Job profiles

The NHS Job Evaluation scheme enables most NHS jobs to be matched to nationally evaluated profiles, based on information from job descriptions, person specifications and additional information.

National job profiles also provide a framework to check the consistency of local evaluations.

Using national job profiles

Profiles work on the basis that there are posts in the NHS which are standard and have many common features. The job evaluation scheme uses a common language and a common set of terms to describe all jobs. It uses these to highlight similarities between jobs.

Profiles apply these principles to particular job groups, for example administrative services or health science services.