Documentation

How a worker is specified,
supervised and audited.

Written for the people who will be asked to sign off on this: the accountable manager, and whoever in risk or audit has to be satisfied first.

AimLeave able to write a role, set its authority, and describe how it will be reviewed.

Specification

01Writing a roleHow to describe a job so a worker can hold it, and so the person accountable can recognise it.
02Setting authorityThe three tiers, who agrees them, and why the middle tier is where the design effort goes.

Supervision

01Supervising a workerWhat the accountable person actually does, day to day and at review.
02Widening authorityWhy a worker starts narrow, and what has to be true before it is given more.

Audit

01Reading the recordWhat is written for every action, and how to answer the question a director will actually ask.
02Evidence for auditProducing the pack alongside the work rather than reconstructing it later.

Deployment

01Where it runsRunning inside your own environment, and what that requires of you.

Reference

The words used here are defined.

Role, authority, signature, record and supervision all mean something specific in this documentation. The glossary is the definition we will be held to.

Glossary

A role template: trigger, finished condition, exceptions, and the authority a person signs for.