Thanks for the reply.
I am sorry to hear about your situation. ‘Offsite handover’ is indeed the phrase that was used, but I couldn’t remember at the time of writing.
They were quite evasive about how it works and even admitted that they don’t like to do it. I guess I will just have to raise it as early as possible and try to get things in place. Or just apply for appointee-ship. Sad really.