Knowlege training and experience is the most heavily weighted dimension and should go hand in hand with Freedom to Act.
You would need a degree and post grad diploma or good experience in lieu of diploma to get a band 6. Usually about 5 years progressive experience and short courses.
Being a "specialist" with a budget and staff helps to boost your score. Allocating work to staff is good, providing technical supervision is better and having managerial responsibility for staff is the better still.
A newly qualified nurse with a degree would be a band 5. If you need a degree or similar to do the job, with little or no experience, then you should be around band 5.
As pointed out in an earlier post, It is not about the person, it's about the post. So if the post requires a degree then this is what should be in your job description and not the qualification you may have. Bear in mind that it is what would be expected for the post to be fully competent and fully operational, not the entry requirements for the job.
I think a lot of people have submitted recruitment job descriptions rather than a job description which describes the fully operational post.
It's all clearly documented in the NHS Job Evaluation Handbook Second Edition found here.
http://www.dh.gov.uk/PublicationsAndStat...&chk=jZS4ev
