InterDeanery Transfers

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Inter-Deanery Transfers
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Rationale

• Need for more stringent criteria to avoid abuse
• Avoidance of being too strict, without
  flexibility for discretion

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Interdeanery transfer principles

• Significant life events
• Caring responsibilities
• Committed relationship marriage, civil
  partnership etc
• Other relationships including the importance of
  support networks
• Length of rotation
• Impact on the well being of individual
• Having to accept a change of location of a
  partner where the partner has no real choice to
  changing the length or location of their
  employment

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Covered by OOPR/OOPE

• Research
• Education and leadership responsibilities of
  national significance

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Transfer Window

• During window, deanery panel will sit to consider
  requests from trainees wishing to transfer into
  Deanery
• Panel Deanery reps, lay person, trainee rep
  (from outside of Deanery), TPDs as appropriate
• Candidates ranked, offer of places to list of
  trainees (not all trainees may be placed)

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• Panel form source of advice for appeals
• Transfer windows November and May
• Requests to transfer accepted at ay time, but
  unless flagged as urgent will be considered in
  transfer windows only
• Fast tracking for exceptional circumstances
• Swaps not allowed

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• Trainees required to sign that information given
  is true. Probity issue is later found to be
  untrue
• Trial for one year (with prospective data
  collection on requests and movements in/out by
  specialty)

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Appeals

• Appeal against release conducted by Dean
• Appeal against panel decision to accept
  separate panel (with lay and trainee reps)
• Trainee can contest decision, apart from the fact
  that there is not a job for them to go to
• Open competition vacancies could be highlighted
  to trainee

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Notes

• No movement within 1st year
• Exit from Deanery easy does not guarantee place
  in receiving Deanery
• Trainees need to consider ease of movement (eg to
  less popular place with vacancies)
• Need to balance IDTs with opportunities for
  trainees in that region to get posts
• An empty post does not guarantee agreement to
  transfer
• Always opportunity for competitive entry to new
  Deanery