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Dear All,

Looking at the jobs section in the SCP journal this month March i was surprised at the lack of jobs.

Also even more surprised at the use of Band 5 for a senior 2 with a min of 3 years post grad.

Surely this should be a minimum of band 6.

Or is this proof of the down grading of Sen 2 posts under agenda for change.

In my understanding Band 5 is for recent graduates who are on a 1-2 year induction and rotation. When competent to manage own caseload should be Band 6.

So poor pay may be a future of the NHS.

But really where are the jobs???????

regards David

 

David...I graduated last summer and having lived away from home and of course with student debt I decided to move back with the parents. I am from the North West and have been looking for work only in this region. I have joined every possible locum agency there is (who can't find me any work!), I have spoken to possibly every practitioner with an ad in the yellow pages re- work (who dont want to know!)...and only now I have seen 3 ads for NHS posts crop up in my area! I have applied for ALL...am now also concerned about my lack of NHS exp since graduation and also pay bands. I perhaps naively assumed I would get a job 'easily' and could work up to a band 6 posting eventually. As u mentioned Band 5 is for equivalent Senior 2 again with '3yrs post grad experience'. So where do the new grads like me who haven't gone straight from Uni to a job, fit in??
I really am getting disheartened about where my career is heading before it has even started!

 

I think with many unwritten spending "freezes" in NHS Trusts until the new financial year, this month would not be a good time to look for a job. Things tend to pick up in the summer.

 

NHS jobs

There may not be an official freeze on jobs, but the pressure is on the pay:
The Financial Times are reporting:
Swords crossed over health service pay

Rest of story

 

Dear Mr Brown, from your Budget this year I would like . . . Mar 20 2006

From icLiverpool

 

re AFC

Dear All,

And i thought that Agenda For Change and all its cost problems was the Govts idea.

It has taken 3 years from start and no where near finished yet.

This has cost millions.

There are many appeals due to the way that his whole thing has been done. There appears to be no national parity.

In many instances if you sleep with your boss you got a higher grading (just joking). But how you have the differences in banding between adjacent PCT's i do not know.

I have been an AFC panel member for over a year and i do not understand some of the outcomes. I conclude management interference.

So now AFC is here and coming to an end and the Govt are aghast as some of the underpaying of salaries has come to light and remedied. But the overpaying will take 5 years to sort out.

The Govt is the Mistress of its own misfortune.

Now look at the change in PCT's how much will this cost??

also 2008 Yet more change.

The govt is its own worst enemy.

regards David

 

The BBC are reporting:
300 jobs to go at two hospitals

 

Netizens

I suppose as the real agenda for the AFC kicks in. the number of vacancies within the public sector will reduce and positions not filled because of financial constraints. Skill mix will be the next agenda item driven by need and parcochial interests based on professional protectionism, neutered in light of the greater good being served by using exisiting skills. Enter other disciplines poised in the wings and exit small professions into the elective private sector.

Death by stealth or a window of opportunity, take your pick?

Meantime this is a good time to consider immigrating to Western Australia with a lot of good job (well for the public sector, anyway) coming on line. Don't wait too long though because this water shed will not last for ever.

Fun in the sun

Cameron
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