NHS bank and permanent staff

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Any NHS HR/managers on here?

I am currently work part time in the NHS and looking at going full time (2 extra days). I requested this 6 months ago but was told there was no extra funding.

I have just found out that an agency locum who had been covering 2 days doing the same role on my ward was switched to bank around this time.

Should this bank position have been advertised interally for substantive staff such as myself to apply before being given to agency staff?

I would have been happy with bank in the interim but wasn't made aware this was possible.

Any advice welcome.

Bank 'positions' wouldn't be advertised internally because there isn't supposed to be such a thing.
Bank is for temporary staffing issues, such as covering sickness, a sudden increase in service demand or whilst awaiting vacancies to be approved.
If the same staff member is being booked for months at a time ( longer than 12 weeks) and included as part of the roster for your work area, (with a guaranteed two days a week) , the staffing for the area isn't being managed properly.
The manager should be completing a vacancy form ( either temporary or permanent) and submitting it for approval.
Perhaps he/ she has already tried that though and it's been rejected .
Maybe the manager wants this staff member on their team permanently ( highly valued) but the only option available to them right now is to go via bank.
Have you registered with the bank yourself to pick up more days.

What @Minnie798 said. These are not actual jobs as such, they're short term measures to cover an absence, or additional piece of work, that type of thing. You should register for the bank yourself, if you haven't already.

Thank you for your replies. I was already registered on bank but wasn't given the option of the extra two days as bank. The 2 days were covering part of another member of staff's maternity leave subsequently reduced their hours upon return. However, instead of giving me the option of increasing to full time or part time with bank, they have made the agency worker bank.

Bank isn't a position as such. It just means they needed a short term staff member. And if someone is in the bank they could be called in.

It's akin to agency staff. So most bank staff are required at only a few hours notice. Though it can be longer.

Like an RMN might be needed in a general hospital for a specific patient, and they have no full time ones as it's not a psych ward.

I don't know if contracted HCP are allowed to also be bank? If they can just say they're not free the days they do the contracted work?