Civil service departmental transfer

[Whatshouldbemyusername]

Hi all,

This is my first post on this. I am currently working for a CS department and have only been in the CS for four months (I am still on probation). However, I have the worst manager and I want to jump ship.

I applied for another permanent role externally within another CS department and got an email this morning that I’m successful!

What I wanted to know is

1. would my clock start again with Probation?
2. secondly, 8 weeks within my current role, I found out I’m pregnant. I want to obviously be eligible for maternity pay. My question is will my move be classed as “continuous employment” since I am moving to another CS department?

Any advise would help. Thank you in advance!

1 - Is your current job permanent?

If so, then likely yes, you will have to start probation again.

2 - Yes, it would be considered continuous, even if you swapped departments every week....

Thanks Plonthy,
Yes both roles are permanent. So probation starts again! Ugh. Wish they could just add 3 months or so on...

Ok thanks. So I would still be eligible for maternity as long as I meet the 26 week criteria right? Me being on probation doesn’t matter right as technically by the time I would start the new role I suppose I would be employed for 5 months atleast within the CS.

It would be continuous if you applied as an internal (to the CS) employee though? If you applied and did not tell them you were currently employed by CS and currently on probation (think there is a tick box on the first page) then, you would be applying as external and everything starts again?

Thanks @Haggyhaggerson

I applied as external but told them in my interview I’m internal and on probation . And today when I received my offer I also received an email giving me a government departmental form.

So this is the scenario. Does this change anything?

Thanks in advance

I’m not sure in all honesty. I would be concerned if this was not reflected in writing. Did you follow up with your employment status in writing after?

I would definitely talk to the recruitment team in your new place - a colleague who did this and tried to rectify later on during the recruiting process (had passed probation, but wanted to retain his continous employment for holidays etc) was not able to in time for his start date so had to start as a new employment to avoid delays. However this person was also trying to hide detection of his poor performance in his previous role so different circs.

What was the form you received?

*I applied as external but told them in my interview I’m internal and on probation . And today when I received my offer I also received an email giving me a government departmental form.

So this is the scenario. Does this change anything?*

No.

Fact is, you are transferring from one Govt Dept to another Govt Dept.

Makes no difference whether the job was advertised internally or externally (with the obvious exception that a non-civil servant/Joe Public cant apply for an internal vacancy.)

Get the transfer form completed - move. Enjoy!

@Haggyhaggerson and @Plonthy thank you both!

I have emailed the new department anyways to get some clarification but they might take some time so just wanted to make sure I get some insight. Especially with the maternity benefits. That’s the most important at the moment as don’t want to jeopardise that with baby due in 7months.

Thanks everyone. I will update this thread with confirmed information.

Hello all.

Just wanted to update the thread. I'm starting in the other civil service department on 19th. It's thankfully after my probation (as internal transfer can also take ages). I also am continuously employed so I get to keep all my benefits such as pension and maternity and since it's a level transfer I get to keep my salary too.

@Whatshouldbemyusername
Thankyou for update & good luck with the new start !