The following user guidance is for primary and secondary care admin teams.
If you are a new administrator, you may find the overview video guidance a useful place to start.
Key administrator tasks include:
How to search for a user on SOAR and amend their details (what to do with non medical users like dentists, public health or fellow admins etc)
If the person you are looking for is not on SOAR, you will need to create a new profile for them.
How to remove a user from SOAR and archiving their records.
Former appraisees can login to SOAR to access their appraisal history to download their past Form 4s.
Allocating appraiser to appraisees
For appraisees who are Clinical Academics with an honorary role with the NHS.
Guidance on the different steps for primary care and secondary care admin teams.
Appraisers are typically added to SOAR by the central team, but there are circumstances where you would need to add appraisers to the system yourselves.
Who they are and how to admins assign them.
How to track progress of appraisals in your health board
How to create and delete an appraisal on SOAR
Creating a Form 5A (exemption of appraisal) and checking its progress
Used to aid those admins with revalidation responsibilities.
Outlining what reports are available on SOAR
How to use the Prescribed Search function.