Payrise
Everyone at Nee Naw Control just got a sizeable payrise because of Agenda For Change. And reduced hours. And more annual leave.
We are very happy people.
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Everyone at Nee Naw Control just got a sizeable payrise because of Agenda For Change. And reduced hours. And more annual leave.
We are very happy people.
on April 28th, 2006 at 4:11 pm
Yayy! Enjoy - and a big fat ‘about time too’.
KJX
on April 28th, 2006 at 5:00 pm
Congratulations. Can I send in an application?
I suppose the commute would be a bit much though…
on April 28th, 2006 at 5:07 pm
You’re joking, surely? Everyone else seems to be complaining, as far as I can see.
Is this post for real?
on April 28th, 2006 at 5:25 pm
The crews got a bit of a raw deal (or rather, they got a small rise after being promised a big one) but Control were told that they were getting a raw deal (being banded with the cleaners, etc) and then actually got a rise…
on April 28th, 2006 at 5:52 pm
I wonder how the London banding compares with the banding elsewhere? (whatever they say about everyone being paid the same).
According to http://www.lancashireambulance.com/JobDetails.asp?job=140 (my local trust, HQ and control less than 2 miles away):
“Salary £11, 879 – £14, 739 (pay award pending) plus an ‘unsocial hours’ payment up to a maximum of 25% ”
that is “National NHS Terms and Conditions (Agenda for Change) Band 2, attracting a salary of £11, 879 to £14, 739″
That is for
“37.5 per week. Following successful completion of the initial training course, Emergency Medical Dispatchers (EMD’s) will work a pattern of shifts covering any 24 hour period, 365 days per year.”
If anyone want’s to apply you have untill 01/05/2006. (The link will also go down after that).
on April 28th, 2006 at 5:57 pm
well lucky you!! lets hope none of your EMTs read this!! They have been shafted. So please think before you post on how well you lot up in control have done out of AFC.
on April 28th, 2006 at 6:08 pm
We still get less than EMTs, and rightly so. In fact, I think their payrise was similar to ours - but they expected a lot more, whereas we expected to get shafted (and by shafted, I mean that we expected that the AFC rate to be lower, and for our pay to be frozen until inflation catches up, something the EMTs never considered).
No offence is intended to EMTs — I hope they’ll be happy for us. It’s not like we’ve got this rise at their expense.
PS. Smileykarl - It’d be nice if my readers were happy for us too
on April 28th, 2006 at 6:10 pm
Alex - my salary (is it bad manners to discuss your salary on your blog? I hope not) is now £16k (ish), plus £3k London Weighing and £4k 25% unsociable hours. That’s as a grade 2 EMD.
on April 28th, 2006 at 6:57 pm
I’m glad to hear you got a rise - just surprised initially. It’s always good when something nice happens to people you like, even if you don’t know them in the real world.
on April 28th, 2006 at 6:59 pm
Thanks Snoop. I bet you weren’t half as surprised as I was when I opened the letter this morning!
on April 28th, 2006 at 7:09 pm
Lucky you guys and congratualtions!
Me, I’ve been banded waaaay down, equating in a huge drop in pay. But I’m not bitter. Oh no. Not at all…..
on April 28th, 2006 at 7:16 pm
Radiographers got a bad deal - increased hours and no more money for doing them. 2 and a half hours extra per week, which apparently equates to doing 3 and a half extra *weeks* a year for the same money. Brilliant… = /
on April 28th, 2006 at 7:16 pm
Aww, sympathy. I hope you at least get your current pay frozen until the AFC rates catch up?
on April 28th, 2006 at 7:18 pm
Bah, I’m starting to feel guilty now… I’m sure that when they first mentioned this AFC business they said that 90% of people would be getting a better deal, but so far everyone I have spoken to is worse off. Who IS getting a rise? Managers, I bet…
on April 28th, 2006 at 10:33 pm
So. who is getting a pay rise out of AFC? ECPs that’s who.
Mine has nearly doubled from my para salary two years ago.
I do 2.5 hours less each week.
And do about a third of the work.
Nice eh?
No quite frankly it sucks! I’m bored sh*tless! My EMD friends got less than 10% of my increase and my EMT mates have had a right slap in the face. It’s bollox and it’s not fair. It just breeds resentment amongst colleagues. If money was what got me out of bed in the morning then I’d go back and work in the City. The whole AFC thing is complete crap, which is why I’m calling it a day.The NHS sucks and I’ve had enough.
If I can be arsed I might put up the final post on my blog about it!
on April 28th, 2006 at 10:35 pm
Luckily (in a weird way!) I actually only qualified last July so I’ve always been on AfC anyway, but the vast majority of my colleagues are going to get a shock when their hours change etc! You shouldn’t feel guilty though!! At least *someone* other than managers is getting more money, hehe
on April 29th, 2006 at 12:30 am
Crikey, Magwitch. No need to quit. I’m sure your colleagues would be sad to see you go, especially if they thought you were leaving over their poor pay rises. Maybe you could even things out a bit by buying them a beer every now and then rather than simply upping sticks.
on April 29th, 2006 at 2:12 am
Wooo! Nicely scored with the pay-raise. We in the armed forces got a nice 3.3% raise due to being flung far and wide. And getting shot at or morter’d.
And for those that didn’t, you’ve got my sympathy too - us techies are in the same pay band as chefs. But we have to spend 18months training compared to 8-15 weeks. Grrr!
on April 29th, 2006 at 9:46 am
Isnt it funny how operational staff expect our support for their wages but then begrudge us our pay rise.
on April 29th, 2006 at 11:52 am
Congratulations on your pay rise. I’m about to have my first ever work appraisal in the next month. Hopefully I will be getting a pay rise too and be even happier than I already am about my job. I’m an engineer by the way, not related to any Nee Naw work at all.
on April 30th, 2006 at 10:16 pm
I’ll simply echo the others in congratulating you. When are you taking your first leave?
on May 1st, 2006 at 12:28 am
Long time lurker, I thought you might be interested in this link from Australia.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,18985092-1242,00.html
on May 1st, 2006 at 3:24 pm
Bet you’re sorry you brought this up.
on May 2nd, 2006 at 7:56 pm
I’m still convinced that there are no winners from Agenda for Change. Here in the West Midlands we came within hours of striking over it and the final offer we accepted is still coming back to haunt us.
Yes, a lot of people have had pay rises as a result of A4C, but did you hear about hospital trusts making nurses redundant before A4C wages were being paid? No. I am confident this had all come about due to the extra cost of staff now and trusts cannot afford it.
Who’s to blame? The government for insisting on implementing this utopic, dare I say almost communist idea without the funds to back it up. I don’t think they realised how underpaid health service workers were…
on May 2nd, 2006 at 9:55 pm
Mark
It is fair to say that some EMTs (me included) have been shafted big style and have had our pay frozen. No pay rises for me for the next couple of years!
on May 2nd, 2006 at 10:18 pm
Really? I stand corrected then, I thought you’d all been given rises of some variety, not as big as you deserved.
on May 3rd, 2006 at 5:39 am
in scotland us control staff got shafted!
on May 3rd, 2006 at 8:42 pm
As an outside-LAS Tech, I’m very happy that your A4C payrise has been sorted and you’re getting a decent rate. I just wish they’d bleedin’ well hurry up and sort mine out!!!
Congratulations on making a satisfactory arrangement with The System!
(”,)
on May 4th, 2006 at 7:14 am
About bloody time.
on May 4th, 2006 at 3:21 pm
Just to be clear, I don’t begrudge control staff their payrise at all - I’ve spent time in the dark dingy control room and seen for myself what its like. Managers strutting around looking all important, leaving snotty notes on desks for EMDs who are on break. Compared to that, we get it easy on the road. EMDs being banded below secretaries et al is a bloody insult to EMDs.
on May 13th, 2006 at 8:02 am
Mark,
Haven’t been here for a while, but good to hear about the pay rise.
I hope things continue to improve, keep up the good work.
The Driving Instructor
on August 20th, 2006 at 1:45 am
unfortunatly this pay rise only happened for very few people/grades that work as emd’s in las……the rest were shafted big time
on August 20th, 2006 at 3:30 pm
No, it was everyone except the grade 1s.
on July 23rd, 2007 at 8:21 pm
Well EMD’s are being shafted in the Welsh Ambulance Trust…we’ve just been told we are on band 3 with allocators on band 5…who does all the work?? Not an allocator thats for sure
on August 11th, 2007 at 6:04 am
I for one am disgusted by band 3 for us EMD’s. Especially when you read the break down from the panel ‘ ‘Taking 999 calls of patients who have stopped breathing, giving CPR instructions, people choking, suicides and cot deaths, road traffic trauma etc, are said to be ‘RARE’ occurences!! Having just finished another night shift I can barely laugh at how innaccurate that is. I find it insulting.