Employer advertising job position with higher hourly rate than current existing staff

[Deleted User]

No its not London.
My youngest has just taken up a new social worker role and he's starting on almost 40K.

elsien

I must live in a particularly strapped for cash area then. Ah well. I was getting hopeful for a minute.

General_Grant

elsien said:

arctic_ghost said:

I think you really need to look at moving on. I've just look at the rates for social care workers in our local council, there  recruitment level is £30,522.55 - £35,731.62 per year. (social care not social workers).

Are you comparing like for like? Where I am social care worker roles are kind of like junior social workers without the qualification, not care home staff. Local authority care homes having been tuped out years ago. 

Senior care assistants in the private sector are £9-£10 an hour, just checked. 

I've looked at the job description.  It seems to me to be seeking people for a management role - including budget management and assessment, planning and negotiating on provision of care, 

[Deleted User]

Sent you another PM, this is the rate for social care workers. Hope that clears things up.

TELLIT01

I don't know about the care sector, but advertising jobs at a higher rate of pay than current employees receive is far from unusual.  An employer may be struggling to recruit for any number of reasons, so offering a higher rate of pay may be the only way to attract people. 

Stacey81

Boris82 said:

Hello there so I've been working at nursing home for nearly five years, i'm not sure if i should post any details regarding Company who owns the home or not, for now I won't mention it. So I work as a senior(team leader/supervisor) carer on an hourly rate of £9.41 the non seniors are on £8.91 per hour, in November of 2021 the companies website where adverting for care staff (non senior) at my location with the hourly rate of £9.06. 
In October of 2021 a new care staff member signed there employment contract at £8.91 due to the application process and DBS they only did there first shift on the 4th of January 2022, having checked the careers website for the care home the hourly rate for there position is advertised at £9.51. Having spoke to my line manager they are informing us that if a new member of staff comes to the home now, that new staff member would start at £9.51 and all existing care staff would go up to this rate with Senior care staff going possibly to £9.91
So my question was is this common practice because to me it doesn't make any sense, why would you not bring all care staff up to the advertised hourly rate

Have you looked at being a PA?
that seams a low rate of pay your on for a caring role, especially if you are senior staff. 

I pay my PAs (carers) £12 per hour during day and £14 for wake night.

If they are new to care, I start them at £10, train them for 12 weeks then raise them up to the £12. 

I not would take on someone new to care for wake night, not safe for me to do so.