergency for 13 weeks taking care of covid patients. I am now been told that as of the 30th June nurses within the trust will not be required for redeployment.
My department is not currently open, and I am now wanting to know where I stand?

Comms69

wantingadvice2020 said:

Hi
I have happily worked throughout the national emergency for 13 weeks taking care of covid patients. I am now been told that as of the 30th June nurses within the trust will not be required for redeployment.
My department is not currently open, and I am now wanting to know where I stand?

Presumably where your employer tells you to?

sharpe106

Not for redeployment for covid reasons, but still for normal reasons, what are you expecting them to do whilst your department is shut? carry on paying you to drink tea in the staff room?

Andy_L

Your contract almost certainly says "other reasonable duties as required" so, as a nurse, whilst they probably couldn't make you go and work in HR they can get you do to any other nurse role for which you are suitable qualified/experienced 

[Deleted User]

Sharpe106.....to post a comment about nurses drinking tea in a staff room, after all NHS staff have sacrificed "everything" for the people of the UK, over the last 3 months!!
You should should hang your head in shame, for the lack of respect you have shown in that comment.

I was hoping for some HR advice from within the NHS regarding covid redeployment policies, not general narrow minded comments!

sharpe106

I was not suggesting that is what nurses do, I was suggesting is that what you wanted to do, whilst your department was shut. As you seem to want to go back to your department, that is currently shut. 

[Deleted User]

Sharpe106....it sounded that way, and please do not suggest "that is what I want to do"
You know nothing about me, and that further comment in itself is disrespectful.

sharpe106

If there was enough work for you to do in the background whilst the department was shut then they would have moved you back. There obviously is not so they have left you where you are. 

So I don't understand why you would want to go back to a department that does not currently need you. So the only reason a person would want to go back is if they wanted to do no work. As what else would they be doing? That was my point. 

If i was working in a different department and my area was closed and did not need me I would not have even though about going back until the area re-opened or was told otherwise.