NHS banding

[Madge55]

I am a nurse specialist with a specialist practice qualification and aprescriber. I applied for and got a band 6 about 6 years ago. A male colleague joined a year or so later and was in the same position. The NHS trust I worked for then employed 2 further band 6s to our team. Neither of the new recruits had the specialist practice or prescribers just an agreement to do complete them over the coming years. There were obvious discrepancies in the working practices of my male colleague and I as we had our own caseloads and were band 7s in everything but name, this matched the roles of our other permanent band 7 colleagues. Eventually the trust 'found money's and created 2 temporary band 7s which this other male band 6 and I applied for and got . This has dragged on for the last 2 years with varying amounts of months being extended.
This is essentially the situation in a nutshell. My query is this is it possible to appeal for the years where we were, as I see it , discriminated against, while paid a band 6 with 2 colleagues paid on the same scale but no matching qualifications.

My understanding (which is not great, but I've know a couple of people over the years with this sort of issue) is that the crucial point is that the banding refers to the post (so the official job description), not the person. You can be very highly qualified and skilled but that's not relevant if your job description doesn't match this.

If you feel that your job description would have matched band 7 under AfC then you can ask for it to be considered for re-banding and if that succeeds then you can claim back pay.

I think though, again it's the official job description that's important - you may have been working above and beyond, but if it's not on paper then it doesn't count.

Thanks sleepy head. Just needed clarification on this.

I agree with Sleepyhead