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Join Date: Sep 2007
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Non Effective Does Not Always Mean Shafting To Follow
As someone who has been posted non-effective after surgery in the last couple of years, I would like to reassure your friend that it can work out very much for the best for the Service Person. A lot depends on the medical staff and P staff liaison and how much interest the chain of command pays to the welfare of the SP. In the best circumstances, the SP is shielded from being pestered/blackmailed into returning to work before they are ready, and the postholder can ask for manpower assistance before the post has been empty for more than 3 months. Contrary to some opinions offered on this thread, only the medical staff can initiate Non Effective action, sending a recommendation to High Wycombe as a Medical Board Regrading for consideration and endorsement.
Of course, if there are other than medical factors involved, all options for posting skullduggery are open to the poster and chain of command. However, if the SP maintains a good liaison with the med staff, they are duty and honour bound to look after the whole person, and that includes fighting the case for them to stay on a station as they contine their recovery and return to work. In my case, the post holder got short term manning assistance from the outset and I returned to work on the same station when I was fit enough to return to work and start my rehabilitation. One of the downsides of being posted Non Effective is that one immediately becomes an invisible person - i.e. no contact at all from work and only a cursory occasional 'courtesy call' from SSAFA who were, as always from my experience, all assistance short of actual help....but that's another thread entirely.
Of course, if there are other than medical factors involved, all options for posting skullduggery are open to the poster and chain of command. However, if the SP maintains a good liaison with the med staff, they are duty and honour bound to look after the whole person, and that includes fighting the case for them to stay on a station as they contine their recovery and return to work. In my case, the post holder got short term manning assistance from the outset and I returned to work on the same station when I was fit enough to return to work and start my rehabilitation. One of the downsides of being posted Non Effective is that one immediately becomes an invisible person - i.e. no contact at all from work and only a cursory occasional 'courtesy call' from SSAFA who were, as always from my experience, all assistance short of actual help....but that's another thread entirely.
