How much notice?

[horseshoes]

My short fixed term contract is to terminate on 30th September. I have the chance of another job. How much notice am I obliged to give to my employer (the NHS). I have been ringing the HR department practically all day and there is no answer! I have to give some kind of answer on the new job which is why I need to know today. Thank you

[factor-fiction]

Depends on your contract (didn't you get details in writing) but it's unlikely to be more than a month. Statutory notice will be less i think. How long have you been there?

[T&S]

Can't speak for you, but my Mrs works for the NHS and she had to work 2 months notice.

[mccfluff]

you really need to check your contract as its short term it could be just a week but maybe a month. it tends to be senior staff who have to give longer notice periods

[China Doll]

Anything up to a band 5 is generally a month, I think after a band 5 is a longer notice period. However, don't think that this means you can give your notice today and be out in precisely one month! They'll probably have annual leave type thingies to take in to account etc... Your manager should actually be able to tell you, you shouldn't need to call HR.

[ummmm]

China...can you tell me what these bands stand for please?

[yelenots]

i work for the Council, in a school, and I am on a temporary contract which ends next month and I only have to give them 1 week - have a look on your contract

[China Doll]

Sure... :c)

It's the grading system for administrative and clerical and clinical jobs (not including directors/dentists/doctors) that came about after agenda for change. Before that, they were all seperated out. So a band 5 for example means you have to have a degree or equivalent level of experience to do the job, as far as I'm aware, all newly clinically trained staff come in at that (nurses, therapists etc), it's a fairly high level for admin and pretty much I think the last admin level that high before you end up being some sort of manager or very speicalised role.

Bands 2 & 3 tend to be health care assistants (any ward) and reception staff or quite junior admin posts.

Bands 6 and above imply a specialty so you'd be a specialist nurse or a particularly senior nurse or practitioner or administrator, can't remember what the requirements are and a band 7 would at need to be at least a masters level (or equivalent) in terms of qualifications. The highest is a band 9 and I only know of two people at this level from my old trust, the chief pharmacist and the professor of the physcists (something to do with radiotherapy and running the equipment).

That alright?

[ummmm]

Thanks for that :-)

Looking to go back to work now. I don't know how I stumbled into my hospital job but the banding put me off applying again...

I was just a healthcare assistant in a psychiatric hospital...

[China Doll]

Erm... Well bearing in mind, I've not done the job profiling and banding since about 2005(!) I think it would depend on the level of experience what you could go in at because all though they write what qualifications you should have they also write 'equivelant experience'.. Obviously not every PA has a degree for example but some have worked for the NHS for over ten years (that type of thing) in a variety of areas. Also, we didn't have psych nurses and HCA's at the hospital I was working in so that might be different.

I don't know what book keeping would be but perhaps it might be soemthing that could be used in finance of payroll areas?

Anyhow, the NHS job site is very good and you can check out the person specifications for jobs as well and search by bands etc... Have a look at that :c)

[horseshoes]

Thanks one and all. I got through eventually (didn't want to ask my manager). I have to give 1 month notice. If I had been there less than 6 months, then it could have been a week.