Human Resources

Human Resources Privacy Notice

This Privacy Notice describes how Lydden Surgery collect and use personal information about you during and after your working relationship with us.

We are required by law to provide you with the following information about how we handle your information.  The full range of Privacy Notices can be found here:

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Data Controller contact details

Lydden Surgery

114 Canterbury Road

Lydden

Dover

Kent

CT15 7ET

Purpose of the processing

 

Reasons for processing your personal data include:

Staff administration and management (including payroll and performance)
Pensions administration
Business management and planning
Accounting and Auditing
Accounts and records
Education
Health administration and services
Information and databank administration
Crime prevention and prosecution of offenders
Sharing and matching of personal information for national fraud initiative

A list of Practice processing activities can be found here:

Processing Activities 

Information we collect and use

Personal Information

your name, photograph, contact details including address, email address and telephone number, date of birth, National Insurance (NI) Number and driving licence (if relevant to the role), information about your nationality and entitlement to work in the UK

Job Information

the terms and conditions of your employment
details of your working arrangements (days of work and working hours) and attendance at work
details of your qualifications, skills, experience, and employment history, including start and end dates, and dates of continuous service
information about your remuneration, including entitlement to benefits such as pensions or insurance cover
details of periods of leave taken by you, including holiday, sickness absence, family leave and the reasons for the leave
details of vaccinations if relevant to your post
details of your bank account for pay and expenses purposes

Performance Information

details of any disciplinary, performance, absence, or grievance procedures in which you have been involved, including any warnings issued to you and related correspondence
assessments of your performance, including appraisals, performance reviews and ratings, training you have participated in, performance improvement plans and related correspondence

Information about your family

information about your spouse, partner or civil partner or other individuals when names as an emergency contact
information on dependants where required for pension purposes or childcare vouchers or benefits

Special Category Data

information about medical or health conditions, including whether you have a disability for which the Practice needs to make reasonable adjustments
equal opportunities monitoring information, including information about your ethnic origin, sexual orientation, health and religion or belief
Trade union affiliations, where applicable
Information about past criminal convictions (Disclosure and Barring Service), and or your fitness to practise in certain regulated professions

Lawful basis for processing

 

Article 6(1)(b)…‘necessary for the performance of a contract with employee’

Article 6(1)(c)…’necessary for compliance with a legal obligation’

Article 6(1)(f)…’in the Practice’s legitimate interests, which are not outweighed by the fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject’

Article 9(2)(b) Employment, social security, and social protection

Article 9(2)(g) Reasons of substantial public interest

Schedule 1, Part 1(1) Data Protection Act 2018 – Necessary for the purposes of performing or exercising obligations or rights which are imposed or conferred by law on the controller or the Data Subject in connection with employment, social security, or social protection.

Schedule 1, Part 2(8) Data Protection Act 2018 – necessary for the purposes of identifying or keeping under review the existence or absence of equality of opportunity or treatment between groups of people specified in relation to that category with a view to enabling such equality to be promoted or maintained

Schedule 1, Part 2(14) Data Protection Act – is necessary for the purposes of preventing fraud or a particular kind of fraud

Recipient or categories of recipients of the processed data

Professional Bodies (e.g. GMC, RCN, etc.)

Payroll Provider IRIS GP Payroll

Pension Provider NHS Pension/Nest

Occupational Health Provider: Heales Medical

HM Revenue and Customs

Education Establishments

Police & Judicial Services

CQC

NHS jobs/Indeed

Workforce tools

MDDUS Solicitors

Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)

Your previous or prospective employer

Lydden Surgery may also receive information about you from these organisations.

Right of access

Subject to certain conditions, you are entitled to have access to your personal data (this is more commonly known as submitting a “data subject access request”).

Rights in relation to inaccurate personal or incomplete data

You may challenge the accuracy or completeness of your personal data and have it corrected or completed, as applicable.

 

Rights to object to or restrict our data processing

Subject to certain conditions, you have the right to object to or ask us to restrict the processing of your personal data.

This right applies where our processing of your personal data is necessary for our legitimate interests. You can also object to our processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes.

Right to erasure

Subject to certain conditions, you are entitled to have your personal data erased (also known as the “right to be forgotten”), e.g. where your personal data is no longer needed for the purposes it was collected for, or where the relevant processing is unlawful.

We may not be able to erase your personal data, if for example, we need it to (i) comply with a legal obligation, or (ii) exercise or defend legal claims.

How to exercise your rights

To exercise your rights, please contact kmicb.lyddenreception@nhs.net

Retention period

 

Your personnel records are kept in compliance with law and national guidance. Details on how long records are kept are set out in the NHS England, Record Management Code of Practice 2021.

Right to complain

 

If you are unhappy with how your personal data is processed, you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioners Office (ICO). Their helpline number is 0303 123 1113.

We would, however, appreciate the opportunity to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please do contact us (kmicb.lyddenreception@nhs.net) in the first instance.

Data Protection Officer contact details

 

Dan Clement

GP Data Protection Officer

NHS Kent and Medway

Kmicb.gpdpoteam@nhs.net