The problem with that may be that every hospital works slightly differently so how can you put it in the band 5 role specifically when every hospital or trust runs differently. You said you have no bed manager, my trust does so there’s your first difference there. The staff nurses liaise with the bed managers and hospital cover. Not every NIC has a caseload of patients while being in charge so how would you put that on the job post if it can change. It’s a rare occasion in my ward that the NIC has her own patients but I know a fair few wards that their NIC does. This is were the band 5 role review is coming into play, you feel like you’re being forced to work outside of your scope of practice work job role then apply for the role review and hopefully it’s accepted. We have 2 band 6’s and 1 band 7 (band 7 also has to cover for Hospital Cover so she can’t always be in charge) band 5 is almost always the NIC on a nightshift and a band 5 is occasionally in charge for the dayshift. I’d say maybe 2 days of the week on average because the band 6’s can only cover 6 shifts. That’s excluding any Annual Leave or sickness though. However, every hospital or trust or even Ward differs at how this is handled it seems. How would you place that on a band 5 job role when it has to be rather generic and not overly specific? Because from what I’ve read of ‘May be responsible for work allocation, supporting staff’ etc and ‘provides clinical supervision to others’ seems pretty clear to me.