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Internal transfer and external secondment

Providing guidance on continuous service implications and directing to relevant resources for more information.

An internal transfer is where an employee is appointed to a new job within the council on a fixed term or permanent basis. For more information, contact your People Management Service.

A secondment is where an individual (the 'secondee') transfers on a fixed term basis, for a specific purpose, either

  • into the council from another organisation ('inward' secondment)

or

  • out of the council to another organisation ('outward' secondment)

For more information refer to the secondment guidance(DOC 344KB).

Continuous service on transfer back to the council (PDF 224KB) explains how your continuous service is  affected if you transfer out of the council to work for another organisation and then transfer back.