Appraisals at LUHFT

Appraisals at LUHFT

Here at LUHFT, we want to ensure that ALL colleagues experience a quality, meaningful and valuable appraisal conversation. The appraisals options have been designed to help ALL colleagues to feel valued, supported and clear on goals and contribution.

There are now 2 different options and processes for Appraisers to choose from when deciding how to deliver the best possible appraisal experience for colleagues within your team or department.

Depending on the structure within your team or the varying roles that colleagues do, by using one of the options below, you will now be able to deliver the appraisal that fits best.

LUHFT Appraisals - Your Options!

When planning your appraisal conversations, you can now choose from the following options:

1. The Standard One to One Appraisal Conversation (one version for People Managers and one version for Non-People Managers)

2. The New Starter Welcome Appraisal Conversation

These options are there to support you to have quality and meaningful conversations.  Ultimately, all colleagues need to feel valued during the appraisal process and be clear on the ask of them for the coming year.

If you want to learn more about how the options work, or access the templates, short guidance and resources to support you, they are now available by clicking on the links below:

Recording on ESR - Updated Guidance

The different appraisal templates are now available for selection when recording appraisals on ESR.

When 287 is entered into the template field, the available templates to select will pop up as follows:

To view the fully up to date guidance and support for recording appraisals on ESR, please click here.

The Large Department Appraisal Approach

This option will only apply to you:

• If your team or department has more than 20 colleagues
• You have a lower number of Appraisers available
• Shared department level objectives are suitable to use  

The benefit of this approach is to manage high volume as single appraisers can use time in existing meetings to fast track a larger group of colleagues into shared goals that are a priority for the department. 

This group discussion is followed up with a shorter one to one conversation with individual colleagues to discuss wellbeing and to help them to feel valued.

If you are interested in utilising the large department approach for your appraisals, please reach out to organisational.development@liverpoolft.nhs.uk

Further Support:

• Need help recording appraisals on ESR? - Click here
• ESR FAQ's- Click here
• General Appraisals FAQ's - Click here
• Pay Progression FAQ's - Click here

For further support or information on Appraisals and Pay Progression in ESR - Click here

Need to contact us? Get in touch at organisational.development@liverpoolft.nhs.uk

*Please note, these appraisal options do not apply to Medics/Doctors and Dentists who currently use the L2P system for their appraisal and revalidation. The current process and method for appraisal for these colleagues will remain unchanged*