Extra level of management

[tyler80]

The small department where I work is undergoing a restructure.

Currently myself and 3 other colleagues report directly to our manager who managers another team also.

The proposal is to introduce a team leader role and we would report to the team leader who would then report to the manager.

The team leader role will be filled by someone not currently within our team. We occasionally work with this person but they work at the same level.

Can a new post be created and filled like this with no recruitment process? (public sector organisations)

Don't know anything about public sector recruitment/new post processes I'm afraid. How do you know there's going to be no recruitment process? Where will they be getting this person from?

The role will be filled by someone from a different section. Their current post will cease to exist.

Well I have no specific knowledge of public sector organisations' policies however my general understanding of them means I would find it surprising that a public sector organisation could create a new role and appoint to it with no process at all.

I would expect your employer to have a pretty detailed recruitment policy outlining what internal vacancy arrangements usually are etc. Have you checked?

I expect they have it through redeployment if their current post is gone & they meet the essential criteria. That's how it worked in our recent restructure

The way it has worked in the past is in a situation where you will have 3 people and 3 posts with one post higher than the other, the person who gets the team leader post is chosen by interview, not just because their job disappeared elsewhere.

Myself and a colleague would both meet the essential criteria of this post, additionally our current job descriptions includes managing our own workload which would now become the responsibility of the team leader.