Job families
In Autumn 2010 we started rolling out our job families. There are 17 job families and we've created them to help improve the structure and flexibility of the council. They will also help you find opportunities to develop your career and to help with planning for the future.Each job belongs to a job family if it was part of single status implementation,
What is a job family?
A job family is a group of jobs with common features. Each job family contains a number of levels, each reflecting different job outputs, skills, knowledge and experience.
Although the level of responsibility, skill or competence required to do the work may be different, the essential nature of the activities carried out and basic skills used are similar. The number of levels will vary for each job family depending on the scope and range of responsibilities. Each of the levels in a job family corresponds to a grade and each has a role profile.
There are many benefits for developing job families, these include:
providing a career development framework - especially when linked to competencies
improving the way we describe jobs and measure results
providing a clear transparent approach to roles
helping us modernise the way we work
simplifying the job evaluation process
helping us ensure consistency and equity in pay across the council
supporting workforce development
Each of our 17 job families has a Job Family Lead (JFL) who will provide professional leadership for the family. The JFLs have been involved in the development of their own family and allocation of jobs to it.
Role profiles
These describe the typical responsibilities, knowledge, skills and experience required of jobs at a particular level in a job family. Each level within a family equates to one of the new grades in the Pay and Grading structure. The role profile explains the purpose of the roles within the grade and what is expected of a person at that grade, if they are to do a good job.
When we implement your job family we'll let you know which job family your job is in. We'll send you your role profile and ask you to agree job objectives with your manager.
Job families and role profiles do not mean changes to your terms and conditions of employment such as base location or working patterns. Nor does it mean your manager or the work you do will change. But you may belong in one family and your manager in another. We will also simplify some job titles as part of the move to job families.
Job and person profiles
As we implement each job family, any vacancies within the family will be advertised in future using job and person profiles. These will be used only during recruitment to inform applicants about a vacancy. They will describe key result areas rather than detailed tasks and will incorporate relevant information from the existing job description, person specification (where up to date) and job family role profile.
See related documents for our job families, job family leads, and a diagram of how job families can help us modernise the way we work.
If you would like to discuss this or have any questions please contact your line manager or departmental HR Officer
Related documents
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