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2021 pay and TCS advisory notices

Pay and terms and conditions notices during the year 2021 for staff under the NHS terms and conditions of service.
Agenda for change

29 July 2021

Access the pay and TCS advice notices, previously known as pay circulars, which provide information on nationally agreed changes to the NHS terms and conditions of service handbook during 2021.

2021

NHS Terms and Conditions of Service (TCS) advisory notice 02/2021

This notice advises of the publication of version 45 of the NHS terms and conditions of service handbook.

The NHS Staff Council has negotiated changes to the terms and conditions and the list of amendments, effective from 13 September 2021, are detailed below.

Is the section new or amended? Section / annex of the handbook Key amendments
New Section 33: Balancing work and personal life (England & Wales)

The new section for England and Wales sees the introduction of a contractual day one right to request flexible working arrangements.

Amendments also see a re-emphasis on the requirement for organisations to be more explorative in trying to reach a mutually workable outcome, and monitoring requests to ensure greater consistency of access.
Amended Section 33: Balancing work and personal life

This section now only applies to Scotland and Northern Ireland in light of a new Section 33 which applies to England and Wales only.

This section has been renamed to Section 33: Balancing work and personal life (Scotland & NI).

Pay advisory notice 02/2021

The addendum below advises of changes to version 44 of the NHS terms and conditions of service handbook.

Section / Annex Date of change Detail of change
Annex 2: Pay bands and pay points in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland 10 August 2021 A new Annex 2 for the devolved administrations of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland were incorporated within the NHS TCS Handbook and include links to their current pay circulars.

This notice advises of the publication of version 44 of the NHS terms and conditions of service handbook. These amendments are backdated to 1 April 2021.

The list of amendments are detailed below:

Is the section new or amended?

Section / annex of the handbook

Key amendment

Amended

Annex 2: Pay bands and pay points on the second pay spine in England

Pay scales for the financial year 2021/22 have been updated to reflect the 3 per cent uplift. This is a consolidated increase to the pay bands and pay points from 1 April 2021.

Amended

Annex 3: Pay points in England

The previous interim Annex 2 which was in place pending the 2021/22 pay award has been archived under Annex 3.

Amended

Annex 9: High cost area supplements

Uplifted the minimum and maximum rates by 3 per cent in line with the 2021/22 pay award which can be found in Table 18.


Pay advisory notice 01/2021 & NHS Terms and Conditions of Service (TCS) advisory notice

This notice advises of the publication of version 43 of the NHS terms and conditions of service handbook. These amendments take effect from 1 April 2021.

Pay advisory notice 01/2021

The list of amendments are detailed below:

Is the section new or amended?

Section / annex of the handbook

Key amendments

Amended

Annex 2: Pay bands and pay points on the second pay spine in England

Revised presentation of the pay structure now all reform to the pay bands is complete. There are no changes to the pay values.

Final transitional pay points in bands 5, 6 & 7 have been removed.

Amended

Annex 3: Pay points in England

The previous presentation of the pay structure, covering the period 01 April 2018 - 31 March 2021, has been archived under Annex 3.

NHS Terms and Conditions of Service (TCS) advisory notice 01/2021

The NHS Staff Council has negotiated changes to the terms and conditions and the list of amendments are detailed below:

Is the section new or amended?

Section / annex of the handbook

Key amendments

Amended

Annex 1: NHS Employers

Updates to the list of entities considered employing organisations (England & Wales) for the purposes of the NHS terms and conditions of service handbook.

Amended

Section 1: Pay Structure (England)

Amendments to the provisions for annually earned points.

All pay on promotions provisions have been relocated to this section (from Section 2, England and Section 6, England).

Amended

Section 2: Maintaining round the clock services (England)

Unsocial hours rates for 2018 and 2019 have been removed.

Pay on promotion provisions have been relocated to Section 1, England.

Amended

Section 6: Career progression (England)

All pay on promotion provisions, including temporary movements in to a higher pay band, have been updated to take account of Annex 23 and relocated in to Section 1, England.

Amended

Section 15: Leave and pay for new parents (England, Wales & Scotland)

New provisions for England, Wales and Scotland which provide for the use of notional full pay where concurrent periods of maternity or adoption leave are taken.