I'm wondering if anyone could give me an update on the job market in the UK? I know that things have been tough with the NHS of late - but are things still as dire on hiring front? (I have searched the posts on here, and have been reading this forum for years - but I haven't seen anything in the last 6 months or so about this topic)
I see a fair few job posts on the NHS jobs website whenever I search - are these actual posts that are intended to be filled? Or are they posted because they legally have to be, but there is no budget to actually fill the positions (this is happening a lot where I work in Canada)
One more question about the NHS job site - are the postings I see ALL the job postings that the NHS has available, or is there a portion of jobs for internal applicants only that I'm not privy to as I'm not working for the NHS? I'm just wondering if the jobs I see posted is a true indication of how many available jobs there are, or if there are more available to those already employed by eh NHS.
I am an RN in Canada with British Citizenship, and would love to move back to England - but I know that conditions and health care are in a bit of an upheaval (as they are here in my neck of the woods)… I don't want to be naive in my decision making, and don't want to go through the costly overseas registration only to get to the UK and be jobless.
No, look at what the Scottish government did for nurses. They gave us the increase that Cameron was too pennypinching to do. Scotland and England now have different pay rates. I'm not happy about that, I want my English colleagues to have the same as me, but as long as we have a conservative government that wants to dismantle the NHS then pay will remain low.
Yes, I hear it lots from the public and the media, "nursing is a vocation". Just another way of saying, "lets keep salaries low as we have done for the past 67 years".
It doesn't matter which government is in power, nurses can never be given a real - time wage. The need for nursing numbers is growing, and you can't give the huge amount of nurses we have a decent pay rise without taxing people to death.
Members of the public say they would be willing to pay more tax to keep the NHS afloat, but if you told them taxes are going up to increase nurse wages they would not be happy. There was recently an article in the Guardian which mentioned nurses were resorting to food banks and payday loans and an unusually large number of commentors thought it was poor financial planning on the nurse' part.
I need to balance out this post by saying that I had the same situation when moving from the UK to the US.
It took forever to get a state license once I passed NCLEX, and even longer to find a job. I'm a nurse practitioner in England, but that means nothing in the US and I had a long fight even getting to interview, because even though my resume is strong, its "foreign".
I'm English but most days I get patients asking me if I am from Australia or Ireland.
I find the ignorance of life outside the US staggering. One family were guessing at my nationality, and guessed Ireland and Netherlands.
I said they were close with both guesses, and in fact I'm from the country in between Ireland and Netherlands. Their reaction to that information - "Oh, so you are from Africa."
Seriously?
Don't they have maps in US schools?
So you were offended because someone wasn't able to identify your accent? If that is the worst experience you had in the U.S. I would say you fared pretty well.
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It doesn't matter which government is in power, nurses can never be given a real - time wage. The need for nursing numbers is growing, and you can't give the huge amount of nurses we have a decent pay rise without taxing people to death.
Members of the public say they would be willing to pay more tax to keep the NHS afloat, but if you told them taxes are going up to increase nurse wages they would not be happy. There was recently an article in the Guardian which mentioned nurses were resorting to food banks and payday loans and an unusually large number of commentors thought it was poor financial planning on the nurse' part.
Edit: Here it is
Nursing chief: ‘Nurse shortages are life-threatening’ | Hélène Mulholland | Society | The Guardian