Performance review for appraisers

Performance review for appraisers

Appraisers in primary care are required to undertake annual performance reviews with their local Appraisal Leads. Performance review for secondary care appraisers is subject to local processes, please check with your local Admin team or Appraisal Lead in the first instance. 

A Performance Review with your Appraisal Lead has several purposes:

• To allow you to reflect on and discuss progress as an appraiser
• To discuss any problems, concerns or issues you may have
• To review your own personal development needs as an appraiser

Your Appraisal Lead can also help you prepare for the review (in the same way you would assist your appraisees if they had queries).

The aims of the appraiser performance review will be to discuss the following areas:

What do you think of the appraisals you have done over the last year?

• How did they go?
• What went well for you?
• What would you like to have done differently or better?
• What do you think of the year ahead?
• What are your hopes and expectations?

How does the Appraisal Lead think you have been doing?

Together you can review the Form 4s of the appraisals you have done, and consider any feedback you have had from your appraisees, which will be available via SOAR Feedback Form 6A.  You or the Appraisal Lead may be aware of feedback from elsewhere that you should also consider.

What development needs do you personally have as an appraiser for the next year?

There is a Skills and Competency sheet that will be sent to you when you have arranged your review with your Appraisal Lead.  This may help you review the areas that you know you do well, and the areas that you may like to improve.

The review will be confidential to you and the Appraisal Lead.  We expect it to be a positive affirmation of the work you do as an appraiser, a springboard for your work over the next year and of course can provide supporting information for your own appraisal.

Your Appraisal Lead may keep confidential notes of your conversation, for their personal benefit only, and together agree on a statement of your learning or developmental needs.  Templated forms are also available at the bottom of this page.

Form PR1 is to be completed by the appraiser prior to the review meeting; with Form PM2 to be completed by the Appraisal Lead afterwards.

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This page was last updated on: 12/05/2026