What are national profiles?
National profiles broadly describe the various components of NHS jobs and are used to make the process of assigning staff to one of the new pay bands as straightforward as possible. Profiles work on the premise that there are posts in the NHS which are fairly standard and which have many common features. Indeed one of the benefits of job evaluation is that it uses a common language and a common set of terms to describe all jobs. Job evaluation is about highlighting similarities between jobs via common language and measurement.
