Following local meetings of members, I write to give some clarification on certain points.
 

All APT/STs will in 2003 have the choice of being placed on the Chartered Teacher Scale or entering the job sizing exercise and being placed on the PT scale at a point determined by job sizing. 

All duties currently done by APT/STs will continue to be done by them until August 2003.

After August 2003 and job sizing, chartered teachers (including former APT/STs) will have no specific management function beyond that of a teacher.  All PT, DHT and HTs will have duties based on job sizing.  Job sizing exercise will cover all management functions and will result in the allocation of all of these functions to a PT/DHT/HT.

PTs, DHTs and HTs will enter the job sizing exercise and be placed on a scale point accordingly.

For those appointed prior to 1 April 2001, if this point is lower than their salary level at August 2003 full conservation will apply.

The single column "New Pay Range" on pages 11 and 13 applies to posts which have been job sized.  The final column of the assimilation tables on pages 11 and 12 apply to conserved posts only.

Promoted staff who are already conserved will continue to be so and will assimilate as per their current conserved post level.

Promoted staff appointed after 1 April 2001, whose salary level is later downgraded will be entitled to cash conservation for up to three years.  If, within that three-year period, the new salary band overtakes the conserved salary, the teacher will move on to the higher band.  If not, the teacher moves to the new (lower) salary after three years.

It should be noted that the PT pay scale shown at the foot of page 13 refers only to those PTs who, at 1 August 2003, are conserved.

DAVID EAGLESHAM
General Secretary
 

26 January 2001