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Originally Posted by aliferste
My partner is a nurse and showed her this thread....she laughed and said she wished!!
A newly qualified nurse (after 3 years training at uni and then an extra year for a degree) starts off at 17k a year, this goes up to 24k after a number of years. There are no exeptions.... the whole of the NHS works off a grading system so a newly qualified starts off at the first and then works up.
Agency nurses do get paid a lot more cash, generally if you are a highly specialised nurse like someone working in a high dependancy ward and you are asked to travel to do a shift then you will get the big bucks, they do not come up a lot though!
The whole thing about the police officers is that they are trained for 6 months and then get 20 odd grand while nurses only start off at 17k (after 3 years intensive training)
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I got the same response from a guy I work with, his daughter is a recently qualified nurse and had a great deal of difficulty getting a job.
These nurses are working in a specialised ward in the university hospital, I am not sure what their grades are but she is in charge of the shift.
Another guy I work with confirmed the agency rates because his wife is a sister working in the same hospital, and she has no shortage of work offered.
Would these foreign nurses be on the same pay as permanent employees or would they be treated as agency/contractors? I have no reason to disbelieve what she was saying, she knows that I have no interest in what she earns.
It just lodged in my mind for the broader picture.
And under no circumstances would I say there job does not deserve high pay.