2. Approximately how many full-time (Undergrad and post grad) students does your institution have?
3. Approximately how many part-time (Undergrad and post grad) students does your institution have?
4. How many PAID, qualified counsellors do you have in your team?
5. What provision is made for staff counselling in your institution?
6. If "Other" please give short description
Single session consultation with a counsellor
Organised by Personnel Department on an individual basis
See within the service by any of the counsellors but not by the
trainees; facility to refer into specified counsellors in the private
sector when it is not approprtie - eg, for members of Student Services
etc.
7. How many Full-time equivalent qualified counsellors do you have in your team?
1.3
3.1
4.2
1.4 FTE
4.2
4.1
2
4.0
4 FTE
4.6
4.7
three
1.5
6
96%
6.8
4.6
6
3
4
3 days a week term time only
6.2
3.
5
3.8
3
3.0
11.3
3
3.5
1+2 TTO
2
5
1.8
One
3.6
4.4
2.17
4.4
6
1.5
4.5
8. How many qualified but voluntary counsellors do you have in your team (sometimes called associates)?
9. How many placement trainees do you have working in the service?
10. What FTE level of administrative/support/reception/secretarial staff do you have in your service?
0.7
1.0
0.5
1 FTE
.5
1.75
0.8
.75
1 FTE
2.4
1.5
0.3
0.8
1
20%
1.5
1
1.8
0.9
1/4 share of 2 staff
none
1.37
1
1.5
1.0
1
full time receptionist, working 0.5 for us, 0.5 for wider service within which we belong
3.2
1
1
0%
1
.7
0.1 about half a day of Head of Student Services sec.
0
1
2
0.62
1.2
2
0.2
1.5
11. On how many different campus locations do you have counsellors working?
12. Where is your institution located?
13. Have you been through a Role Analysis exercise in your institution yet?
14. If "Yes", which system was used?
15. If "Other", what system was used?
Equate
The University accepted HERA without analysis
16. If you have been through such a process, have
you been advised or pressured to take on extra responsibilities/duties
to justify the new grade?
17. If "Yes", what are they?
in order to have post regraded:
evidence of cross institution strategic developments
enabling implementation of new legislation
working with teams wider than current team
18. If you have been through such a process, what
Grade descriptor is used for 1) Head of Service, 2) Senior Counsellor,
and 3) Main grade counsellors?
Officially we have no head, but the workload falls to the fulltime post holder
8,n/a,7
HoS - 10
Counselling Co-ordinator/Psychotherapist - 9
Counsellors - 8
Outcome not yet known
grade for all counsellors is grade 7
Head of Service on G grade academic related; main grade coounsellors on F grade academic-related
1) Level 8 MPA
2) Level 7 MPA
1. HOS grade 8
2. Counsellor Grade 7
Both in "Management and Specialist"
Not available as yet
Head of Service: Grade 11
Main grade counsellors: Grade 9
Specialist officer 1 for main grade counsellors -no senior or separate HOC
Process complete but salary bands have not yet been announced.
1) Level 6
3) Level 5
1.Head of Counselling
2.Deputy Head of Counselling
3.counsellor
Not known
counsellors 6/7
no senior counsellor role
1. Management, Professional & Administrative Level 5
2. Management, Professional & Administrative Level 4
3. Management, Professional & Administrative Level 4
UH9; old Principal Lecturer scale
UH9
UH8 old Senior Lecturer scale
all are academic posts with academic conditions of service including 4 weeks study leave
All on grade 9 of the new pay spine
AR3 for all
Scale 7 enhanced contribution for HoS
Scale 7 for main grade counsellors
Senior Couns = Grade 9; Main Grade = Grade 7
Business Development & Professional
1.7
2.no Senior Counsellor post
3.6
Have'nt used Grade descriptors
2)Senior Counsellor on Scale point
38--44
3)Counsellor on scale point 30-36
1&2) 7
3) 6
Not known
no outcome to Hera process as yet
Academic support staff Grade 6
Awaiting outcome
Head Grade G
student counsellor Grade F
Process not complete
not yet known
1 - Level 8
2. - Level 8
3 - Level 7
Main Grade (but see note, Q28): Level 5
Outcome not yet announced
19. If you have been through one of the
processes, broadly, how did main-grade counsellors (NOT Heads of
service or Senior Counsellors, see below)
20. For Heads of Service - how did you fare?
21. What is the bottom of the curent
full-time-equivalent pay range for main-grade counsellors in your
service inc. any area weighting?
22. What is the current top point for main grade counsellors (fte, inc any area weighting)
23. Do you have a Senior Counsellor - NOTE this
is separate from somone who is Head of Service but may have the title
"Senior Counsellor" - see below?
24. If applicable, what is the bottom of the
curent full-time-equivalent pay range for your Senior Counsellor inc.
any area weighting?
25. ... and what is the current top of the Senior Counsellor pay scale?
26. For the Head of Service (who may have the
title of Senior Counsellor, but has overall management responsibility
for the service), what is the bottom of their payscale?
27. ... and what is the top of the Head of Service payscale?
28. Please add any short comment you would like but keep it brief!
Grade descriptor question is not very user friendly. - better to separate into 3 separate questions
Are about to go through HERA process
All counsellors paid on same scale
Top of the scales are into contribution points, and so overlap with the next grade above
1) Although I personally am better off the scale of the post caps earnings below my current level.
We have been told that our main grade counsellors will be green
circled under Hera but the uni has not mapped out6 the salary scales as
yet.
We arrived at the above outcome after an appeal. Initial HERA
results downgraded main grade counsellors to Grade 8 and kept the Head
of Service post on Grade 10.
We do not have a senior and we have a Deputy Head of SStudent
Services who is not a counsellor and I have identifie her pay scale but
you may want to disregard it.
These are the provisional HERA bandings for counselling and have not yet been made public.
I hope that this information will be very sensitively handled at
the point where it is disseminated. Different rates of pay arouse
powerful, primitive anxieties.
1. on HERA I came out grade 6 but my manager altered my results so I remain grade 5
2. my deputy came out at grade 4 but has not been formally upgraded from his original grade 3.
We've undergone HERA role analysis but haven't yet received the
results so I've filled in questions 19 onwards, as requested in your
email to Pam, without having the correct information.I assume the
''current payscales'' refers to payscales follwing HERA analysis. I
have put in current payscales pre HERA as for the time being that's
what we're earning.
The Head and Senior posts are held by 2 people who were employed
pre-HAY and their original salary range is preserved as shown in
answers to Qs 24-27. Any future recruited post holders would not
automatically get that extended range. Technically they'd be on Head =
£30,606 to £39,935 and Senior £24,161 to £29,716 with the possibility
of being granted some higher responsibility pay levels. So these 2
posts (just like the counsellor posts) have all lost their higher
salary ceilings.
Head of Service post is new and as such was assessed in relation to scale above main counsellors.
Role analysis was done in such a 'light touch' way that it didn't
even come to the Service.We just got letters from Personnel saying it
had been looked at and salaries would stay the same.
this service is non representative as we also serve the local
f.e.college which has around 40,000 full and part time students plus
3000 or so staff
Just to be clear re Qs 4 and 7, there are 6 paid counsellors, but between them working 3.0 FTE.
Thanks
Sorry omit the answers to Q24 and 25.Senior Counsellor here is Head of Service.
The Uni accepted HERA without the analytical process.
Head of Counselling responsibility proposed to be temporarily
carried as additional paid duty by Head of Student Services, so no
specific Head of Service payscale currently in operation.
Our service employs 1.5 main grade counsellors. Our job description
makes us jointly reponsible for service management and development.
