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Nursing staff from Eastern Europe about to 'flood' into UK ? [45]
No they are paid the same wages as their counterparts in the same jobs.
Sort of.
New immigrants (and UK citizens returning to the NHS after a few years abroad) are paid the same as newly-qualified nurses, irrespective of experience. It takes about seven years to climb back to the top of the scale. It is therefore obvious that some (if not all) employers would rather go abroad, rather than pay someone up to £7K a year to do the same job, if the opportunity is there.
The fact that a nurse with 20 years experience may only get paid £7K an year more than someone who is recently qualified is shameful enough in itself, but employers clearly do not think so. It's obvious that employers are rubbing their hands at the prospect of "getting the job done" for £20.5K p.a. instead of up to £27.5K.
As a consequence of this, applicants for nurse training or nursing jobs will fall, which will give the papers yet another opportunity to claim that nursing is another job "which British people won't do".
Everyone knows that "frontline services" will NOT be protected - Governments LOVE the jobs which keep people under control - i.e., managers and faceless clipboard-waving bureaucrats - and nursing posts will form the majority of posts to go in the forthcoming NHS cuts. Yet the EU is imposing YET ANOTHER law on us which will make it even more difficult for British workers to find jobs!
This country is clearly heading for widespread race riots or even civil war unless we leave the corrupt EUSSR.
Unfortunately, some qualifications from Poland (and likely other Eastern European Countries, perhaps also UK?), etc, have been proved to be forged.
I strongly suspect that my ex had forged qualifications, but as I cannot prove this, I couldn't really do anything about it. But based on the questions she asked me (which even a first year nursing student should be able to answer) I simply couldn't believe that she had over a decade's experience in ICU/PACU/
Anaesthetics in Poland - unless, of course, Polish nurses working in such areas are simply there to do the sort of things which anyone can do (washes, position changes etc) and have no clinical role (giving drugs, making decisions on fluid management, etc) - but I do not believe that this is the case. All the other Polish nurses I have met seemed well-trained, intelligent and knowledgable.
The jobs are always secure, have you tried sacking a nurse when we have all the backing of the unions. These days you can't even sack someone who is drunk on the job. Trust me I've tried.
True. But in my experience, employers have other ways of getting rid of people who rock the boat - turning a blind eye to bullying, denying them training opportunities, changing their rota so it makes life more difficult for them, etc. I've seen plenty of this during my working lifetime, so I can definitely imagine some employers allowing this to go on, so that experienced (better-paid) staff will move on, in order to replace them with someone who costs up to £7K per annum less.
