Overview
The Senior Civil Service (SCS) are the most senior staff in the Department. The Cabinet Office helps departments and agencies to develop expertise and promote cohesion across the SCS, through a common broad management framework and by encouraging mobility between departments and agencies.
SCS Terms and Conditions
These SCS terms and conditions are agreed centrally:
- SCS members must sign a personal contract before taking a first appointment or any post involving a step change in responsibility and a pay increase
- SCS should be managed in accordance with the Cabinet Office guidance ‘A Checklist of Processes for SASC Group Appointments’
- Pay – Decisions on SCS pay are taken by the ACME SCS Pay Committee
ACME senior civil service pay strategy
Hours
FT members work 41hrs a week in London, 42hr/week elsewhere. SCS may be required to work additional hours. ACME may not recompense the SCS for additional hours worked. ACME can determine hours worked by PT staff.
Annual leave
30 days a year plus all public holidays and 2½ privilege days.
Notice
SCS must give 3 month notice. Staff joining before 2 April 1990 may give 1 months’ notice, provided they have not been promoted since that date.
Mobility
SCS staff may be required to transfer to another SCS post in the UK Civil Service.
