Posts - Post Funding

Initial As-Is Discussion

NB: to be validated for non-London local offices

General

• Post funding is related to site - 
• multiple sites for a single post implies multiple finding sources
• The funding is split by time and site
• It’s very important to link old and new posts for traceability
• Editing posts relating to funding is also important
• Needs to be a difference between trainee related funding and post related funding

New Challenges

Suspension of Training

• Where there has been a quality concern a training site (or multiple) may need to close
• where there is a major concern, the site is shut down for training, trainees need to be re-housed
• where there is a minor concern and the trainee can be moved within the same trust, the post is just edited to reflect a new or other minor detail
• Process currently involves 3 steps
• 1- indicate post is suspended (i.e. inactive)
• 2 - create temporary post within a new trust
• 3 - finance team apply full salary re-charge
• Problems occur when the temp post is left indefinitely or for longer than 2-3 years - a solution would be to apply limits relating to severity of a case which then reminds admins to review the temp post
• Ian Bateman would be best placed to advise on whether this would be a good move

Post Funding Administration

• too many users are able to manage posts and post funding currently, which creates errors

Funding Algorithm

• funding allocation directly relates to funding type
• tariff (HEE)
• MADEL (Dental)
• Trust
• Other - includes salary re-charges, there is potentially regional variation in how this is applied
  
  

Slot Shares

• needs to account for job sharing by allocation %

Trainee in Difficulty

• will need special funding

Recommendations for TIS

MVP: for post funding, the agreed approach is to record the post funding type (as detailed in the Funding Algorithm)