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    NHS Reviews

    Updated 22 October 2017
    695 reviews

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    NHS CEO Simon Stevens
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    133 Ratings

    695 Employee Reviews

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    Pros

    • Work-life balance and flexi-working are very beneficial (in 25 reviews)

    • Good pension (which I'll never actually receive) (in 31 reviews)

    Cons

    • I don't believe there are any cons but if you don't like working long hours or people this really is not the job for you (in 42 reviews)

    • No work/life balance and no appreciation for the hard work put in (in 17 reviews)

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    1. "Supportive employer, excellent job security"

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      Current Employee - Doctor in Edinburgh, Scotland
      Current Employee - Doctor in Edinburgh, Scotland
      Recommends
      Neutral Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I have been working at NHS full-time (Less than a year)

      Pros

      Good community, opportunities to develop, security

      Cons

      Pay cuts, rota gaps, over-stretched

    2. "Less time"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I have been working at NHS full-time (More than 10 years)

      Pros

      Great colleagues. Some fantastic clients.

      Cons

      Not enough time to work to work with clients.

      Advice to Management

      Employ more people.

    3. "Physician's Assistant Anaesthesia"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I have been working at NHS full-time

      Pros

      academic centre
      lots of research opportunities
      Anaesthesia Department wonderful people
      good standard of patient care
      CEO emphasis on teaching perfectly aligns with academic hospital

      Cons

      short staffed on wards, chronic NHS problem

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    4. "Work Ethics"

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      Former Employee - Porter/Security Supervisor in Newcastle upon Tyne, England
      Former Employee - Porter/Security Supervisor in Newcastle upon Tyne, England
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook

      I worked at NHS full-time (More than 10 years)

      Pros

      Great teamwork, and advancement, available.

      Cons

      Shift work. Patterns can be bad

      Advice to Management

      Let your staff do their work !!

    5. "good"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at NHS full-time

      Pros

      friendly envirnoment,good learning place, good learning oppurtunities

      Cons

      strict timings,no flexible working hours

      Advice to Management

      good managment

    6. "Porter"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I worked at NHS part-time

      Pros

      Good holidays, brakes, and pay , a lot of support,

      Cons

      The shifts were often under staffed

    7. "only respect"

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      Current Employee - Senior Research Scientist in Nottingham, England
      Current Employee - Senior Research Scientist in Nottingham, England
      Recommends
      Neutral Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at NHS full-time (More than 8 years)

      Pros

      Great people who do a great and important job.

      Cons

      it is a bit of a monolith and if you are not involved in direct patient care, you can get lost.

      Advice to Management

      Keep it up! it's a tough job but good managers are needed to keep the whole system functioning.

    8. "Grd Management trainee"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee

      Pros

      Less pay, extra work

      Cons

      great work experience with the industry leaders

      Advice to Management

      be well prepapred as to why you want to get into this scheme

    9. "Paediatric Consultant Gastroenterology"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Neutral Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      I have been working at NHS full-time (More than 8 years)

      Pros

      Excellent managment, growing service, well supported both with resources and allied specialists.

      Cons

      NHS bureaucracy is onerous and endless. Hospital infrastructure is developing fast but lags behind many other european centres.

    10. "Good benefits"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I have been working at NHS part-time

      Pros

      Incremental payments for unsociable hours working ( weekends, evening, bank holidays), good amount of annual leave, 6 months full sick pay.

      Cons

      Monotonous job, management don't listen, workplace culture

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