I currently work 24 hours in an outpatients clinic. Sometimes work more to cover for hols, sickness etc.
I usually put my extra hours on my timesheet and get paid the same hourly rate as my usual rate.
Our trust has now put in a proposal that all extra shifts go though the nurse bank, and we must join the nurse bank to do extra shifts. They have said that they will cap band 5 salary at mid band 5. The upshot of this is that any extra hours i will be working will be at a lesser hourly rate of pay than my normal hourly rate of pay.
Any thoughts, feelings? Just feels like a massive kick in the belly after all those unpaid hours I have worked in my many years of working for the NHS. Also, beware, may be coming to a hospital near you..........
Can you join an agency & get paid decent rates for any extra shifts you might want instead?? We're using agencies pretty much everyday right now at my private hospital as we're so busy doing NHS work!! we could do with some good nurses!!
If all the nurses did that instead the Trust will be in real trouble. It's a nonsense for them to say that if nurses don't take what amounts to a pay cut they'll go bankrupt!! They should cut down on their management expenses instead & stop wasting money in other areas too!
Specializes in midwifery, gen surgical, community.
I agree with RGN1 comments. I do not want to do overtime really, only to cover hols and sickies on my unit, so agency work would not work for me (plus I am still recovering from 2 broken bones in my lumbar spine which the A&E doc at my hospital did not diagnose from my x-ray), but that is another story.
I have e-mailed my MP to see what she makes of our heartless, moneygrabbing, nurse hating management!!
RGN1
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Can you join an agency & get paid decent rates for any extra shifts you might want instead?? We're using agencies pretty much everyday right now at my private hospital as we're so busy doing NHS work!! we could do with some good nurses!!
If all the nurses did that instead the Trust will be in real trouble. It's a nonsense for them to say that if nurses don't take what amounts to a pay cut they'll go bankrupt!! They should cut down on their management expenses instead & stop wasting money in other areas too!