§ Lord Clement-Jonesasked Her Majesty's Government:
What progress is being made with the job evaluation exercise carried out for the purposes of Agenda For Change in respect of the professions allied to medicine. [HL2512]
§ Baroness AndrewsJob evaluation is being used to compare job demands across a wide range of National Health Service jobs and match common NHS jobs with the pay bands in the proposed new NHS pay structure. We and staff organisations have developed a number of nationally agreed profiles to reduce the need for local NHS organisations to carry out individual job evaluations when the new pay system is introduced (subject to the outcome of staff organisations' consultations).
Eighteen profiles for allied health professional jobs have already been agreed and published. Further profiles are currently being discussed to ensure that a wide range of allied health professional jobs are covered.
§ Lord Clement-Jonesasked Her Majesty's Government:
To what use the results of the job evaluation exercise being carried out for the purposes of Agenda For Change will be put. [HL2513]
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§ Baroness AndrewsUnder the proposed agreement for a new National Health Service pay system, a new NHS job evaluation scheme will be used as the basis for measuring the relative weight of NHS jobs and allocating them to pay bands. The scheme is currently being used to evaluate a number of the most common NHS jobs and help produce national profiles for these jobs. Subject to ratification of the proposed agreement following consultation, these profiles will be used to help match individual posts to the pay bands in the new pay structure.