EBME Forums Forums Management Professional Issues Agenda For Change Curious is AFC a step forward?

Paul, looking at the AFC handbook it states that the second gateway is fixed depending on band but the first gateway occurs twelve months after you start depending on which point you start on. It could be that this was just for the transition period, but it certainly seems that there's clauses there to permit starting above the bottom point.

The problem I see with AFC is that it wasn't really designed for anything other than the nursing profession. When you try to apply it to anything else you just get a complete mess! It seem that everybody isn't singing from the same hymn sheet and implementation of AFC to ebme jobs differs slightly between trusts.

Ps. Mark if the experience you've gained in private sector was relivant to NHS work I can't see you'd be disadvantaged. That is unless your original MTO3 post had been rebanded lower on the new band and if you'd stayed in the NHS you'd have been on protected pay.