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Charlotte Collings

Charlotte Collings

Lead nurse for safe staffing and workforce at Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust and chair of the RCN Eastern Board.

Sep 4, 2026

20:06
So if I can just come to you, Charlotte, is this normal, for want of a better word, for a Band 5 job advertisement? What should a Band 5 job advert actually look like?
20:16
Absolutely not.
20:17
So a band five, that's an entry level role.
20:21
So you acquire all the skills, knowledge and experience through your university qualification in order to fulfil the role of a band five.
20:30
If there's any stipulation to say you need experience in this, a qualification in that, then probably the role is not a band five and it's likely creeping into band six or even band seven sometimes.
20:42
So there's a lot of focus on this at the moment through the job evaluation process.
20:47
So NHS England have released details about how organisations need to now conduct a job evaluation on all of the band five roles, make sure that they are correctly within that band five scope.

9 MINS LATER

30:20
Does that ring true with you, Charlotte? Have you had applications that you thought, oh, AI has been involved here?

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