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A Guide to the
National Job
Evaluation
Scheme
Briefing for employees
• Background
• The job evaluation scheme
• Next steps
Purpose of this session
• Single status agreement 1997
• Equal pay for work of equal
value
• National pay award 2004
Why we are doing job
evaluation
• Use of job description questionnaire
• Single joint review panel
• Quality checks
How the scores are
worked out
• Developed jointly by employers and
trades unions
• Designed to be applied up to scp 49 (ie
band E)
• Covers full range of local authority jobs
• Small and large councils
The NJC job evaluation
scheme
• Technical, specialist, procedural and
organisational
• Breadth and depth
• Qualifications and experience
• Link to person specifications
• 8 levels – 20 points per level
Factor 1 - Knowledge
• Analytical, problem solving and
judgemental skills
• Nature of problems
• Nature of information
• Development of plans/strategies
• 6 levels – 13 points per level
Factor 2 – Mental Skills
• All types of communication and caring
skills
• Purpose to which skills are put
• Complexity and contentiousness
• Nature of audience
• 6 levels – 13 points per level
Factor 3 – Interpersonal
and Communication Skills
• Dexterity and co-ordination
• Precision and speed
• Driving and keyboard skills
• Consequences of error
• 5 levels – 13 points per level
Factor 4 – Physical
Skills
• Discretion and decision making
• Unexpected and unanticipated
problems
• Organisation of workload
• Proximity to manager
• 8 levels – 13 points per level
Factor 5 – Initiative and
Independence
• Degree of effort and frequency of
demand
• Working in a constrained position
• Recognised breaks
• Weights applied consistently
• 5 levels – 10 points per level
Factor 6 – Physical
Demands
• Mental and sensory attention
• Enhanced and concentrated
• Frequency of demands
• Work-related pressure
• 5 levels – 10 points per level
Factor 7 – Mental
Demands
• Behaviour or circumstances
• Frequency and intensity
• Requirement to respond
• Excludes verbal abuse
• 5 levels – 10 points per level
Factor 8 – Emotional
Demands
• Direct impact on well-being of others
• Assessment of needs/implementing
regulations
• Beneficiaries of our activities
• Advice, guidance and policy development
• 6 levels – 13 points per level
Factor 9 – Responsibility
for people
• Supervision, co-ordination or
management
• Performance Reviews
• Areas of activity
• Advice, guidance and policy
development
• 6 levels – 13 points per level
Factor 10 – Responsibility
for Supervision
• Cash, cheques, invoices, budgets
• Expenditure or income
• Accounting v accountable
• Advice, guidance and policy
development
• 6 levels – 13 points per level
Factor 11 – Responsibility
for Financial Resources
• Information, equipment, land, buildings,
stocks and supplies
• Expensive and very expensive equipment
• Security of buildings
• Advice, guidance and policy development
• 6 levels – 13 points per level
Factor 12 – Responsibility
for Physical Resources
• Environmental conditions and peoplerelated behaviour
• Disagreeable, unpleasant, hazardous
• Working outdoors
• Other employees
• 5 levels – 10 points per level
Factor 13 – Working
Conditions
• JE Manual
• Big issues – ask a question
• Job evaluation hotline
• School JE Contact
• Line manager
• Trade union representative
• HR team
Support available to you
• Update job descriptions and person
specifications
• Undertake an extensive job-matching process
to ensure that all school-based employees,
who undertake similar roles are evaluated
together
• Evaluate all the identified job roles
• Appeals
• Evaluations of previous roles for back pay
purposes
Next steps