Tip: flexible student job

apoorstudent

dalumsden1 wrote:

Hey. It's worth calling around local hospitals and asking if they have any places open for domestic assistants, they will maybe refer you to an application phone number or ask to see you. Be warned the application process may take some tim, the NHs waiting times are long(hahaha, I crack myself up).

I do enjoy the job actually, the toilets are just a matter of course and I don't care less about it. I get to chat to the patients who are often normal people but have done something wrong mentally or have went a bit odd from drugs. I amazingly got offered a second job within the hospital I work in to be the emergency co-ordinator at night. I sit in a room with all the alarm monitors and the recpetion stuff and rarely have to do anything.

Let me know if you get an application or anything. What area do you live in:? It may be adverstised as ancillary worker or general services assisstant too.

I like the sound of the second job... Is that instead of the cleaning, or as well as? Might check out vacancies around here and see if there's anything - I could do with some money.

sgx.saint

http://www.jobs.nhs.uk/

Try that link also. Allows you to search for NHS Jobs etc.

sgx.saint

Just checked. No vacancies available in my area at the moment!

apoorstudent

sgx.saint wrote:

Just checked. No vacancies available in my area at the moment!

I'm surprised - there are so many in my area! However, this may be because I live in possibly the worst place in the country, haha.

dalumsden1

apoorstudent wrote:

I like the sound of the second job... Is that instead of the cleaning, or as well as? Might check out vacancies around here and see if there's anything - I could do with some money.

This is aswell as and you will never be able to get this job. It is a temporary job that is being phased out over the next few months but I'm milking it for all it's worth.

littlejenjen

i live in newark, nottinghamshire xx

lethal_2

Hey, the payseems everything that I am looking for due to the fact that I get less then £4 an hour, just want to know a bit more about the role. so basicaly your a janitor?

P.S. .......... i AM only 16 thats why the low wage

dalumsden1

NHS minimum wage is about £5.70 so you'll always getb that. I started the job while I was at school. You are a bit more and less of a janitor. You:

Clean dishes, dining rooms, empty bins, clean every room, clean toilets

but you do not clean bodily fluids or crap (this is a mental hospital I work at remember).

Also, there are many offices in a hospital so you can often get put in them and that is basically dusting, vacuuming and bins.

I don't really feel as low as a janitor may feel in the whole improtance thing. The doctors, nurses, porters and all staff just gab away to each other without looking down their noses.

Savvy_Sue

dalumsden1 wrote:

Now the FANTASTIC bit is that when going to uni you can be transferred to work both at your home hospital and near your uni too. This actually only counts as one job (a uni going domestic tells me) so the tax stays lower if you ever have to pay it.

While the ease of transfer IS an advantage, it actually shouldn't make any difference AT ALL to the amount of tax you have to pay. Tax is payable according to what you earn over the course of a full tax year. You can check at the end of the tax year if it's right or not, and if it's not get any overpaid tax back. Or pay any underpaid tax to the taxman. But if you fill in the right forms at the start of a job, it should be worked out correctly.

tracyh_3

You could also get a part time/bank position with nhs professionals in either mental health or general hospitals (otherwise known as Health Care assistants) and as long as you do one shift every 6 months you can stay on the books - last summer I managed to work practically full time some weeks!

http://www.nhsprofessionals.nhs.uk/