Your right about vacancies but that has been a recent phenomenon, linked to Brexit among other issues. However vacancies in the NHS are endemic and in the past the stop gap was nurses from the Philippines etc. The lowest pay band for a nurse is just £20000 and many auxiliary staff are on less. Without excessive overtime their remuneration, given what their responsibilities are, is not generous.
I don’t disagree Daf but, as you will know, they don’t stay on £20k for long. Experienced nurses earn considerably more. Then, of course, there’s the pay increments structure that gives them increases that, unlike in the private sector, aren’t performance related. Plus, of course, the excellent pension scheme. Don’t get me wrong, they do a great job that, as I said earlier, most of us wouldn’t want to do, but I simply don’t buy the line that they are poorly paid. As I also said, Care Workers are a different matter altogether. Appalling pay and none of the benefits.
.. i’m not sure that you’re knowledgeable on this topic. Experienced nurses change fields and/or specialise, so yeah, unsurprisingly they earn more. Most nurses work in Band 5:
Everything above Band 5 are managerial jobs and require further education/training, so unsurprisingly, the salary goes up. They’re not “just” nurses then anymore.
Factually, even an experienced nurse earns less than the average bricklayer. If you don’t think that there’s something wrong with that (hours, responsibilities, education), then.. i don’t know, you’re flat out wrong. And please don’t go to the “yeah but it’s back breaking work” – a nurses job is plenty physical. Also, “i simply don’t buy” really isn’t an argument for anything with literally all the information readily and easily available for all of us to check. All that means is that you can’t be bothered to check whether or not your opinion is based on facts or on wishful thinking.
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