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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23 September 2024
You are Joan’s manager. Joan is a band 5 staff nurse and has been working in the hospital for the past 15 years. Joan loves her job but is finding it difficult to manage work and family life and often feels guilty about not having enough time to spend with her two small children. Joan
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10 September 2024
Our trade union representatives (across all unions!) are always hearing from members whose flexible working requests have been denied. Not because of clinical need. Not because there aren’t enough staff. But because, more often than not, managers are not willing or able to think outside the box. Is this just down to individual managers being
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5 September 2024
Laura Bevan is Chief People Officer at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust. She’s also part of a national working group looking at people policies across the NHS, as well as a mum of two. Laura talks to us about how RNOH recognise the significant part that flexible working plays in providing people with
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