Staff Employment

In order to carry out our activities and obligations as an employer we handle data in relation to:

• personal demographics (including age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief)
• Contact details such as name, address, telephone number and emergency contact(s)
• Employment records (including professional membership, references and proof of eligibility to work in the UK)
• Bank and pension details
• Medical information including physical and mental health condition
• Information relating to health and safety
• Trade union membership
• Offences, criminal proceedings, outcomes and sentences
• Employee relations files (such as grievance, disciplinary, performance, sickness/absence)
• Employment Tribunal applications, complaints, accidents and incident details

Our staff are trained to handle your information correctly and protect your confidentiality and privacy.

We aim to maintain high standards, adopt best practice for our record keeping and regularly check and report on how we are doing. Your information is never collected or sold for direct marketing purposes.

Your information will not be processed overseas unless we inform you otherwise.

• Staff administration, management and engagement
• Payroll and pensions administration
• Business management and planning
• Accounting and Auditing, including to HMRC
• Accounts and records
• Crime prevention and prosecution of offenders
• Education, learning and development
• Health administration and services
• Local/National databases and data warehouse administration
• Sharing and matching of personal information for national fraud initiative

We have a legal basis to process this as part of your contract of employment. Or as part of our recruitment processes following data protection and employment legislation.

To enable effective staff administration MKUH may share your information with external companies to process your data on our behalf. This is in order to comply with our obligations as an employer.

Employee Records; Contracts Administration (NHS Business Services Authority)

The information which you provide during the course of your employment; including the recruitment process, will be shared with the NHS Business Services Authority for maintaining your employment records held on the national NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR) system.

Prevention and Detection of Crime and Fraud

We may use the information we hold about you to detect and prevent crime or fraud. We may also share this information with other bodies that inspect and manage public funds.

Government Agencies

In order to comply with statutory requirements, we may be required to supply information about you and/or your employment/relationship with the Trust to central Government Agencies, departments or agents acting on their behalf (e.g. HMRC, DH, Home Office, DWP).

Payroll and Pensions Administration

Information will be shared with University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) in pursuit of administering your pay and any associated pensions, under/overpayments.

NHS Streaming

Details may be transferred from this Trust to other NHS trists to support the safe, efficient and effective transfer of staff information when a member of the workforce transfers from one NHS organisation to another. The personal data shared includes: name, address, date of birth, national insurance number and registration details.