leaving the NHS

debrag

I don't love but don't hate my current job. It's just going nowhere and I'll have to get a new one next years anyways.

I also have an interview for AAU which is band 3.

silkyuk9

debrag wrote: »

I don't love but don't hate my current job. It's just going nowhere and I'll have to get a new one next years anyways.

I also have an interview for AAU which is band 3.

My jobs been going nowhere for 22 years!

debrag

silkyuk9 wrote: »

My jobs been going nowhere for 22 years!

wow the longest I've worked anywhere is 5 years. I tend to continue to look for better positions.

I'm moving from London to Worthing next year and was thinking of commuting but the cost would be too much, might as well take a lower paid job to start (as will loose London weighing).

silkyuk9

debrag wrote: »

wow the longest I've worked anywhere is 5 years. I tend to continue to look for better positions.

I'm moving from London to Worthing next year and was thinking of commuting but the cost would be too much, might as well take a lower paid job to start (as will loose London weighing).

Well, I think looking back my problem was going to college the work for the NHS where my friends decided to spread their wings. I met my wife in 1984 (im 44) we married in 89 then had children so the job was a factor in paying the mortgage etc. Then you kind of get stuck in the tram lines because children go to school in the area and wife has a job also, so after 22 years you look back and think 'what if'

Croatoan

If you stay in the public centre it probably wouldn't be a bad move. I would avoid leaving the NHS to go into the private sector unless there's a pressing reason to do so as care jobs tend to be poorly paid (and very hire and fire) with far fewer benefits, poor training and promotion often means tiny (ie 10p an hour) pay rises and no increments for experience.
I worked alongside a senior carer who administered medication and basically ran the floor when a nurse went sick (if she was on, the company wouldn't even bother putting another nurse on the ward if the regular went off sick). She'd been there 17 years, was a superb carer and got paid 10p an hour more than someone who'd been hired the day before.

debrag

Croatoan wrote: »

If you stay in the public centre it probably wouldn't be a bad move. I would avoid leaving the NHS to go into the private sector unless there's a pressing reason to do so as care jobs tend to be poorly paid (and very hire and fire) with far fewer benefits, poor training and promotion often means tiny (ie 10p an hour) pay rises and no increments for experience.
I worked alongside a senior carer who administered medication and basically ran the floor when a nurse went sick (if she was on, the company wouldn't even bother putting another nurse on the ward if the regular went off sick). She'd been there 17 years, was a superb carer and got paid 10p an hour more than someone who'd been hired the day before.

It's not a care job like that, I've done that carers doing meds as not a nursing home so no nurses employed. It was a well known health company who only paid minimum wage! Never again. I don't want to go back into care homes etc.

This position is as support worker in supported housing so assisting them where needed and to get out into the community. The pay is very good band 6 for the council the same if not better than band 3 in London including London weighing.

milliemonster

If you return to the NHS within a year you will go back on the same increment level you were on before if it's the same band or if a band below, equal increment to the level you left on.

If you are out of the NHS for more than 12 months, they will start you back at the bottom of the band, you can ask to be put higher up but it is doubtful any Trust in the current climate will put you higher up when they don't have to.

Coraline

This is where things confuse me, if you have seen the other thread I started about banding... When I was first hired me they gave me band four, point 22, the very top of that band!

It seems to me there are so many rules and procedures in place in this organisation but it's pick and mix when it comes to actually following them.

bluesnake

Carefull with NHS jobs and salary comparisons, as many like me get an extra hidden 14% paid in pension contributions via the NHS (hospital?). So if I was on £30000, going outside I would need extra £3400 to break even. I am on the old scheme and do not know if the new scheme works this way.