Submit a job description for review

Make sure you complete these steps to avoid delays to the review process:

• Is the job description finalised, with no track-changes, draft watermark or comments?
• Does it include information about existing consultant staff, such as names, qualifications, PAs or FT/PT status?
• Are office accommodation and secretarial support confirmed?
• Is the job plan in line with the 8.5 DCC/1.5 SPA minimum split?
• Has the maths in the job plan been double-checked?
• Is a person specification included?
• For clinical oncology, is the estimated number of new patient referrals for the post included?

Send your job description documents to [email protected] to begin the job description review process.

Approval is valid for a 12-month period. You can advertise (and re-advertise) the role for 12 months following receipt of the approval email from the RCR. 

If the approval expires, the job description will need to be re-approved. 

• Resubmit the job description and include the previous RCR JD reference number 
• If there have been no changes to the job description, please confirm this in your email
• If the job description has changed, indicate what the changes are and on which pages.

Following these steps will make the re-approval process as efficient as possible.

If there are major changes to a job description or if it is rewritten after approval, it will need to be reviewed again. This includes changes to the PAs/job plan, or if the FT/LTFT status changes. You will need to resubmit the job description to [email protected] with the previous RCR JD reference number.

The job description does not need to be reviewed again if there are only minor updates, such as changes of current staff and equipment. Please send an updated copy of the JD to the AAC team for our records, indicating the JD reference number. 

If you are not sure whether the changes are minor, the AAC team can help. Email questions to [email protected] .