Acting up policy and procedure

Find out more about employees taking on higher-graded responsibilities.

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Key points

  • This policy applies when an employee undertakes the duties and responsibilities of a higher-graded post for a continuous period of at least 4 weeks.
  • Acting up is appropriate in situations where short-term cover of a more senior post is required, e.g. sickness absence, maternity/adoption leave, pending recruitment of a replacement.
  • Acting-up arrangements should normally be for a minimum period of 4 weeks to 3 months and should never be longer than 6 months without conducting a full review and obtaining further approval from the grandparent line manager.
  • A fair and transparent process will be applied to selection decisions for acting up.
  • Managers should ensure they have objective evidence to support their selection decision.
  • Where an acting-up post is subsequently established as permanent, the job will be advertised in line with the prevailing recruitment policy.
Published
31 January 2019
Latest update
31 January 2019
  1. 31 January 2019
    First published