Advertising new posts

[wossupthen]

I'm unsure of the rules around this - thought I did know but...if an internal promotion in the NHS is made, should it be advertised -or at least discussed before someone just announces they have it?? It seems to be an entirely new job, created just for one person, but should everyone have been told?
I'm confused as a colleague has told the world they have this new post without any of the rest of us (smallish team) knowing anything about it!

NHS have quite strict recruitment policies, and usually rules about jobs going to redeployment before advertising. It may depend a bit whether this is an entirely new role or whether it’s a change of job responsibilities within their current post.
if an entire new post, I believe it should be advertised & if it hasn’t been I guess you could raise it with HR recruitment.
did you want to interview for it?

Thanks . No not at all. Were just all very baffled that a colleague has suddenly announced they have been promoted to a role nobody had heard of and nobody discussed!

That does sound a bit weird. Have you asked about the interview?

There wasn't one!!

Get your trade union rep involved.

I will delve more. Seems the post was especially made for the person who asked for it (if that makes sense). We just suddenly saw a new job title on the emails and the person telling everyone the title...and that's it!

Is it a promotion as in up a band, or is it same band , different/more specific role? That might account for it, but then I would want to know where their previous workload was being distributed.

I'd be very interested in any pay rise too as its all been done so sneakily. We have brought up with management and have had a vague explanation about them wanting to do extra stuff on top of what they're doing and asking for a new job title....