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in any fortnight not more than ten shifts are exceeded.
3.5 A roster showing the normal hours of duty of all Employees, except Employees performing
relief duties, will be posted in a place accessible to Employees at least seven days before it
comes into operation but amendments may subsequently be made to the roster on account
of the sickness or absence of another Employee, either by mutual agreement or if
departmental exigencies render any alteration necessary.
3.6 A Registered Nurse, working in a school, will be employed in annual terms and on duty
during school operating periods.
3.7 During school closures these nurses will take annual recreation leave, acquit their accrued
hours gained from the 38 hours week provisions and be available for duty including inservice
courses as required by the Department.
3.8 A Registered Nurse, designated as a remote Community Health Nurse, will be entitled to
accumulate up to five programmed days off resulting from working 40 hours per week.
4. Shift Work – See Clause 34 of the Agreement
5. Ambulance Duty Allowance
5.1 The following conditions will apply to an Employee required to undertake duty on aerial or
road ambulances.
5.2 Where an Employee is travelling with a patient or assisting a medical officer with a patient,
all ordinary time spent in travelling will be regarded as time on duty and paid at ordinary
rates. For any time of duty spent in such travel in excess of the rostered hours of duty on any
day or on a rostered day off, payment will be made at overtime rates in accordance with this
Agreement.
5.3 Where an Employee is travelling to a patient or having transported a patient is returning to
headquarters, all ordinary time spent in travelling will be regarded as time on duty and paid
at ordinary rates. For any time of travel in excess of the rostered hours of duty on any day
payment will be made at the rate of single time on days other than Sundays and public
holidays, and at time and one half rates on Sundays and public holidays, up to a maximum of
five hours.
5.4 Where such travel is undertaken on a rostered day off, payment will be made at the rate of
single time on days other than Sundays and public holidays and at time and one half rates on
Sundays and public holidays, for the time of travel corresponding to normal hours of duty
subject to a maximum of eight hours on any day and for the time of travel outside normal
hours of duty subject to a maximum of five hours on any day.
5.5 For the purpose of this subclause day means midnight to midnight.
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NTPS NURSES AND MIDWIVES’ 2011-2014 Enterprise Agreement