Civil service job location "national"

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Anyone know what it means when a civil service job's location is just listed as national? I've often seen jobs with vast areas and counties listed, but this has nothing. Does this mean you can work out of any hub? It doesn't even list HQ for the organisation (though I think it's London, but the salary shows both the national and London rate)

I'm CS already and hoping to remain WFH as I can with my current organisation. Another CS job I applied for I had to choose from a list of preferred locations but this doesn't appear to have that.

Yes, I would take that to mean national if you’re uncertain contact the hr contact.

Thank you. I'm not sure if the contact is a HR contact or the line manager/recruiter so I don't want to ask about location to them, I haven't decided yet if I'm going to contact them for a pre-application conversation because I don't have much to ask about the role, for once it's a very good job description! If I do decide to contact them I will ask but don't want it to be the sole question if they're not HR.

(If that waffle makes sense!)

National may refer to pay scale I.e national rather than London.

In relation to location, they may have locations all over e.g job centres.

just phone and ask, no one will judge you if you then want a further conversation.

Thank you just noticed there was a separate recruitment specific contact so I've emailed them. Viewing the job internally has the location field left blank bizarrely.

A lot are going national particularly in departments with branches in other cities. They are moving far more to national as people are likely to be working from home a lot in future so it allows better flexibility. If you'd rather be in an office check where the the locations of the departments offices are.

@Bells3032 I'm hoping it means possibility to be 100% home based to be honest, but will see what they come back with, putting in an application either way!

I don't know about other departments but mine is just starting to review what the office will look like post covid. Seems the most popular options are office 1-3 days a week with flexibility. As someone TTC atm I would appreciate being able to WFH four days a week in future but we just don't know yet.

I don't know if other departments are further along in their thinking

Funnily enough our new "blended policy" came through today. We are being expected to work equivalent of 2 days a month in the office but can do it in a variety of ways. Only bugger is they're introducing core hours which we've bizarrely not had before, I pick up the kids on Friday pms to save on childcare for one day, I won't be able to do that any more under the new policy, although I suspect my manager will still let me.

Ours are all national now. For us, it means you are attached to an office (usually whichever is closest to you), but you can work from home/do hybrid working. When we go back to offices I’ll be two days at home, one in London and two in my local office (G7).