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Originally Posted by Ammi
…it’s the same in education, any one ‘band’ has to have equality of salary …over the recent years it’s tended to be less about experience in staff and more about a lower band so that the salaries are kept as low as possible…
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Me and my wife were talking about this re: the NHS the other day actually... once you get to band 7+ those are ward management/service management grades, so realistically the on-ward nurses doing most of the medical procedures etc. will often be maxed out at "top of band 5"... whether they've been a nurse for 5 years or 20 years. There should be SOME way to recognise that level of experience in the pay structure, but there isn't currently, the only way to increase salary after 5 years on a band is to get a job the next band up... and that usually means a change of role/type of work that not everyone wants. And like I said, at 7+ it generally means being less hands-on... definitely in a hospital setting anyway (lots of band 7 community roles with plenty of patient contact). Not everyone wants that but where's the incentive to retain that vast experience on the wards?
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