Agenda for Change
General
Agenda for Change encompasses a new pay system throughout the HSC for all staff excluding doctors and senior executives.
The new system will offer:
- Greater scope to create new kinds of jobs, bringing more patient-centred care and more varied and stimulated roles for HSC staff
- Fairer pay
- Harmonised conditions of service for HSC staff
- A more transparent system of rewards for staff who work flexibly outside normal working hours
- Better links between career and pay progression
Strategic Change Unit is progressing these issues looking at local requirements and is working closely with Boards and Trusts to ensure that new pay structure reflects the work of HSC staff. The new pay structure will apply to all directly employed HSC staff except doctors and senior executives. Agreement has recently been reached with NIPSA to include Social Services Staff in these structures.
Implementation
Implementation of the new pay structure, following consultation and agreement, will initially be introduced in some pilot sites in England during 2003 to help ensure that the systems are robust and adequately tested for national roll-out. Following successful piloting, it will be implemented across the HSC from October 2004.
Job evaluation is being carried out to help decide on basic pay rates and detailed assessment will determine the correct pay band for each post. Many posts have already been evaluated.
Publications
- Agenda For Change - What will it mean for you? A Guide for Staff (PDF 53 KB)
- Agenda For Change - Social Services Information Gathering Exercise For Unqualified Residential Child Care Social Workers And Social Work Assistants (PDF 107 KB)
- Agenda For Change Information Gathering Exercise - Unqualified Residential Childcare Social Workers Currently Employed By HPSS (PDF 126 KB)
- Agenda For Change For Social Service Staff Within The HPSS (PDF 138 KB)
- Agenda For Change Questionnaire - Analysis Of Social Work Assistant Workforce (PDF 120 KB)
- Agenda for Change - Final Documentation (PDF 104 KB)
- Agenda for Change - Review Document (PDF 162 KB)
- Agenda for Change - Proposed Agreement (PDF 425 KB)
- Joint Statement from the DHSSPS, HPSS Employers and Trade Unions on the Agenda for Change (PDF 65 KB)
- Job Evaluation Handbook (PDF 535 KB)
- Letter to NHS/HPSS Staff Developing Better Services Additional Information (PDF 12 KB)
- Proposed Agreement on Modern Pay and Conditions for NHS Staff (PDF 193 KB)
- The New Pay System (PDF 39 KB)
