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Hello. I would like to know more about an NHS Band 3 Administrator role that requires cross-covering over 6 areas. What will the role entail? I am asking because these are very different areas. Will the role involve providing the same support but for different departments (e.g., data entry, checking in, and departing patients)?

The health secretary mentioned it on the bbc

Hi, I am newly qualified and a new NHS staff nurse. I am wondering if the first months pay is at basic rate and the extra hours and additional pay for training and bonuses for working unsocial hours etc will be added on the following month? Or should I have been paid for everything from the first payment?

TIA

My current manager interfered in my interview for a different job and is trying to tell them not to hire me.

I am an allied health professional, qualified a year ago. I got in via the apprenticeship route, unfortunately my previous team couldn’t keep me after the apprenticeship finished due to funding. I was gutted, but understood and respected the reality that funding sucks right now in the NHS. However, my goal is to eventually go back to this team and work there. It’s always been my goal. My old manager (let’s call him Joe) knows this.

I’m now working in the same trust, different role, different manager. My new manager (let’s call him Mike) is the AHP lead. Not a great manager, but is the lead non the less. When the job ad for my old team popped up, I was excited and wanted to apply. So I’ve applied. Naturally, I kept this quiet in case I don’t get a job interview (I like my privacy!) Mike finds out, is not happy and sends me a sarcy email saying out of ‘professional courtesy’ I should have told him. Respectfully, I disagreed. But I apologised still.

I went to seek advice from a former colleague in my old team and told her what’s happened. She proceeded to say - funny you mention your manager Mike, because he called Joe and told them if this person (ME) applies, don’t offer her an interview. I was shocked. My current manager, Mike, went out of his way to tell Joe not to hire me and tells him who he should hire. Thankfully, Joe apparently got annoyed and actually defended my honour and said I would be an excellent candidate and should be offered a chance if I want to apply. Apparently regardless, Mike and this other AHP lead are trying desperately to tell them I shouldn’t apply for the role and that they want to be on the interview panel.

Now, I am concerned about this because for whatever reason, they desperately don’t want me out of my job and certainly don’t want me to go work in my old team. I contact Joe and ask him respectfully, I don’t want them in my interview. He reassured me they wouldn’t be.

Fast forward to the interview, who shows up? Mike himself. I was pissed. The whole time sitting opposite someone who doesn’t want me to have this job was awful.

Anyway, apparently Joe wants to offer me the job, because I was in fact the best candidate but because MIKE wants a say, they are waiting to make the decision until 1 week later (when Mike gets back from holiday I assume).

I’m pissed. I feel like I should complain about this. But also if I complain, this AHP lead is still going to be my AHP lead and I don’t want to burn bridges. At the same time, how dare someone block me from pursuing my dream job?

I don’t really know what to do at this point. I’m mad, someone is trying to block me from a job I want, and Honestly, if I don’t get the job I’ll likely hand in my notice anyway.

When I list someone as a personal referee,

what questions will they be asked, and what information do they need to provide about me?

Will they asked if they known me for at least 3 years? And my unemployment gap history ?

(Not professional employer reference)

Hi everyone,

I hope you are all doing well.

I am a Pakistan-based surgical trainee looking for guidance, mentorship, or potential job leads within the NHS. Despite meeting the essential criteria for both SHO (CT1/CT2) and Senior Clinical Fellow (ST3+) roles, I have been applying for a year without securing an interview.

I suspect my lack of direct NHS experience or specific CV formatting is holding my application back at the shortlisting stage. I would be incredibly grateful if anyone could review my clinical overview or offer advice on breaking through the NHS shortlisting barrier.

My professional profile includes:

Qualification / Experience

Fully registered with GMC

Both MRCS A and B cleared

4 years of structural surgical residency as an **FCPS Residency training

Multiple publications in peer-reviewed journals

If anyone has gone through a similar transition, knows of trusts open to hiring international fellows,your insight would be invaluable.

Thank you so much for your time and support.

So literally just the title lol. I'm a newly qualified radiographer interviewing for band 5 roles. Got an interview coming up in a few days and it's somewhere I REALLY want to work. I've had 4 interviews previously, asked for feedback and improved on that but I just want everything to go perfect for this one aha.

I watched a video saying to score a 5 in your answers you have to:

- Use STARR

- Be detailed and specific

- Use real examples not hypotheticals

- Link answers to core values and transferable skills

Etc.

I already do most of this, and am currently writing out some answers that include the rest, but I wondered if there were any examples of high scoring answers, or answers that do all of this, that I could look at? I've seen other videos with answers in but they don't really seem to meet the criteria of a "5" answer.

I don't want to copy the answers so it could be examples from any role, non specific (I think band 5+ would be best though), I literally just want to see some real life high scoring answers and I can adjust mine accordingly.

I will not use AI.

Any help is greatly appreciated 🫶

Hello, how hard is it for an intl student to get job in NHS right after masters? (No prior experience)

Can it be because I am an international candidate?

So I had this interview for a band 5 ODP and it went really well. Like, I ✅ all the boxes. In the end they asked me, okay you are not from the UK? I said, No. Then they said, we have to discuss the cost then. And i got rejected. I asked for the feedback and then feedback I received is ambiguous. I don’t even know what do I need to take from it and improve?

Hi all, I'm looking at applying to jobs in the NHS in the labs. I am interested in joining the histology department, however I dont have any biomedical licence and im worried that will affect me when applying.

I have up to a year experience in histology and a bioveterinary science degree. Is this a case of just email the recruitment person and see what they say?

Hi everyone,

I've been invited for an NHS Band 3 Admin interview in the UK. The interview email mentions that there will be a 20-minute Excel assessment before or during the interview.

I have a basic understanding of Excel, but I'm not sure what they usually test for Band 3 admin roles.

For anyone who's done this before:

- What kind of tasks or questions did you get?

- Were you asked to use formulas (SUM, IF, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, etc.)?

- Did they test sorting, filtering, formatting, pivot tables, charts, or data entry?

- How difficult was it overall?

- Any tips on what I should practise over the next few days?

I'd really appreciate hearing about your experiences. Thanks in advance!

Curious to see if this had worked for others or put you in a bad position..

- They're not coming into work on time

- Some leave early and pretend to work from home

- They joked about never being caught dead doing admin at home.

• randomly changing their on site schedule to work from home when they have duties waiting for them.

Hi folks I was on about a month ago if you remember at all, I was on break talking about being abused at work by my line manager, the abuse has been horrific, sustained and gone on for nearly two and a half years at this point. Basically I now have GAD, panic attacks, anxiety, pre diabetes, sleep apnea and depression thanks to the person concerned, I also took six months off work, and went through a brief moment (Half a day probably) where I no longer wished to be a burden to my family. Cut to October came back, promises were made that have been broken and exposed as utter and complete lies, the abuser is now trying to sack me for want of a better phrase. I wrote all this in a post, and thanks to a lot of you for replying, got some good advice and support. I have launched a counter grievance (One allegedly needs to call it a Resolution meeting now, I’m sure that will improve my panic attacks greatly!), spoken to my overall manager, tried to avoid the bully unless it’s work related, meetings set with HR etc. Which sadly has achieved naff all! The collusion between management and the HR department concerned is quite appalling, a well oiled machine that has quite obviously been plotting my removal for several months now, the volume of work I have been given despite the conditions I have spoken of is double what I had BEFORE the breakdown, as a result I have now been accused of missing deadlines for targets that five people between them would be struggling to meet. As a further result many of the working targets are not being met, as a further result this is leading to front line equipment used by clinicians, ward staff, paramedics and GP surgeries not have equipment that can actually be covered for repairs….essentially because the department seems more interested in trying to break me than assisting the city they actually serve. Again I appreciate all the advice from the last post, but I will tolerate this nonsense no more and will be leaving the trust within the next two months. I will not have my health or life threatened by rich abusers, nor will I have my wife become a single parent because the father has had a heart attack. I will upon leaving be making a formal complaint to multiple bodies about this wretched and outrageous behaviour, and at some point in the next years I will be seeking legal advice. I will also be writing about my experiences in other formats and platforms, and frankly could not care less if I were to be breaching any laws preventing this. I would rather be sued and help someone to survive what I have, than see someone go through this like me. Most of all I am concerned for my city, in that the health of it, no matter how small that contribution, is predicated on the work we are supposed to be doing. I hope HR and the management team sleep well knowing my abuser has been wrapped in cotton wool whilst equipment needed for urgent care lies idol! Again thank you to the people in the NHS who work hard to make it some semblance of what it should be, it is shame that managers and their friends at Palantir do not practice that same work ethic.

Hi all, I've been tasked with finding opportunities for improvement and transformation within my trust, but usually these ideas come from heads of service or senior management. Is there any ideas that you all might have that might add up to savings or improvements? For instance there is taxi that is sent with medical samples to another site 3 times a day when it only needed once. That sort of change, or of course anything bigger that is often overlooked within the trusts control.

I have worked in the NHS for just shy of twenty years, and for the most part have been proud to do so. However I am giving very serious consideration to leaving the service due to a quite appalling two year period of abuse from a line manager. I will spare you the details, nor do I do this to gain sympathy, frankly if my trust found this out, with the greatest respect I no longer care-I am mainly saying this so that no one has to suffer in the manner that I have. But basically I have never felt so betrayed, so humiliated in front of my peers, so poorly spoken to, so frightened and alone than under this person, it would not be an exaggeration to say the individual has ruined my life. I am due to return to work this week after a fortnight break (A break that I was forced into taking just to get away for my own sanity), and I am dreading this. But like a lot of you I have family who I am responsible, so I have very little choice but to carry on taking abuse. The treatment has led me to having a period of six months off work with mental health issues, diagnosed GAD, anxiety, panic attacks all of which I now take prescription medicine to try and control. I now have sleep apnea and pre diabetes, conditions made worse by the bullying culture within my department. So, to the men especially, guys if you are suffering DO NOT do what I did, mental health issues exist, I know that now. Reach out to speak to someone, anyone, husband, wife, brother, sister, a colleague, a friend, a wellbeing service anyone you can access, suffering in silence does not work. I shall miss working for the NHS but with the greatest of respect, I value my life abd my son still having a father that is still alive over my employment. Anyone else suffering harassment you aren’t alone, don’t allow anyone to intentionally destroy your life. Thank you, and thank you to the wonderful people in the NHS keeping us safe.

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TL;DR: working in the NHS for 4 years and moved jobs multiple times by choice. Love the career itself, but NHS working conditions (understaffing, pressure, complaints, targets, lack of support) are causing major stress and burnout.

Edit: I work in a clinical role as an allied health professional

I graduated 4 years ago. I have worked in the NHS since I graduated. I’ve moved jobs 4 times within this time, by choice.

It’s not that I don’t like my career path, but I don’t like how working for the NHS makes me feel.

The pressures are immense, we are under staffed and have no funding for more staff, because of waiting lists I am at the brunt of disappointment and complaints a lot of the time.

Service leads are not happy that we are not meeting targets and that we are not being efficient enough.

The same theme happens in every post I have done, I enjoy my career, but I don’t love working for the NHS.

When I have approached supervisors/management I usually get feedback that my expectations and standards are too high, and if I am to survive working in the NHS I need to lower my work ethic to match the NHS standards.

I have had a couple of sickness episodes in 12 months due to stress. I think I know i’m not cut out for NHS work but I would appreciate any outside perspectives or advice/guidance in how I could try to better manage. I have already been assessed by occupational health but it was felt even with reasonable adjustments it doesn’t remove the service and wider issues.