NHS voluntary redundancy

gillyflower1964

I’ve been employed in the NHS since 1997. In 2018 I “retired and returned”, took a lump sum pension payment and returned straight back into the same job on the same benefits. At the time I had to have two weeks off and the following two weeks I could only work 16 hours each of those two weeks. After that I was back to full time and have been ever since. Seven years on I may be eligible for voluntary redundancy after a total of 28 years service in the NHS. A colleague has suggested I would only be offered redundancy covering seven years (so from 2018). I’ve looked on NHS Employers but can’t seem to find anything definitive. Is anyone able to advise please? Thank you.

spaniel101

Agenda for Change Section 16:  Redundancy Pay

https://www.nhsemployers.org/publications/tchandbook#section-16-redundancy-pay-england-

• Definition of continuous service

  16.4 “Continuous service” means full-time or part-time employment with the present or any previous NHS Employer. If with more than one NHS employer, there must not have been a break of more than a week (measured Sunday to Saturday) between employments.
• Definition of reckonable service

  16.5 “Reckonable service” for the purposes of an NHS redundancy payment, which is calculated on the basis of the service up to the date of termination of the contract, means continuous full-time or part-time employment with the present or any previous NHS employer but with the following additions:

  • where there has been a break in service of 12 months or less, the period of employment prior to the break will count as reckonable service;
  • periods of employment as a trainee with a general medical practitioner, in accordance with the provisions of the Trainee Practitioner Scheme, will count as reckonable service;
  • at employer discretion, any period or periods of employment with employers outside the NHS, where these are judged to be relevant to NHS employment, can be included in reckonable service – see Section 12 of the handbook.

  16.6 The following employment will not count as reckonable service:

  • employment that has been taken into account for the purposes of a previous redundancy, or loss of office payment by an NHS employer;
  • where the employee has previously been given pension benefits, any employment that has been taken into account for the purposes of those pension benefits.

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