Self-assessment and verification

How self-assessment works and how you will submit evidence.

Verification process

There are 2 parts to this process.

Self-assessment/unverified score

As part of the Oriel application form you will be asked to provide a self-assessment score depending on your personal achievements.

Your self-assessment score, as submitted on your application form will be verified and your verified score will contribute towards your overall score.

The administrative team are unable to advise applicants how many points they should award themselves for each domain. We have attempted to clarify the wording of options and provide guidance on the website.

We understand experiences and achievements will not always fit neatly under one option, and the consultants/leads recognised this, you will need to employ your professional judgement to ascertain which of the available options is the most appropriate to the best of your knowledge and belief. All scores and evidence will be reviewed by a verification panel. The panel will determine if you have scored yourself appropriately when reviewing the evidence.

• Your self-assessment scores cannot be changed once your application has been submitted
• The recruitment administrative team are unable to provide guidance on the score you should select
• The recruitment administrative team are unable to change any scores at any stage of your application process
• Recruitment administrators will not be able to upload evidence on behalf of applicants and candidates are advised to use their best judgement in this regard
• Scoring is mandatory and failure to do so will result in your application being withdrawn
• Uploading evidence is mandatory and failure to do so will result in your application being withdrawn
• Submitted evidence will be verified against the self-assessment criteria. Where the evidence submitted does not match the score awarded, the score will be adjusted accordingly

Uploading evidence

Shortlisted applicants will be invited to upload evidence of their achievements to the Evidence Upload Portal. The upload window will open by Wednesday 11 December 2024 and will close on Friday 3 January 2025 (subject to change).

Applicants will be provided with further instructions about how to upload evidence to the evidence portal in due course. Applicants should ensure that they present the evidence in the requested format.

Failure to do so could result in your evidence being rejected and/or the self-assessment score being revised downwards. Failure to submit all evidence by the stated deadline will result in your application form being withdrawn by the recruitment team.

Please report any issues with uploading evidence prior to the deadline as once the deadline for submission has passed, applicant access will be withdrawn.

Verified score

Submitted evidence will be verified against the self-assessment criteria for all applicants by a panel of Vascular Surgery consultants. They will verify that you have claimed the correct number of points and will provide a verified score. Sometimes if they feel your evidence merits a different score from your self-assessment the score will be adjusted accordingly.

On completion of the verification process, applicants will be sent their verified score, together with the verification panel’s feedback explaining any changes to score.

This will be sent via Qpercom and may go to your junk folder. If you have not received the scoresheet by Tuesday 28 January 2025, please contact us.

Verification appeals

If you disagree with the score awarded (not the score you have given yourself), you can submit an appeal.

You will not be able to submit any additional evidence at this point.

You will be sent a link to a MS form in the message you are to email your scoresheet to.

You will need to complete this if you wish to submit an appeal. Only select the domain/s you want reviewed and provide a rationale behind why your evidence submitted should have scored higher.
The appeals window is 72 hours from the scoresheets being sent to submitting your appeal. Appeal requests received after the deadline will not be considered.

Appeal requests received after the 72-hour deadline will not be considered. The outcome of the appeal is final and there is no further recourse for dissatisfied applicants and the recruitment office will not engage in further discussion. Disagreements over self-assessment scores fall out of scope of the MDRS Complaints Policy.

A combination of your verified evidence score and total score at interview will be used to determine your final total score and ranking.