Central Support Team for New Deal and WTR
The remit of the Central Support Team for New Deal and WTR is to help resolve any local and operational difficulties encountered by both NHS employers and employees (Doctors in Training & their representatives) in the implementation of the New Deal; to collect and report to Scottish Government Health Department on New Deal compliance levels and to support the achievement and maintenance of WTR compliance for all NHS Staff.
The main functions of the service are:
- Rota redesign support
- Sign-off of rota re-banding/provisional re-bandings
- Data gathering and monitoring of compliance and non hour standards
- Support for local New Deal processes
- WTR support
- Participation in New Deal appeals panels
- Dispute resolution via the informal appeals mechanism
- Agree short term deferrals of monitoring for individual rotas where both the employer and junior doctors on the rota support this.
- Agree annual monitoring where appropriate
- Agree on unrepresentative monitoring results by providing an independent view and without affecting the trainee or employer’s rights to appeal.
- Monitor and report on invalid return rates and advise on how to minimise these.
- Reporting WTR compliance issues to SGHD
- Maintenance of the New Deal website
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