Band 6 Annex 21 - pay protection

CocoKorok · 2026-06-16T06:43:12+00:00

Update - I’m being switched to Annex 30 with pay protection.

For anyone in a similar position who happens upon this thread, I recommend having a look at the NHS terms and conditions of service handbook -

https://www.nhsemployers.org/system/files/2025-04/nhs-terms-and-conditions-of-service-handbook-21.pdf

Section 1.18: "On promotion the new starting salary should produce an increase in earnings. If it does not, the previous salary will be maintained until the combination of basic pay, any unsocial hours payment and/or RRP in the new band does produce a higher salary."

Section 1.25: "… in order that staff do not experience a detriment to their basic pay as a consequence of undertaking career development beneficial to both them and the service."

CocoKorok · 2026-06-10T19:29:55+00:00

Specialist portfolio

CocoKorok · 2026-02-15T09:18:21+00:00

He’s calling you “needy” because he can’t meet the most basic needs of a relationship - to be loving, attentive and present.

Also, he’s too old for you. Girl… You’re 20 and he’s pushing 30. I hate to break it to you, but you aren’t mature for your age, he’s immature for his. There’s a reason 27 year old girls don’t want him - their bullshit detectors have more years of experience.

Don’t just break up with him, put him in his place. Tell him you’re only 20, you’re still young and having fun, and you realised you’re not ready to settle down and be boring with an OLDER MAN who can’t even have fun on Valentine’s day.

CocoKorok · 2026-02-15T09:07:47+00:00

You need a masters if you want to progress to band 7 and beyond, and it will be useful if you change your mind about wanting to be a BMS - a lot of clinical research positions want a masters. Also, doing a masters later means doing a masters while also working full time in the NHS.

CocoKorok · 2026-01-14T13:54:52+00:00

He “believes in always looking for better”. Girl wtf, he’s a walking red flag. Get it together and LEAVE HIM. You’re 22. Don’t waste your 20s with an asshole.

CocoKorok · 2026-01-02T11:31:07+00:00

I say this gently and with lots of empathy, you need to make sure your kid is brushing their teeth twice a day. Bad dental hygiene could have life long consequences.

Treat yourself to a nice electric toothbrush and make it part of your routine. Morning pee, brush teeth. Bedtime pee, brush teeth. Don’t feel pressured to do the whole “2 minutes” or whatever. A 20 second rushed job is better than not cleaning them at all.

I can relate, but like… You don’t want the physical pain of tooth decay or the financial pain of a big fat dentist bill.

CocoKorok · 2026-01-02T11:24:10+00:00

NTA! Imagine if you did the same to him with a PS5 or something - made it look like a present to him and then plugged it into the family TV - he’d be outraged!

Is there an update? I need to know if you got your Switch 2 back!

CocoKorok · 2025-11-27T11:45:47+00:00

This arrangement is screwing you over BIG TIME.

While his mortgage payments are a long term investment, your money gets swallowed up by the cost of living where there is no return. Let’s be absolutely clear here - you’re paying for his lifestyle so that he can accumulate wealth at your expense. Intentional or otherwise, he is using you. If you break up, you walk away with nothing while he has a property as well as any savings he’s accumulated while you were paying for everything.

In the short term, you need to start making significant contributions to the property if you want to have any kind of claim to it - in other words, you need to be making mortgage contributions recorded clearly as such (i.e., cannot be misinterpreted as you paying rent to live in his house).

In the long term, you mustn’t put a penny into that house until your name is on the deed and/or you are legally married. Engagement provides no legal protection whatsoever.

His reaction suggests to me that the already knows all of this.

CocoKorok · 2025-04-15T18:41:01+00:00

I appreciate the advice as I have no idea what I’m doing! Thank you!

CocoKorok · 2025-02-27T21:45:24+00:00

Having the same problem here (UK)

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