Job planning

This guidance highlights the benefits of effective preparation for consultants and managers and covers objective setting, information gathering and some of the supporting resources which may be required, as well as detailing some of the current contractual provisions relevant to parts of the job plan.

A lot of energy and resources are put into job planning by both consultants and their employers. Read our suggestions that can help to make it a productive process.

Are you setting your objectives and creating your job plan? If so, this guidance from the Central Consultants and Specialists Committee will help you.

Sample job plans and model workload documents for consultants.

Guidance from the Central Consultants and Specialists Committee guidance on whether lunch breaks can be included in programmed activity time in the 2003 contract.

A job planning and workload diary using the agreed BMA and DH codes for job planning to support the 2003 consultant contract.

The position of the Central Consultants and Specialists Committee on on-call availability supplements and the 2003 consultant contract.

Guidance from the Central Consultants and Specialists Committee on the status of domiciliary visits under the 2003 contract.

These standards of best practice are designed to apply to medical and dental consultants employed by the NHS in England.

Guidance to help doctors involved in job planning understand the unique role of the consultant pathologist