Nhs Jobs And Banding

[Greedyfly]

Hello

Is anyone here a budget holder for the NHS?

I was wondering what the process was if an employee requested a banding review and it was accepted (band higher) what happens re the departments budget to fund this change?

Thanks

GF

[woofgang]

Retired 10 years ago but when I was there NOTHING happened to the budget. We were expected to fund the increased salary out of the existing budget BUT as managers, we had the option to look at what the staff member was doing that merited the scale change and remove those items from her/his job. back pay may have been payable to cover the time when the employee had been doing the higher rated activities. I am presuming those higher grade activities aren’t in the job description because the JD will have been banded either at changeover around 12 years ago, or at JD review or when the person was employed and the job was advertised? Shout if you want more info.

[Greedyfly]

Cheers Woofgang, I suspected as much.

[woofgang]

you are welcome.

[woofgang]

additionally, I have just thought of this, if management didn’t support the banding appeal, it was unusual, at least in my service, for it to get to appeal stage because the manager had to be told and at that point if there had been accidental job drift away from the job description, it would be quickly stopped. In practice of course, the staff member had often discussed the issue with their line manager before doing anything formally and it would be a foolish manger who allowed a valid appeal, which they did not support, to go ahead. In certain circumstances also, its quite legit to allow (but not insist) someone who is at the top of their band, to take on certain tasks and responsibilities of the next band up as a development opportunity on the strict understanding that this is not a legitimate argument to put forward at banding review and that the arrangement is severely time limited.