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Written by HR Advisor
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This policy forms part of Ashford & St Peter's Hospitals NHS Trust's commitment to create a positive culture of respect for all individuals including staff, patients, their families and carers as well as community partners. The Trust's values (the '4P's') and Staff Pledge are integral to all aspects of day-to-day life in the organisation and underpin the application of all our employment policies and procedures.
ASPH is committed to offering flexible, modern employment practices which recognise that staff want to achieve a work life balance between their home and work life. As part of it commitment to improving the working lives of its staff, ASPH recognises the need to support flexible working patterns where they can reasonably be accommodated in line with service need, understanding that they can benefit both the organisation and its staff in a range of ways:
- Allowing recruitment and retention of valuable skills and experience
- Promotion of equality of opportunity
- Improving staff morale and productivity
- Enabling employees to manage their work and outside commitments and/or interests
- Assisting and reducing anxiety and stress amongst the workforce
- Enabling the Trust to become an employer of choice
The aim of this policy is to provide a clear and consistent framework for considering requests by staff to change their working patterns and also requests for special leave.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 25 October 2010 13:55 )
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