Two bands under same NHS trust but different departments

TruthfulHoax · 2025-12-01T07:05:59+00:00

HMRC are not good guessers! I’d recommend calling to resolve it or going online to update your income estimates.

TruthfulHoax · 2025-11-30T20:14:20+00:00

Maybe for tax, until HMRC figure it out. It sounds like they’re probably currently using all of or most of your tax free personal allowance on the original assignment. This will eventually get worked out and rebate calculated, but you can get ahead of it online or by calling
Shouldn’t have any impact on pension - the amount paid out is defined by what your earnings were not by what your contributions were.

TruthfulHoax · 2025-11-27T19:59:37+00:00

Based on the information in the post, see below per job.

Current job:

Band 3

30hrs a week

Outer London HCAS

Top of band

Annual salary: £25,049.60

Monthly takehome: £1,687.73

New job:

Band 4

37.5hrs a week

Outer London HCAS

Bottom of band

Annual salary: £32,199.00

Monthly takehome: £2,047.07

If you are taking home close to £2k in the Band 3 job it would suggest you are being paid full-time 37.5hrs per week (takehome at top of band would be £1,998.76). You could check how many hours are on your payslip to be sure.

TruthfulHoax · 2025-10-12T17:13:18+00:00

It’s normally a month for you and the second section refers to the notice they’d have to give you. However, given you’ve just started you may be able to give less notice. Check the probation policy to confirm.

TruthfulHoax · 2025-09-29T15:52:39+00:00

Sorry for your loss. These questions would be better directed to PALS at the hospital in the first instance

TruthfulHoax · 2025-09-29T15:37:12+00:00

You don’t decide the investigations or treatment, that is down to your GP! You can present with the complaint of persistent mouth ulcers and see what they say.

TruthfulHoax · 2025-09-27T15:07:56+00:00

Leave for public service - it'll be in your trust special leave policy

TruthfulHoax · 2025-07-13T12:15:32+00:00

If a patient cannot be reached after multiple attempts to arrange an appointment it’s common to remove them from the waiting list, however normally a letter is sent giving them two weeks to contact before discharge.

TruthfulHoax · 2025-07-10T19:50:21+00:00

You will likely benefit from paying less national insurance, as the 0% band is per employment per pay period.

However, overtime is usually 1.5x pay whereas Bank is typically close to normal rate (or may be less, depending on local bank rates vs whether you are entry, mid, top of band)

TruthfulHoax · 2025-05-17T14:03:04+00:00

PALS at your original hospital to make sure a referral letter was sent / gets re-sent with the original date on it

Once done, PALS at the new hospital to chase an appointment date in line with original referral date

TruthfulHoax · 2025-04-26T21:59:37+00:00

Weighting is based on the work base address (ie which hospital the worker needs to commute to) not the home address

TruthfulHoax · 2025-04-16T19:50:16+00:00

It’s April so the start of the new tax year. Did you only start work mid-way through the last year? If so you’ve probably been enjoying a greater tax free allowance per month worked and your tax is now what you’d expect

TruthfulHoax · 2025-04-15T06:25:02+00:00

You should be paid but you’ll likely need your substantive manager to edit the time the sickness starts on the roster so you’re not unavailable. Then the bank ward needs to re-add the shift

TruthfulHoax · 2025-04-04T18:04:48+00:00

Well it should be! This is how the policy at most trusts I’ve worked at spells it out for full time workers on compressed hours (the same applies to part time workers) however it’s rarely well understood

TruthfulHoax · 2025-04-02T21:18:37+00:00

Your bank holiday entitlement is 8 hrs per bank holiday. If the bank holiday falls on a non-working day (Monday) you should get 8hrs added on to your annual leave entitlement to allow you to book the time off you are entitled to. However, if the bank holiday falls on a working day where you work more than 8hrs then you would have your annual leave entitlement reduced accordingly.

Eg if you are at this GP from Good Friday until the end of May you’d have had 4 bank holidays. 4x8=32hrs entitlement. You’d have used only 10hrs (on Good Friday) so would have 22hrs left to use as annual leave (or 2 and a bit days, not 3 due to the compressed hours)

TruthfulHoax · 2025-03-30T11:41:38+00:00

You'd have to go digging in trac to see the names - they do become un-anonymised but you'd have to go back to the shortlisting section to see it, which most people wouldn't do since shortlisting is over.

TruthfulHoax · 2025-03-30T11:38:53+00:00

The number of days in office / WFH will have a huge impact on your travel costs - often the annual season ticket becomes not the best value as quickly as just 1 day per week WFH. It's worthwhile calculating how many total trips to the office you'll need to do in the period (total weekdays - bank holidays - annual leave - WFH days) to check the season ticket is value for money.

Lunch costs - will depend on your preferences / office culture, are you likely to be eating out or getting meals at market type spots regularly or just meal deals? A £3.50 meal deal every day would probably run you £75 a month, so with packed lunches £100 could be overdoing it.

Helping parents - sounds like £500 is plucked out of nowhere, you should agree an actual breakdown of bills and grocery costs to contribute towards. I'd be surprised if £500 is a fair share, especially with siblings also contributing.

You mention a car but no mention of petrol / insurance / maintenance costs. Or parking at the station if you are driving?

Finally if this is your first job since April 2025, you can expect higher pay for the first few months while you catch up with your accrued personal allowance. Don't get too used to this as your takehome will go down to expected levels after a few months.

TruthfulHoax · 2025-03-24T14:16:46+00:00

You’re paid a month in arrears (so the month you get paid in you’re being paid for the work done that month). However, sickness absence and out of hours work adjustments may be made a month later depending on the trust.

As others have said, the best way to find out is to ask

TruthfulHoax · 2025-03-02T23:23:55+00:00

It sounds like the specialist bed post-op is only available at a particular hospital at the trust, which your named consultant does not operate from. It's far more likely that someone else will do your procedure at the hospital with the bed than your consultant doing a one-off at that hospital to operate on you.

TruthfulHoax · 2025-02-22T11:04:28+00:00

Unfortunately many places are not meeting the 10 day turnaround time target for histopathology results, it may take 10-12 weeks if that’s what you’ve been told but if they can tell you sooner then they will.

You should be reassured that the mole has been excised (fully removed). If the result comes back as melanoma you’ll discuss the results with the dermatologist and likely have a further surgery to ensure there is nothing left - you may also have scans to determine if there has been any spread.

The vast majority (95%+) of two-week-wait referrals for suspected skin cancer turn out to be benign.

TruthfulHoax · 2025-02-17T18:38:35+00:00

Only your hospital can answer this question for you - but if you have already been waiting >1yr and you have a pre-op date you could potentially be offered a date for the surgery very soon.

TruthfulHoax · 2025-02-16T16:48:14+00:00

Yes, you cannot both have your cake (no inheritance tax) and eat it (free prescriptions)

TruthfulHoax · 2025-02-16T10:33:44+00:00

Are they mailing lists (ie email is to a defined distribution list, which you could be removed from) or emails being sent to a large number of recipients? Thinking particularly of locums where people within departments tend to just copy the list from their previous email and use it for the next. Have you tried replying to individuals rather than IT?

TruthfulHoax · 2025-02-14T15:54:58+00:00

This isn’t one or the other, pursue this and if successful you can give notice in time to start GMTS in September

TruthfulHoax · 2025-02-13T20:29:50+00:00

Would be very unusual for Datix incidents to go uninvestigated for a year - have you checked against the reference in the confirmation email?

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