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AceCobra

PandaPants wrote:

My fiance is a student mental health nurse at Queens and he manages to have a part-time job while he is in uni and doesnt work when he's on placement. Admittedly he is regularly coming in from work at 2.30am and going back to uni at 7.30am but he does it.

I agree nurses should have a pay rise, they do a horrifically hard job under bad conditions but they do get paid for learning. It works out less than £2 an hour but its better than nothing.

No No No No I've already explained this
Student Nurses get a pro rata wage similar to that of a B grade nurse, its not £1 an hour or £2 an hour its around £6.40 an hour tax free. They get paid for the time they spend 'Working' on their placement rotations. They are not paid for the other half of the time they spend in Uni just like all other students.

Now consider, do all students get paid a wage for every placement they go on? I think not. They can also work part time on their Uni placements just like all other students however I think the vast majority don't which is fair enough as they have just worked a rotation of full time hours.

Martin.

wifeforlife

If your a student your a student irrelevant of the course

Cath

Robothell

AceCobra wrote:

No No No No I've already explained this
..........They can also work part time on their Uni placements just like all other students however I think the vast majority don't which is fair enough as they have just worked a rotation of full time hours.

Martin.

I fairness, I think you'd be hard pushed to find a job where they'd either be happy with you dropping your hours to next to nothing during placements and then back up during lecture times.......and it's less likely to find part time work for just a few weeks at a time here and there.

I agree with what's being said in other posts above though, I think a £10k increase is too much...although what they're saying is to bring it into line with minimum wage (I don't know how they arrived at this figure if leftieM is working out the PR rate to be £6.xx an hour already). I just think if the level of commitment is such that you can't hold down a job within European Working Time Directive hours because of your course, and you are not eligible for state subsidised loans, then the bursary should reflect this........however since a staff nurse starting salary is around the £18k gross mark I think £16k tax free is a little OTT.

AceCobra

Robothell wrote:

I fairness, I think you'd be hard pushed to find a job where they'd either be happy with you dropping your hours to next to nothing during placements and then back up during lecture times.......and it's less likely to find part time work for just a few weeks at a time here and there.

I agree with what's being said in other posts above though, I think a £10k increase is too much...although what they're saying is to bring it into line with minimum wage (I don't know how they arrived at this figure if leftieM is working out the PR rate to be £6.xx an hour already). I just think if the level of commitment is such that you can't hold down a job within European Working Time Directive hours because of your course, and you are not eligible for state subsidised loans, then the bursary should reflect this........however since a staff nurse starting salary is around the £18k gross mark I think £16k tax free is a little OTT.

Of course that may pose a problem but there is always student contract work about if people arn't picky. Please consider though most have no real need of a part time job as they are already working one and getting paid for it. Getting another part time job would be a little OTT however I can understand mature students may have no other choice. Sad as that is I'm afraid thats part and partial of being a student. I'd have loved to be paid while doing my degree Alas I had to work part time like most others do

PandaPants_2

!!!!!! it, give them as much as they want! Then i can give up my part-time job and live off my OH! lol