Job Evaluation and Matching

Almost all NHS jobs match a pre-existing national profile, this enables NHS employers to provide fair and equitable renumeration set against the Agenda for Change pay system. Comparing roles to profiles is called 'job matching' and is an important process for deciding the appropriate and fair banding of most jobs. Trained panels of job evaluators are required to match job descriptions and person specifications to one of the national profiles.

Arden & GEM provides a Job Evaluation and Matching service that assists clients to manage the ongoing complexity of health service jobs and career structures, along with the unique nature of the work undertaken by staff and the ever-present challenges such as service redesign, mergers and band rationalisation. Whether your organisation has issues with its capacity to undertake local job evaluations, or is planning major changes and re-organisations to your services and job functions/roles, we can provide the evaluation and matching expertise required to meet your goals.

We also provide clients with specialist consultancy such as auditing your existing job evaluation scheme or supporting departmental or organisational reviews of earnings and maximum bandings.

Our Job Evaluation and Matching service provides the capacity and skills required to ensure you follow process, deliver equity and mitigate risk. We provide:

• Desktop Agenda for Change evaluations and matching for new posts
• Consistency-checking all evaluations
• Timely and clear communication of job evaluation outcomes
• Support for your appeals management processes
• Transparent and auditable documentation to support the process
• Efficient completion of the process - within 15 working days receipt of a fully completed job description and person specification
• Bespoke services for high volume job evaluations.