Part 1: Health Service in England: Integration, Collaboration and Other Changes Integrated Care Boards Schedule 2: Integrated care boards: constitution etc. Staff
Under paragraph (18), the integrated care board can appoint employees. The integrated care board may determine the terms and conditions of employment, including details concerning remuneration, and make payments to employees in relation to pensions, allowances or gratuities.
	Under paragraph (19), an integrated care board may arrange for individuals to be seconded to it to serve as a member of staff (sub-paragraph (1)). This should not affect the continuity of a person’s employment with the employer from whom they are seconded (sub-paragraph (2)). Secondees may exercise functions of the integrated care board as covered by paragraphs 11 and 18 of the Schedule (sub-paragraph (3)). For the purposes of paragraph 7(2) (the requirement for the chief executive to be an employee) secondees acting as a chair of the integrated care board may be considered an employee if they are a Civil Servant or employed by any of the following bodies: NHS England, an English NHS Trust, an NHS Foundation Trust, an English Special Health Authority, the Care Quality Commissioning, the Health and Social Care Information Centre, the Health Services Safety Investigations Body, the Human Tissue Authority, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority or NICE (sub-paragraph (4)). Regulations may amend the paragraph to provide that other references in the NHS Act 2006 to an employee of an integrated care board also includes persons seconded and also may amend the description of persons who covered by the paragraphs (sub-paragraph (5)). Such regulations would be subject to the draft affirmative procedure.