Rewarding Involvement
Once part of a QI project team, as well as gaining new skills and sharing ideas, as a service user or carer, you will now be able to recieve payment for your contribution to the work.
We want to recognise the valuable contribution service users make to our work. This page will allow you (whether service user/carer or staff member, part of a QI project) to access documents you need to arrange payment.
Are you a service user/carer? Do you want to be involved in a QI project? Click here to register your interest
Below are various options for payment for service user/carer time.
How do we make payments for service users and carers time?
Option 1- Under Reward and Recognition Policy
- If you are involving service users in any meetings, focus groups or any regular commitment then
- Under 2 hours- £10
- Over 2 hours – £20
- Payments are made via BACS and no cash payments should be made.
- BACS forms and user payment forms are available to download below
Option 2- Permitted Work (for people on benefits)
- If you require more and sustained input into a QI project (someone to regularly measure satisfaction on a weekly basis for example) then we (People Participation Team) can help support the QI project to place someone on Permitted Work (via the Job Centre)
- This allows a service user to earn up to £104 a week (work up to 15 hours a week) without affecting their benefits so that people can be given a regular task or project
- Payments are made via BACS and no cash payments should be made.
Option 3 – Employment by the Trust on temporary/bank contract (for those people not on benefit, retired and in employment)
- Initially graded a AFC Band 3 employee
- A temporary bank contract
- This would be regarded as taxable earnings
Making payments
- All costs related to the above are to be met via budget code related to the host team for the QI project (unfortunately we do not have central funds for this).
- All completed BACS and payment forms should be sent to SUC-payments@nhs.net for processing
- Except Bank payments which will be made in the usual manner
If you have any questions about this please contact Paul Binfield
