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#26270 - 21/10/07 05:55 PM
Review of national recruitment and retention
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Chris Watts
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Registered: 21/12/04
Posts: 135
Loc: UBHT
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Just looking at the NHS Employers website to see if the new pay circular has been issued ( yes it has ) when I noticed that the website has a few problems and instead of linking to the pay and conditions (which is actually further down the page) it actually links to a review on national recruitment and retention for maintainance craft workers which states:
“The national RRP should continue to be paid for qualified maintenance craft workers because nationally agreed rates are higher in the external private sector labour market than in the NHS and without the RRP pay levels would be uncompetitive”
Later it states that RRP's should be paid to maintaince craft workers who are required to hold electrical, engineering, plumbing or mechanical qualifications.
So is anybody actually receiving RRP not just instead of pay protection but such that pay levels are competitive with the private sector? I surely doubt it!
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#26274 - 21/10/07 10:50 PM
Re: Review of national recruitment and retention
[Re: JohnBhoy]
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Chris Watts
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Registered: 21/12/04
Posts: 135
Loc: UBHT
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We do not receive RRP, because our pay is equivalent to the private sector. We are by definition not craft workers and there is not a national skills shortage for our positions.
Just looking at the jobs on nhs jobs website and it can clearly be seen that even though under agenda for change a similar job in one trust should be on the same band in the another it just isn't happening. I've often noticed posts with similar roles advertised from anything from band 4 to 6, there was even one rare one at band 3 looking for X-ray experience! Perhaps some trusts are advertising higher bands instead of applying RRP?
It might be that technically by definition we are not craft workers but we are probably the ones who would hold the qualifications listed. Building craft workers were not included in this which counts out most estates departments, then again perhaps this statement was supposed to be intentionally woolly so no one actually qualifies!
But can anbody answer why Reading do not get London Outer fringe allowance?
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#26279 - 22/10/07 10:32 AM
Re: Review of national recruitment and retention
[Re: Chris Watts]
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Paul Allum
Technologist
Registered: 30/11/05
Posts: 40
Loc: Kent
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The actual section on these rrp's is annex R of the AFC Terms and conditions handbook which states
"Qualified Maintenance Craftspersons and Qualified Maintenance
Technicians......who require full electrical, plumbing or mechanical crafts qualifications"
These are the only people who are eligible for a guaranteed rrp,
Qualified Medical Technical Officers and Estates Officers/Works Officers although eligible for a national rrp have no set level, so most trusts set it to £0
So, if, before AFC, you were classed as a maintenance technician, and your current JD or person spec. requires you to have a mechanical or electrical crafts qualification, then you have a good case. If you were an MTO then, in my experience, you have as much chance as the proverbial chocolate teapot no matter what qualification you hold.
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I suspect for more trusts it's more to do with financial standing, ie they won't pay rrp unless there's a drastic impact to service.
