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Key worker eligibility

This page contains information on the Council's definition of key workers

The Council’s definition of a key worker includes all of those people meeting the national Key Worker Living Definition and also others who meet the local definition (see below).

 

In addition keys workers must also meet the key worker criteria at the end of the page.

The Council’s definition of a key worker includes all of those people meeting the national Key Worker Living Definition and also others who meet the local definition.

Key worker occupations

Category 1 (National definition)

• NHS: All clinical staff employed by the NHS except doctors and dentists 

• Education: Qualified teachers in LEA schools and sixth form colleges, lecturers in FE colleges, children’s social workers and qualified nursery nurses in LEA nursery schools only

• Police: Police officers and community support officers including those working for the British Transport Police or the Civil Nuclear Constabulary (CNC) in certain areas. Some front line civilian police roles are also eligible – this varies by force

• Prison Service: Prison officers and related grades, operational support grades, nursing staff, industrials and instructional officers working at specified locations

• Probation Service: Probation officers, senior probation officers, probation service officers, trainee probation officers and other operational staff (except Assistant Chief Officers) who work directly with offenders

• Local Authority: Local authority employed clinical staff, adult social workers, occupational therapists, educational psychologists, speech and language therapists, rehabilitation officers for the visually impaired and qualified nursery nurses. Local authority planners employed by the Local Planning Authority delivering statutory planning services

• Connexions: Personal Advisors provided that they are employed by a local authority or a Connexions Partnership. Connexions Personal Advisors employed by private or voluntary sector organisations are not eligible

• Fire and Rescue: Fire Fighters Uniformed fire and rescue staff below principal level

• Other:

  • MOD posts: Regular service personnel, including: Military Provost Guard Service, in the Navy, Army and Air Force; MoD Police Officers

  • uniformed staff in the Defence Fire Service

  • Full Time Reserve Service (Full Commitment)

  • Environmental Health Officers/ Practitioners Qualified Environmental Health Officers/Practitioners who work in a local authority, government agency, NHS or other public sector agency, AND who hold either a EHRB Certificate of Registration or an EHRB Diploma in Environmental Health

  • Traffic Officer staff of the Highways Agency Traffic Officer Service All applicants must be in one of the following safety critical roles: Supervisor (on road and off road);Traffic Officer; andRCC Operator.

Category 2 (Local definition)

Other public service professional, technical, and front line workers, and also workers providing support services to them (or to those in Category 1).

 This category includes:

• postal workers

• people training for an occupation in this Category or Category 1

• hospital ancillary staff

• local government workers

• administrative staff within the police, fire service, education

• social services etc.

• classroom assistants.

 Other key worker criteria

 Key workers also need to meet the following criteria:

•  work for an organisation that has as its primary purpose delivering services to the general public at no charge or a nominal universal charge; e.g. public body; charity; Registered Social Landlord, private company serving the public as a whole (e.g. Water Company)

• work from a base within the Borough

•  employed on a permanent contract or fixed term contract with more than six months un-expired at time of application

•  be employed in one of the key worker occupations (overleaf) as their main employment

•  must hold a recognised technical or professional qualification if this is normally required for the job

• be unable to buy a home suitable for their household needs and within a reasonable travelling distance to their place of employment

• have indefinite leave either to enter or to remain in the UK (excluding key workers from member states of the EU/EEA).

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