Working for The Planning Inspectorate
Pay
We offer:
- a competitive salary that’s reviewed annually
- an occupational pension
Employee benefits and rewards
Employee benefits and rewards include:
- access to a Planning Inspectorate employee discount scheme
- access to an employee assistance programme providing confidential advice, information and counselling
- the option to join a trade union
- an instant reward scheme for those who demonstrate initiative or for team achievements
- a cycle to work scheme
- employees can apply for interest free season ticket loans
- sick leave on full pay, followed by half pay, up to the maximum allowed by the relevant scheme
Flexibility
Flexibilities include:
- all new staff get 25 days annual leave and 9 days public and privilege leave rising to 30 days annual leave after 5 years’ service (pro rata for part time staff)
- time off to deal with emergencies, unexpected situations and other unplanned special circumstances
- paid time off for public service duties – for example, if you’re an armed forces reservist
- family friendly policies, including flexible working patterns
- flexible working hours, subject to business needs
Maternity, paternity, adoption and parental leave benefits
- maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave of up to 26 weeks full pay, followed by 13 weeks statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid. We offer paternity leave of 2 weeks full pay
Development and career opportunities
We offer:
- rewarding and challenging jobs to help you develop and reach your potential
- a comprehensive range of learning and development opportunities to help you develop your skills, knowledge and experience
All of our jobs are advertised on:
Recruitment & Selection Privacy Notice
This statement provides information about how we process personal information for Individuals who have worked for or are looking to work for the Planning Inspectorate.
Recruitment & Selection Privacy Notice
PINS Personnel Record Retention Schedule
Disposal where a number is the deletion/destruction of the material XX years after its last modified date
Disposal ‘review’ is reviewed for either transfer to TNA, continued retention, or deletion/destruction
| Type | Type | Type | Type | Disposal (Years) | Amended Disposal | When to Review (Years) | Notes | Reference/Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Personnel | Personnel | Employment and career | Written particulars of employment | See notes | When individual reaches 100 years of age | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records | ||
| Personnel | Personnel | Employment and career | Contracts of employment, including the Certificate of Qualification or its equivalent and including the Senior Civil Service | See notes | When individual reaches 100 years of age | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records | ||
| Personnel | Personnel | Employment and career | Changes to terms and conditions, including change of hours letters | See notes | When individual reaches 100 years of age | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records | ||
| Personnel | Personnel | Employment and career | Job History - consolidated record of whole career and location details (paper or electronic) | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records | ||||
| Personnel | Personnel | Employment and career | Current address details | 6 | After employment had ended | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records | ||
| Personnel | Personnel | Employment and career | Record of location of overseas service | See notes | When individual reaches 100 years of age | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records | ||
| Personnel | Personnel | Employment and career | Variation of hours - calculation formula for individual | See notes | Destroy after use | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records | ||
| Personnel | Personnel | Employment and career | Promotion, temporary promotion and/or substitution documentation | See notes | Destroy after summary noted | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records | ||
| Personnel | Personnel | Employment and career | Working Time Directive opt out forms | 3 | After the opt-out has been rescinded or has ceased to apply | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records | ||
| Personnel | Personnel | Employment and career | Record of previous service dates | See notes | When individual reaches 100 years of age | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records | ||
| Personnel | Personnel | Employment and career | Previous service supporting papers | See notes | Destroy after records noted as appropriate | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records | ||
| Personnel | Personnel | Employment and career | Qualifications/references | 6 | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records | |||
| Personnel | Personnel | Employment and career | Transfer documents | See notes | Destroy after summary noted and actioned | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records | ||
| Personnel | Personnel | Employment and career | Annual/Assessment reports or summary of performance marks where an open reporting system operates | 5 | After reporting year has ended | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records | ||
| Personnel | Personnel | Employment and career | Annual/Assessment reports for the last five years of service or summary of performance marks where an open reporting system operates | See notes | When individual reaches 72 years of age | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records | ||
| Personnel | Personnel | Employment and career | Training history | 6 | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records | |||
| Personnel | Personnel | Employment and career | Travel and subsistence - claims and authorisation | 6 | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records | |||
| Personnel | Personnel | Employment and career | Annual leave records | 2 | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records | |||
| Personnel | Personnel | Employment and career | Job applications – internal | 2 | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records | |||
| Personnel | Personnel | Employment and career | Recruitment, appointment and/or promotion board selection papers | 2 | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records | |||
| Personnel | Personnel | Employment and career | Bank/Building society references | 0.5 | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records | |||
| Personnel | Personnel | Health | Health Declaration | See notes | When individual reaches 100 years of age | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records | ||
| Personnel | Personnel | Health | Health referrals, including Medical reports from doctors and consultants and correspondence with the appointed medical adviser to the PCSPS | See notes | When individual reaches 100 years of age | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records | ||
| Personnel | Personnel | Health | Papers relating to any injury on duty | See notes | When individual reaches 100 years of age | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records | ||
| Personnel | Personnel | Health | Medical reports of those exposed to a substance hazardous to health, including Lead, Asbestos, Compressed Air and Radiation | 50 | After date of last entry | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records | ||
| Personnel | Personnel | Health | Medical/Self Certificates – unrelated to industrial injury | 4 | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records | |||
| Personnel | Personnel | Pay and pension | Bank details - current | 6 | After leaving | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records | ||
| Personnel | Personnel | Pay and pension | Death Benefit Nomination and Revocation Forms | See notes | When individual reaches 100 years of age | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records | ||
| Personnel | Personnel | Pay and pension | Death certificates | See notes | Return original to provider. Retain copy until age 100 | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records | ||
| Personnel | Personnel | Pay and pension | Decree Absolutes | See notes | Return original to provider. Retain copy until age 100 | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records | ||
| Personnel | Personnel | Pay and pension | Housing advance | 6 | After repayment | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records | ||
| Personnel | Personnel | Pay and pension | Marriage certificate and documentation relating to civil registration | See notes | Return original to provider. Retain copy until age 100 | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records | ||
| Personnel | Personnel | Pay and pension | Unpaid leave periods (such as maternity leave) | See notes | When individual reaches 100 years of age | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records | ||
| Personnel | Personnel | Pay and pension | Statutory maternity pay documents | 6 | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records | |||
| Personnel | Personnel | Pay and pension | Other maternity pay documentation | 1.5 | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records | |||
| Personnel | Personnel | Pay and pension | Overpayment documentation | 6 | After repayment or write-off | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records | ||
| Personnel | Personnel | Pay and pension | Personal payroll history, including record of pay, performance pay, overtime pay, allowances, pay enhancements, other taxable allowances, payment for untaken leave, reduced pay, no pay, maternity leave | See notes | When individual reaches 100 years of age | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records | ||
| Personnel | Personnel | Pay and pension | Pensions estimates and awards | See notes | When individual reaches 100 years of age | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records | ||
| Personnel | Personnel | Pay and pension | Full name and date of birth | See notes | When individual reaches 100 years of age | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records | ||
| Personnel | Personnel | Pay and pension | National Insurance number | See notes | When individual reaches 100 years of age | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records | ||
| Personnel | Personnel | Pay and pension | Pensionable pay at leaving | See notes | When individual reaches 100 years of age | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records | ||
| Personnel | Personnel | Pay and pension | Reckonable service for pension purposes (and actual service where this is different, together with reasons for the difference) | See notes | When individual reaches 100 years of age | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records | ||
| Personnel | Personnel | Pay and pension | Reckonable service for pension purposes (and actual service where this is different, together with reasons for the difference) | See notes | When individual reaches 100 years of age | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records | ||
| Personnel | Personnel | Pay and pension | Amount and destination of any transfer value paid | See notes | When individual reaches 100 years of age | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records | ||
| Personnel | Personnel | Pay and pension | Amount of any refund of PCSPS contributions | See notes | When individual reaches 100 years of age | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records | ||
| Personnel | Personnel | Pay and pension | Amount and date of any Contributions | See notes | When individual reaches 100 years of age | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records | ||
| Personnel | Personnel | Pay and pension | Equivalent Premium paid | See notes | When individual reaches 100 years of age | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records | ||
| Personnel | Personnel | Pay and pension | All other papers relating to pensionability not listed above (such as papers about pensionability of other employment (including war service); extension of service papers; papers about widow’s, widower’s, children’s and other dependant’s pensions; correspondence with the Cabinet Office, other departments and pension administrators, or the officer and his/her representatives (MPs, unions or others) about pension matters | See notes | When individual reaches 100 years of age | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records | ||
| Personnel | Personnel | Pay and pension | Resignation, termination and/or retirement letters | See notes | When individual reaches 100 years of age | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records | ||
| Personnel | Personnel | Pay and pension | Added years | See notes | When individual reaches 100 years of age | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records | ||
| Personnel | Personnel | Pay and pension | Additional Voluntary Contributions (AVC) | See notes | When individual reaches 100 years of age | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records | ||
| Personnel | Personnel | Pay and pension | Payroll input forms | 6 | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records | |||
| Personnel | Personnel | Pay and pension | Bonus nominations | 6 | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records | |||
| Personnel | Personnel | Pay and pension | Complete sick absence record showing dates and causes of sick leave | See notes | When individual reaches 72 years of age | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records | ||
| Personnel | Personnel | Pay and pension | Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) forms | 6 | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records | |||
| Personnel | Personnel | Pay and pension | Papers relating to disciplinary action which has resulted in any changes to terms and conditions of service, salary, performance pay or allowances | See notes | When individual reaches 72 years of age | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records | ||
| Personnel | Personnel | Pay and pension | Authorisation for deputising, substitution allowance and/or overtime/travel time claim | 6 | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records | |||
| Personnel | Personnel | Pay and pension | Advances for Season tickets, Car parking, Bicycles, Christmas/holidays or Housing | 6 | After repayment | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records | ||
| Personnel | Personnel | Pay and pension | Hospitality registers | 7 | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records | |||
| Personnel | Personnel | Security | Welfare papers | 6 | After last action | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records | ||
| Personnel | Personnel | Security | Security personnel files - leaving before normal retirement age | 10 | After leaving | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records | ||
| Personnel | Personnel | Security | Security personnel files - leaving at normal retirement age | 5 | After leaving | Records Management retention scheduling: 2. Employee personnel records |