Subsection 2: Recruitment.

General and specialist hospital assistants carry out diagnostic, care and preventive functions on a full-time or part-time basis or perform pharmaceutical or biological procedures within the establishment, under the authority of the head of the department or, failing this, the head of the department, functional unit or any other internal structure to which they report.

In order to ensure continuity of care, the organisation of medical, odontological and pharmaceutical presence time, established according to the specific characteristics of the different structures, is decided annually by the director of the establishment after consultation with the establishment's medical committee. A nominative duty roster, drawn up on this basis, is approved on a monthly basis by the director on the recommendation of the head of the department or, failing this, the head of the department, functional unit or any other internal structure to which the assistant reports.

The weekly working hours of full-time assistants are set at ten half-days per week, but may not exceed forty-eight hours per week, calculated as an average over a four-month period. When work is performed at night, it is counted as two half-days.

When medical activity is organised on a continuous basis, the practitioner's weekly service obligation is, by way of derogation from the above paragraph, calculated in hours, averaged over a period of four months, and may not exceed forty-eight hours. When they work part-time, the service obligation of assistants is set at five or six half-days per week or, in the context of a service organised on a continuous basis, at an hourly duration defined on the basis of forty-eight hours, in proportion to the practitioner's weekly service obligations and calculated on average over a period of four months.

Assistants may, on a voluntary basis, work additional hours over and above their weekly service obligations, giving rise either to recuperation or to compensation, under the conditions set out in 2° of article R. 6152-514.

They are entitled to a daily rest period of at least eleven consecutive hours per twenty-four hour period.

The practitioner is guaranteed a daily rest period after the end of the last journey made during an on-call period.

By way of derogation from the provisions of the previous paragraph, they may carry out a continuous period of work not exceeding twenty-four hours; in this case, they shall benefit, immediately at the end of this period, from a rest of an equivalent duration.

The time spent on site and the time spent travelling during an on-call period constitute actual working time and are taken into account when allocating the daily rest period.