NHS Reviews
66% would recommend to a friend
(10494 total reviews)
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Top Review Highlights by Sentiment
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- "Ability to train on many different areas Progression through the bands Stable and good pension 3 days a week on wards" (in 581 reviews)
- "Even during the pandemic you go home feeling accomplished and the people I work with are great" (in 463 reviews)
- "Low pay and expected to do basically everything and learn everything in short period of time" (in 606 reviews)
- "High demand for very few spaces in hospitals and surgeries and sometimes long hours but definitely worth it in the end." (in 531 reviews)
Found 10,494 of over 12K reviews
Updated 4 Dec 2023
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- 5.04 Dec 2023NurseCurrent Employee, less than 1 yearLondon, England
Pros
It is challenging and helps develop
Cons
It is very busy and understaffed
- 1.023 Oct 2023Admin AssistantCurrent Employee
Pros
You gain skills like communication when on the front desk.
Cons
No one wants to take the liability in NHS, throwing their responsibility or work onto others. The pay is really bad in NHS, you could be doing 20 different tasks everyday e.g referral, dealing with patient and hospital queries, dealing with prescriptions, scanning, booking patients in, going to meetings, training, long waiting hours for patient due to lack of doctors and then patients getting angry on frontline receptionist because they have been waiting for hours, just to find out the answer to nothing etc no matter how well you do, the pay will never go up. Lack of Nurses and doctors. sorry to say this but NHS has really become more of a business than a health care organisation. Such a shame.
- 1.027 Oct 2023Operations ManagerFormer Employee, less than 1 yearTorquay, England
Pros
High levels of bureaucracy and inefficiency can allow lazy or conniving administrative staff with a poor moral compass to create a role for themselves with very little responsibility. Delegating tasks to subordinates whilst appearing on the surface, to be hard at work on long-term projects.
Cons
Leadership is poor, resembling a children’s birthday party. As a manager, you will spend your time suffering through pointless meetings listening to how others feel about a topic, often not related to the agenda of the meeting. Rather than being involved with a proactive discussion centred around evaluating possible solutions. I promise this will destroy you if you have come from the private sector. To know you are now contributing to inefficiencies so preposterous, that they would see leadership teams dismissed in limited or public companies. Will infuriate any good manager.
- 5.04 Dec 2023Administration AssistantCurrent Employee, more than 10 yearsLondon, England
Pros
Flexibility, pick your times, Nhs perks
Cons
Lots of Managers in one Department
- 3.03 Dec 2023Registered NurseFormer Employee
Pros
to be able to give care to those in need.
Cons
Too many in need unable to deal with the quantity with the resources and time provided
- 4.03 Dec 2023Team LeaderCurrent Employee, more than 3 yearsHuntingdon, England
Pros
not good pay band, because other part of the country people on same band earns more
Cons
holidays start is 27 days per year plus bank holiday
- 4.03 Dec 2023Administrative ManagerCurrent Employee, more than 1 yearManchester, England
Pros
Rewarding work, Good Training Available, Good Employee Benefits
Cons
High Workload, Cover multiple job roles in addition to your own, Low pay
- 3.04 Dec 2023Staff NurseCurrent EmployeeBasildon, East of England, England
Pros
condensed working week, sense of satisfaction helping others
Cons
increasing pressures, budget cuts, poor pay in relation to skill set
- 4.04 Dec 2023Healthcare AssistantCurrent Employee
Pros
It was a good experience
Cons
Can get very busy on shift
- 4.04 Dec 2023Administrative AssistantFormer Employee, more than 1 yearBarnet, England
Pros
Flexible and lots of training
Cons
Hard to progress as others didn’t leave or Move on
NHS Reviews FAQs
NHS has an overall rating of 3.7 out of 5, based on over 11,977 reviews left anonymously by employees. 66% of employees would recommend working at NHS to a friend and 46% have a positive outlook for the business. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months.
66% of NHS employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews. Employees also rated NHS 3.2 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.5 for culture and values and 3.6 for career opportunities.
