Surgeons

The Employing Trust identifies staff and/or roles engaged in the delivery of services. Once the Employing Trust has shared the details of the employees with the JV Host and the details have been confirmed, the Employing Trust will consult, if necessary, with the identified staff in relation to the provision of the services. Where relevant, this will include temporary staff, trainees or locums assigned to the service as well as staff in permanent positions.

The Trust clinical staff will remain employed by their Employing Trust for the duration of the contract with the JV Host. The Employing Trust will remain responsible for the payment of salary, allowances, and expenses, tax, national insurance and pension contributions due to and/or with respect to the Trust Clinical Staff.

The Employing Trust is responsible for:

• Job planning (as defined in the standard Consultant Contract terms and conditions) for the Trust clinical staff with input from the JV Host, and will commission the required sessions for the Services;
• working arrangements, rosters, agreeing annual leave, special leave etc. in a manner which is consistent with the terms and conditions of employment of the Trust clinical staff also considering the requirements of the JV Host;
• appraisal and supervision of all Trust clinical staff. Such appraisals will be conducted in accordance with the Employing Trust’s appraisal policies and procedure and action relevant feedback from the JV Host;
• Clinical Excellence Awards in relation to the Trust clinical staff;
• fulfilling existing mandatory and/or contractual training obligations relating to and to be undertaken by individual Trust clinical staff (including cost). Where necessary in relation to delivery of the services, the parties will agree to a schedule of continued and future training to be provided to Trust clinical staff, including any transfer of costs and funding relating to such training;
• assessing and implementing the relevant Agenda for Change pay progressions; and
• identifying future requirements for training relating to continued professional development required by Trust Clinical Staff through the appraisal and supervision process with the input of the JV Host;
• taking reasonable steps to ensure that Trust clinical staff follow all reasonable and lawful directions given to them by or under authority of the relevant JV Host manager and should use their best endeavours to promote the interests of the JV Host;
• delegating responsibility to the JV Host to enable the Medical Director of the Joint Venture to supervise and monitor the performance of the Trust clinical staff. The Medical Director of the Joint Venture will have the ability to delegate these duties, as appropriate;
• ensuring that Trust clinical staff are cleared to carry out their full duties having undertaken pre-employment checks in accordance with the NHS Employment Checks Standards and/or other checks as required by the Disclosure and Barring Services or other national guidelines or policies. The Employing Trust should alert the JV Host to outstanding checks or other investigations;
• ensuring the Trust Clinical Staff have relevant qualifications and are sufficiently experienced to perform the Elective Orthopaedic Services and they are fully registered (including with the General Medical Council (“GMC”) or other appropriate training body or training institution for the discipline) and have appropriate indemnity insurance in respect of their performance of the Elective Orthopaedic Services;
• ensuring all Trust clinical staff receive regular supervision, appraisals, and development reviews.