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Appraiser notes


Messages


Post appraisal (ORSA) feedback


Appraisal meetings


Appraiser Notes

While you are viewing an appraisee's appraisal you can make notes on certain items and the appraisal by using the Appraiser Notes function. You can use Appraiser Notes to make personal annotations and share notes, tips and advice with your Appraisee.


You can add notes on the appraisal as a whole as well as individual items. This can be found on the home screen of the appraisees appraisal.


Private notesShared notes

These notes are personal to you. You should use them to make personal annotations when reviewing the appraisal evidence.

Nothing you write as a Private Note will be visible to anyone else in the appraisal process, even after the appraisal is completed.

These notes are visible to your appraisee at all times. As soon as you add the note, it is published to the appraisee so they can read it and begin preparing to make any necessary changes

If you revert the appraisal status to "entering evidence", the notes will stay visible so the appraisee can read them when editing their evidence.

Once the appraisal is completed anyone with the correct permissions (some Administrators, the Responsible Officer, future Appraisers etc) will be able to view these notes.

You can add a note to a whole section of the appraisal or against individual items.

Adding Notes

To add a Section Note


 



  • Enter your personal annotations into the “Private Notes” text box, and any shared notes into the “Shared Notes” text box
  • Click  


To add a note to an individual item:

Viewing/Editing Appraiser Notes

To view/edit a note:


Deleting Appraiser Notes

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Messages

To access your inbox:

Click “Messages” in your top menu bar

New, unread messages are highlighted in bold text

Old messages you have already read are in regular font.

 

Actions

To read a message:

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Post appraisal (ORSA) feedback

Once you have completed the appraisal, your Organisation may require you to complete a feedback questionnaire to allow them to adjust their appraisal process according to the thoughts of their members.   

If ORSA questionnaires have been enabled by your organisation you will be prompted to complete it after signing off the appraisal.

The questions focus on:

Choose an answer for each question and click 

There are four pages to complete. Once you have answered all of the questions, click .

Click here to see the questions you will be asked.

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Appraisal meetings

We have updated our appointments feature and added new, easy to use, functionality to afford you greater control over booking your meetings.

Appointments have been renamed “Appraisal Meetings” and you can now make slots available to your appraisees according to time and date.

To add your availability

 

  • Click 
  • Click 





You can make each slot available to all of your appraisees, or choose individual appraisees to offer the slot to.

  • Click “All appraisees”

Or

  • Click “Selected appraisees” and choose which appraisees to make the appointment available to
  • Add any notes into the text box

  • Click 


You can also access this section by clicking 'Appraisal Meetings' in the top blue menu then  in the left navigation bar and following the steps above.

To view your upcoming appointments

You can now export your booked appraisal meetings to your external calendars, including outlook and google:



  • Click to view the meeting
  • Click  the top right corner of the page.
  • Select the calendar you want to export your meeting to

Please note: If your meeting changes date/time/location in Appraisal Toolkit for Nurses, the changes will not be carried through to your external calendar.



To view a list of Appraisees that have not yet made an appointment

 

You can send a reminder to Appraisees that have yet to book a time slot for their appraisal meeting. Simply:

To view your past appointments

Managing your appointments


 


  • You will receive an alert on your homepage if you have an appraisal due within the next 4 weeks and the Appraisee has not yet booked an appointment. You can send a reminder to them straight from your homepage by clicking 
  • Your appraisees can request you to create more meeting slots if all of your open slots are booked. You will receive an alert on your homepage. Click to open more for them.


Changing Meeting Details

If an appraisal meeting has been booked, you can suggest a new time or location for to your Appraisee:

Or

 

 

Click  


Your appraisee can accept or reject these changes. If they reject them they can suggest their own adjustments which you can accept or reject.  

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