It is the responsibility of the Job Evaluation Group (JEG) to manage and maintain the national job profiles. JEG is a subgroup of the NHS Staff Council and consists of representatives of both the NHS trade unions and NHS organisations, including NHS Employers.
JEG has an ongoing commitment to review and refresh national profiles where necessary to ensure they are up-to-date and fit for purpose. This can entail:
- making minor changes to existing profiles, or
- drafting new profiles where necessary, or
- undertaking a full review of the profiles in an occupational group.
1. For minor changes to existing profiles
Local job evaluation leads or other stakeholders from within the service can use this request form to ask JEG to correct errors (for example, typing errors or incorrect numbering) in profiles or to consider amendment or revision of existing profiles, including:
- where the qualifications have been superseded by different ones
- where the wording in the profile makes it difficult to match
- where the profile refers to practices no longer relevant
- where there are gaps in the rationales used to illustrate the factor level given
- where there are mistakes in the bold statements, rationales or factor levels
- where the wording for a factor requires more clarity or explanation.
You will be asked to provide details to the following questions:
- Your name
- Your job title
- Your organisation
- Your contact details (email address)
- About the profile(s) you are reporting
- Which job family is it (are they) in?
- What is its label(s)?
Please be as specific as possible in your responses to the following questions:
- What do you consider to be wrong on the profile (cut and paste text from the profiles if possible)?
- What needs to be done to correct the problem? (please suggest wording if you are able to)
- What evidence can you provide to back up this request?
- Please detail the discussions you have had locally about this issue (e.g. feedback from job matching panels)
Notifying us about errors
Complete this form to notify us of any errors. Once received, this information will be reviewed by the NHS Job Evaluation Group at their next profile sub-group meeting. These meetings are usually held monthly so please be patient as you wait for a response. The Job Evaluation Group reserves the right to escalate requests to the NHS Staff Council Executive.
2. Requests for new profiles
In exceptional circumstances JEG can accept requests for new national profiles from professional or other bodies representing occupational groups, email jobevaluation@nhsemployers.org with full details of your request. Please include evidence to support your request, for example job descriptions and/or JAQs for the roles in question showing that they cannot match to any existing profiles. It would also be helpful for you to detail the impact the perceived lack of profiles is having and the scope of the workforce affected.
3. Requests to undertake a full review of the profiles in an occupational group
Stakeholder bodies (i.e. professional or other bodies representing occupational groups) wishing to request the revision of a full suite of profiles for an occupational group should also email jobevaluation@nhsemployers.org with full details and evidence to support your request.
