Tasks above your pay band

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Just wondering if anyone can help me here.
I joined NHS 4 years ago at a pay grade lower than I was on with a private company. Obviously got less money, but less responsibility too. Now my bosses are wanting me to carry out the tasks I used to do in community (I’m trained, would just need a refresher course) but staying on the same pay band. So out of the team of 3, all doing the same job, 2 would be a band higher. This specific task isn’t listed in my job description, but a vague, “any other tasks deemed appropriate by line manager” is.
I’m assuming my chances of getting anything extra are minimal!

In the NHS, pay bands are determined by job evaluation on 17 different factors. So if you genuinely are being asked to do exactly the same job as your colleagues, exact same job description, then you absolutely should be on the same pay grade as them. Take it up with your union/line manager/HR asap. In theory even if you do have a different JD to your colleagues, you can request to have the 'new' tasks added to your JD and have it submitted for re-evaluation, although expect this to take an age to grind through the bureaucratic process and it would be quite unusual for an addition in one factor/domain score to take a JD up a grade unless it was already borderline...

But, if you are simply being asked to do some of the same tasks as them, but they have other responsibilities at a higher level than you e.g. supervising or training others, managing a budget, medium/long term work planning then that would justify them being on a higher pay band than you. It's quite common for clinical roles for there to be e.g. Band 5s and 6s in the same team doing broadly speaking similar clinical tasks/seeing the same patients, but the 6s usually have a higher level qualification, have more experience and do more managerial/supervisory work. If you are able to say a bit more about what kind of work you do and the difference if any between your and your colleagues JDs without outing yourself I might be able to give more of an idea of whether the change could lead to an increase in banding (or you can look it up yourself on the NHS employers website, just google Agenda for Change job evaluation and it will come up)....