You can express interest in becoming as assessor at any time via the form on our specialty expert roles page. Please check you meet the requirements for the job description. If your application is successful, you’ll join the bank of assessors for the STP Final Year Assessment. Before each sitting of the assessment, we’ll ask all assessors for their availability to assess. If you are available for the sitting, please respond. We use your responses to develop the schedule for the assessment to make the best use of your time as assessors.
You don’t need to be available for the next sitting of the assessment. We’ll get in touch beforehand to check your availability for each sitting. We would, however, recommend you make a note of the dates of the sittings and try to hold that time as we can’t run the assessment without assessors.
If you meet the requirements to be an assessor, you can express interest in joining the bank for the STP Final Year Assessment. You don’t need to be available for the next sitting of the assessment. We’ll get in touch beforehand to check your availability. We would, however, recommend you make a note of the dates of the sittings and try to hold that time as we can’t run the assessment without assessors.
If you are a training officer or currently involved with supporting trainees on the programme, you can still express an interest in joining the bank. We will endeavour to ensure assessors are independent and trainees are not assessed by their current or past Training Officer. It may be the case that a trainee knows their assessor. For smaller specialties this may be unavoidable. As trainees will be assessed by multiple assessors, the impact of a pre-existing relationship with a trainee is lessened in this assessment. As an assessor, the judgements that you make must only be based on the trainees’ performance in the STP Final Year Assessment. You must not consider the trainees’ performance outside the assessment when marking their performance in the STP Final Year Assessment.
Please let us know if you no longer wish to be on the bank of assessors for the STP Final Year Assessment and we will remove you from the bank. We will no longer contact you about your availability to assess. If you wish to assess again in the future, you will need to reapply.
As outlined in the STP Final Year Assessment Regulations, we will endeavour to ensure assessors are independent and do not assess trainees who they are or have been a training officer for. For smaller specialties in particular, it may be the case that you will assess a trainee you have already assessed in the workplace or on the MSc or know through your specialty community.
As trainees will be assessed by multiple assessors, the impact of a pre-existing relationship with a trainee is lessened in this assessment. As an assessor, the judgements that you make must only be based on the trainees’ performance in the STP Final Year Assessment. You must not consider the trainees’ performance outside the assessment when marking their performance in the STP Final Year Assessment. If you have concerns about a trainee’s performance or behaviour prior to the assessment, please raise these through the appropriate routes in the trainee’s workplace.