Produced by the Social Partnership Forum, the NHS Staff Passport is primarily a web based toolkit which takes staff, their representatives and their employers through the workforce implications of five different types of transfer.
The toolkit was launched at NHS Employers annual conference: Leading Workforce Thinking 2009 on 3 November 2009 and commended by Health Minister in his speech to the conference.
The Social Partnership Forum has been working in partnership on the NHS Staff Passport as a priority to bring clarity and reassurance to staff facing transfer in the NHS.
The toolkit has been designed to provide NHS staff facing transfer with an easy to use, practical guide to the employment standards and rights they can expect when being transferred either to another NHS provider or outside the NHS to a provider who is contracted to offer NHS services.
The NHS Staff Passport also aims to give HR advisors, trade union representatives and managers an online advice tool that they can use to advise staff facing a transfer on the employment standards that they can expect.
Some of the information provided in the toolkit may need an explanation to help individuals understand the implications and wherever possible managers should talk through the toolkit with managers, HR advisors or trade union representatives as this will add real value to the information provided.
Find out more about the NHS Staff Passport from the Social Partnership Forum website.
See a summary of Mike O'Brien's speech to the conference.