Temporary Workers-Admin and Clerical

Admin and Clerical agency staff are normally lower grade individuals who are actually filling in for a role within the organisational structure and are ideally used on a short term basis:

-  normally engaged on an ad hoc or temporary basis to fulfil requirements within established posts.

-  involves providing cover (eg for a vacancy, holiday or sickness) or additional resource (eg for a seasonal peak in workload).

-  may be undertaking operational or professional roles.

Interim Managers

Interims are normally middle- to senior-grade staff working in an organisation, concerned with the fulfilment of particular professional functional or senior management positions within the organisational structure (usually covering Business-as-Usual activities or providing cover for a role) and ideally engaged on a short term basis.

-  may involve providing cover (eg for a vacancy, holiday or sickness) or additional resource (eg for a new team until someone is recruited, or a seasonal peak in workload).

-  may include Professional Interim Staff (eg senior qualified professionals in areas such as legal, finance, audit) and Interim Managers (including up to the most senior levels of the organisation).

-  likely to include a degree of organisational involvement (eg managing staff, representation at meetings).

-  typically engaged through an agency although in some cases may be engaged directly.

Specialist Contractors

Specialists are normally middle to senior grades, used to provide expertise that is not available in-house, fulfilling functional or senior positions within the organisational structure and ideally engaged on a short term basis.

-  may include sub-categories of Finance, HR, IT, Legal, Logistics, Marketing, Medical, Procurement, Estates, Technical and Other.

-  not staff substitution; specialists are used to provide additional resource, skills and expertise, not to cover vacancies etc.

-  should not include management functions or similar organisational involvement.

-  usually involved in a defined package of work or project rather than covering a day-to-day workload or defined job/ role.

-  in some instances, may include a degree of organisational involvement (eg managing staff, representation at meetings).

-  Not always provided through an agency.