Flexible Working Policy

Appendix 1

Examples of working arrangements/patterns which can be requested under the right to request flexible working are listed below:

Annualised hours – working time organised based on the number of hours to be worked over a year rather than a week.

Compressed hours – total hours which can be worked over a shorter period e.g. full weekly hours being worked over 4 days instead of 5.

Flexi time – choice of actual working hours outside certain core times.

Home working – not necessarily on a full-time basis but allows for time to be divided between home and office base. A risk assessment of the activities undertaken will be required in advice of this pattern of work being undertaken.

Job sharing – typically when two people are employed on a part-time basis but working together to cover one post.

Shift working – gives scope to open longer hours and for employees to have either set or different hours of work per week.

Staggered hours – different start and finish times at different times of the day.

Term time working – allows for unpaid leave of absence during the school holidays.