Staff Passporting – the benefits and latest in south east London
Staff passporting enables the temporary movement of people more easily between organisations, with mutual benefits for employers and their staff. The concept was successfully used during the Covid-19 pandemic but has since been developed by both NHSE and regional health and care organisations including London.
The benefits: Employees of those organisations who have signed an agreement are able to obtain an ‘honorary passport’ if they wish to, enabling them to temporarily move to other providers who are signatories, to meet urgent staffing needs or skills gaps.
Staff remain with their substantive employer, so the scheme significantly limits the duplication of onboarding tasks for their new host. For employees, the experience can also help support their professional development by working with a new team in a different environment.
The landscape in south east London: Currently there are a number of staff passports available for staff within the south east London system, such as:
- London Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) – a staff movement agreement between London NHS organisations (including primary care) who have signed up in order to enable temporary movement of an employee between NHS/Health organisations.
- One Bromley agreement – the purpose of this agreement is to enable free movement of staff across One Bromley organisations in the delivery of Bromley Hospital at Home. This is open to both to NHS and non-NHS organisations.
- King’s Health Partners (KHP) passport – providing partnerships to develop clinical services, research and education and training across the sites of participating organisations.
To find out more please contact the ICS People Programme at [email protected]