Flexible working can help us all make the NHS work better. Flexible roles make it easier to attract people to work in NHS jobs, and improve wellbeing for existing staff, so they don’t need to leave. Ultimately, it all adds up to better patient care.
The NHS unions are leading this campaign to help inspire staff and managers across the health service to start a conversation about flexible working, and find the flex that works for them.
Use this site to find out more about flexible working rights, different options, and how people are finding the joy of flex in the NHS right now.
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24 March 2025
How many people know that workers on zero-hours contracts don’t just deliver their takeaways, but their healthcare too? Over 150,000 NHS colleagues in England alone do their jobs solely through NHS Banks. Sometimes these Banks are run by NHS Trusts, but sometimes they are run by NHS Professionals – a limited company owned by the
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12 February 2025
James Allen is the CSP’s Senior Negotiating Officer in the South West. The CSP’s local stewards, health and safety, and equality reps are the voice in the workplace. Through them, we can understand what problems members are facing and address those. Flexible working is something that comes up frequently both as an employment issue and
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27 November 2024
By Gill Morgan, National Officer, Employment Relations at Royal College of Nursing As Trade unions we regularly advise our members about their options after a flexible working request has been declined – not surprisingly, one of the more common complaints we hear is that managers aren’t open to exploring different ways of working, and that they are too rigid in their thinking. Often we
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