Professional Assessment in the Hospital Public Service (PHF)

Verified 06 November 2026 - Public Service / (Prime Minister)

You are a hospital agent and you would like to know how your annual evaluation is conducted? We present you the rules applicable depending on whether you are a civil servant or a contractor.

Public servant

If you are a civil servant holder, your professional value is assessed every year during an interview. It gives rise to a report.

The purpose of the annual professional interview is to analyze, in common with your direct line manager, the review of the actions carried out during the past year and to fix the priority objectives for the coming year.

The annual professional interview also allows you to express yourself on the exercise of your functions and on your professional environment. During the interview, you can make your career development wishes known.

For this purpose, the interview focuses on the following points:

  • Achievement of the objectives set during the previous professional interview or when you took office if it took place during the year, in connection with the organizational and operating conditions of your establishment
  • Manner of serving
  • Acquired professional experience
  • Wishes and prospects for professional development (development of assignments, change of assignment, mobility or professional promotion)
  • Where appropriate, capacity and interest in managerial functions
  • Objectives for the coming year according to the evolution of your professional skills, the prospects of evolution of the conditions of organization and operation of your establishment
  • Training needs depending on changes in techniques and professions, and if you are a caregiver, depending on the evolution of care methods. Your training needs are defined according to your missions, the skills you need to acquire and your professional project. The annual professional interview does not replace the training interview of which it can be followed.

During the interview, your direct supervisor checks that you know the rules for using the Personal Training Account (PTA) and the conditions under which you can consult your rights. If this is not the case, it informs you.

During the interview, you are invited to make your observations and proposals on the evolution of your position and the functioning of your establishment.

The interview gives rise to a general assessment of your professional value.

Your prospects for advancement to a higher grade may also be the subject of a special additional assessment. This is the case if you have reached the last step of your grade for at least 3 years on 31 December of the year for which you are assessed and if you have not reached that grade by grade advancement, contest or internal promotion.

This additional assessment shall be taken into account when implementing the general guidelines laid down in the management guidelines.

The criteria for assessing your professional value depend on the nature of your missions and your level of responsibility.

These criteria are fixed by the head of establishment after obtaining the opinion of the social establishment committee.

They include the following:

  • Professional results achieved and achievement of objectives
  • Professional and technical skills and knowledge
  • Manner of service and relational qualities
  • Ability to provide expertise and, where appropriate, to provide leadership or to perform higher-level functions.

The professional interview is conducted by your direct supervisor in the establishment where you work most of your working time.

If you do not have a direct supervisor, the professional interview is conducted by the head of the establishment or his representative.

The maintenance is organized under conditions allowing ensure confidentiality.

The date maintenance is yours communicated at least 8 days in advance.

The invitation to the interview is accompanied by your job description and a copy of the interview description used as a basis for the report.

The interview report, which should cover all the topics discussed, is drawn up and signed by your direct supervisor.

In a maximum 30 days following the interview, the report is communicated to you. You can add your observations.

You have 15 days to return it to your direct supervisor.

The report shall be endorsed by the superintendent, or his representative, who may make his own observations.

The report is then sent to you notified. You sign it to attest that you have read it and then return it to the head of the institution who integrates it into your file.

You can ask the superintendent to review the interview report.

You must submit your request within 15 clear days following the date of notification of the report.

The head of establishment notifies you of his response within 15 clear days of the date of receipt of your request for review.

In the event of an unfavorable response, you can enter the CAP: titleContent within one month of the date of notification of the head of establishment's response to the request for review.

The CAP may propose to the head of establishment that the minutes of the interview be amended.

The head of the establishment provides you with the final report of your professional interview.

The reports of professional interviews are taken into account by the employer institution for the preparation of thegrade advancement and lists of suitability for internal promotion.

They are also taken into account if the amount of certain premiums depends on your individual results or your professional value.

Contractual

You benefit every year from a professional interview if you are recruited in CDI: titleContent or in CDD: titleContent more than 1 year on a permanent job (i.e. for a reason other than to face a temporary or seasonal increase in activity) or on a project contract.

The purpose of the annual professional interview is to allow you to analyze, in common with your direct line manager, the results of the actions carried out during the past year and to set the priority objectives for the coming year.

The interview focuses on the following points:

  • The professional results you have obtained in relation to the objectives set and the conditions of organization and operation of your service
  • The objectives for the coming year and prospects for improving your professional results, taking into account, possibly, the prospects for changing the conditions of organization and operation of your service
  • Your way of serving
  • The achievements of your professional experience
  • Your coaching skills if you are in a coaching role
  • Your training needs based on your missions, the skills you need to acquire and your professional project
  • Your career development prospects, including your plans to prepare for public service entrance exams.

The head of establishment may, after consulting the social committee of establishment, define other topics on which the professional interview may relate.

The interview is conducted by your direct supervisor.

The date of the interview is yours communicated at least 8 days in advance.

Your supervisor prepares and signs a report of the interview.

The report contains a general assessment of your professional value.

The report is sent to you. You may wish to add your observations. It is targeted by the head of establishment who supplements it.

The report is then sent to you. You sign it to attest that you have read it and return it to the head of the institution who integrates it into your file.

The conditions for the organization of the professional interview and the content of the report shall be determined by the head of establishment after consulting the social committee of establishment.

You can ask the head of the institution to review the minutes of the professional interview within 30 clear days following its notification.

The head of the establishment sends you his answer within 15 clear days following receipt of the request.

In the event of an unfavorable response from the head of establishment, you can enter the CCP: titleContent within one month of notification of the head of establishment's reply.

After consulting the commission, the head of the establishment provides you with the final report of the interview.

The interview report may also be the subject of a contentious remedies before the administrative court.

Interview reports are taken into account for the revaluation of your remuneration. It intervenes at least every 3 years.