A structured job description and person specification, with a worked example and guidance on fair, inclusive wording.
People & HR
Job Description and Person Specification
About this document
A template for describing a role: its purpose, main responsibilities, measures of success, working relationships and conditions, together with a person specification setting out the skills, knowledge and experience needed. It supports fair recruitment, objective probation reviews and appraisals.
The document is laid out in the sections below. Each one comes with a plain-English guidance note explaining what it does and what to change.
Our templates are professionally structured starting points for UK businesses, not legal advice. For anything complex, unusual or high-value, have your final version checked by a solicitor.
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