Job evaluations back underway
by Bernard Harbor
 
A dedicated assessment team has been appointed to clear the backlog of cases where assessments had taken place but results had not been issued.
A dedicated assessment team has been appointed to clear the backlog of cases where assessments had taken place but results had not been issued.

The health service job evaluation scheme formally re-opened on 22nd September. It had been suspended since March because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

 

Fórsa said scheduled appointments for remote interfaces with applicants were now being sent out to those whose March and April appointments had been cancelled.

 

A dedicated assessment team has been appointed to clear the backlog of cases where assessments had taken place but results had not been issued.

 

Staff had been reassigned from the job evaluation unit at the height of the Covid emergency. So the directors of the scheme intend to put a desktop assessment process in place to help get through the backlog.

 

The scheme was reinstated for clerical and administrative staff in late 2016 on foot of a successful Fórsa campaign.

 

Hundreds of assessments have since been carried out, and a substantial proportion has led to regradings of posts.

 

The scheme is currently open to staff at grades III to VI, and analogous grades. The union is campaigning to extend it to health professional grades and more senior admin and management posts.

 

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