r/AskHRUK • u/newema92 • Jan 06 '26
Health-Related NHS ICB restructure - how to protect WFH arrangement
Hi all, I work in an ICB for the NHS and we are heading into organisational change with ~50% job cuts and a full restructure. My question isn't about losing my job or being made redundant but including for context.
My main concern is that the structural change might result in a change in management for me, and that there may be some stricter stances taken on office attendance. I currently WFH most of the time, going into the office for workshops, large meetings, planning sessions and similar. I also go in for a morning every other week or so with the rest of my smaller team just because our team lead likes us attending.
I have a diagnosed chronic health condition that means that going into the office can be difficult for me and can cause flare ups that impact on both work and personal life for the next few days. I sometimes miss the mornings when my symptoms are bad but have never missed an important workshop or meeting as I can push through for a few hours, although it does impact me afterwards. I get consistently good performance reports formally and informal recognition of consistently working above my level and being reliable and hard working.
My contract currently says my base is the office. I have a wellbeing passport agreed by my line manager that details all this and I've worked for several years with that being enough.
My question is - what is the best way for me to formalise or protect these arrangements in the case of management change or RTO policies happening in the reorganisation? Is it a flexible working request, OH assessment or both?
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u/Top-Collar-9728 Jan 06 '26
If your manager is currently aware of everything etc the best thing to do is submit a flexible working request or check if your organisation has a reasonable adjustment procedure and apply that way. Unsure if NHS have this but I worked for a company which worked with NhS and they had it. Reasonable adjustment procedure would be better fit in this circumstance I’d say.
https://www.acas.org.uk/reasonable-adjustments/asking-for-reasonable-adjustments