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Supporting our staff with mediation

Promoting positive working relationships plays a huge part in keeping our staff happy and healthy at work.

A new confidential mediation service is available to support colleagues who are experiencing conflict in the workplace. Mediation involves one or two neutral people working with staff who have a disagreement, to help them explore the issues and to identify ideas about how they might be resolved, in a way that's acceptable to everyone.

Mediation can develop understanding and improve relationships, and it is likely to be less stressful than formal procedures for those involved, as well as being concluded more promptly. Further information on mediation is available on HIVE. Mediation can be requested by emailing a completed mediation request form to mediation@christie.nhs.uk Annual Leave carryover 2020/21

If required, you may carry over up to 37.5 hours (pro rata for part time employees) into the new leave year. Please note that if you are also buying annual leave, you may not be able to carry any leave over. The maximum amount a person can buy and carry over combined is 37.5 hours, or the equivalent of one working week. Your manager will need to confirm the leave to be carried over (in hours) via email to alcarryover@ christie.nhs.uk no later than 15th March 2020.

The new annual leave year starts on 1st April 2020. Please discuss with your line manager if you have any annual leave for the current year that you haven’t yet taken or booked. You should both have ensured that you have taken sufficient leave breaks during the year to allow for appropriate rest periods therefore there is an expectation that your annual leave will have been used.

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