which JOB do I take?

[evedawn]

I work for the NHS. I am on fixed term contract which expires soon.

However, I have been lucky enough to re-interview for the job that I am currently doing ... (NHS red tape etc!!!) and was accepted. My manager worked really hard to convince the Trust that my role was vital and...that I was the best person for the job.

Anyway...I verbally accepted a week and a half ago ...but am awaiting contracts to sign, CRB check etc etc etc.

In the meantime I interviewed for a job today (also NHS but different Trust)and...I got it!!! This job is more suited to me (although the salary which is roughly the same) and I want to accept this job instead. But...I feel guilty as my current manager really did pull out all the stops to keep me in post.

How do I resign AND keep my good integrity? I do not want to muck anyone about.

[evedawn]

Oh perhaps I ought to have explained better ...my current contract expires soon but when I re interviewed for "same" job it was "re-offered" to me on a two year contract.

[evedawn]

Well I've typed up my resignation.oooeeerr nervous as I hope I'm doing right thing.

[rowanwitch]

go with the job you most want to do...is the second job a permanent contract if so no contest anyway

[evedawn]

Ta rowan. I DO like my current job but there us one aspect (invoicing) which I loath (I have not got ahead for numbers and I find it tough!!)thisnew job willbe medical secretary rather than medical administrator and yes .... It's more my style.

[boxtops]

HI evedawn - oooh ---- you are so lucky in the current climate to have the choice!

I've been exactly where you are, some years back. Our organisation was merging and I was interviewed for my "new" job in the new organisation and I got it. Phew. Then I saw my current job being advertised, and I wanted it so much, that I applied, and I got it. Then I had to tell my bosses, sorry, I'm not coming with you to the new place. They were not best pleased, as then they had to readvertise etc... but they recruited someone ideal for the new organisation, who filled the role in a different way to me and did it very well. I meanwhile found a job I love and which I have now done for the past fourteen years.

Think a bit about security - is the new job in a provider Trust, so has some future in all the forthcoming changes? Our PCT jobs will go anyway in 2013 when the PCTs go, so we either get TUPEd or look for something else as yet to be decided.
TBH, if you want the new job, then go for it. You will feel that others have paved the way for you to stay in the current job, and it's a bit disloyal, but it's your future that you have to think of, and the opportunities which that might bring to you as the NHS changes.

Good luck - if my experience is anything to go by, you won't regret it. Let us know how you get on!

[boxtops]

^^ I mean - it feels a bit disloyal, not that you're being disloyal, you are certainly NOT - it's every man for themselves, in the current reorganisations!

[evedawn]

Box I am so glad if on this morning as I always really value your advice! Thanks

[kinell]

cant see that there is an integrity problem here....

fixed/short term contracts work both ways.....either party can walk away with integrity intact...

do you have to resign? if there is only a short time to go before the end of your current contract can you let it run to expiry and time your new start date to co-incide with that?

your potential new employer should appreciate that you take your current (and future)commitments seriously...