Nurses Pay
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Would anyone be willing to share what they pay their nurse? As a result of the receptionist survey it appears that we may be underpaying our staff.
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Just to let you know we pay comparable rates of pay to our Receptionists and Nurses. I know of quite a few practices that pay the same rate to both.
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Trainee £7.00ph, qualified £8.50-9.50ph depending on years of service.
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£9.50 for qualified.
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Our trainee nurses start on National Minimum wage for their age group. We then reward loyalty, by adding 10p per hour on completion of probationary period.
We add 50p per hour when they qualify, and also to reward extra qualifications that are relevant to our practice (eg my head nurse got extra when she did a sedation course, because it is needed and used) Don't pay them extra if the just fancy an extra qualification that is no use to you.
We also reward taking on of extra responsibilities, but my Head Nurse is paid a lump sum every month, rather than increasing pay.
We used to add between 10p and 30p, depending on length of service, on the anniversary of start date, but that was too time consuming, so I changed it to twice a year. We haven't done this this year because times are tough, but I am still adding the NMW increase, as that is our starting point.
Highest paid nurse is on just under £10.00 per hour.
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Our nurses range from £8.00 per hour, most of them are on £11.00 per hours and I have a senior nurse who is on £17.00 per hour. Hope this helps. We are in Newport South Wales.
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Our trainee nurses have just gone up from £7.95 to £8.11, with a bigger rise anticipated when they pass their exam this year – probably another £1 an hour.
Nurse with several years experience but no other responsibilities than her dentist now £10.66 and head nurse with responsibility to mentor juniors, check emergency drugs and do/delegate ordering, also with 10+ years experience with us gets £11.63. She is able to work on reception.
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We have 3 nurses here at The Smile Team. 2 of the nurses have been at the practice for nearly 20 years and their pay is £11.50 per hour with £46 a month loyalty bonus. Neither of the nurses have any other qualifications. The other nurse has just joined us as a newly qualified nurse and is still in her probation period she is on £9.50 per hour with the scope to go up according to performance and loyalty.
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Our rates are as follows: Senior nurses £10.92, General nurses £10.35, Trainee nurse £7.20.
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We are a practice in Central London and our nurses get between £11 to £12.50 per hour.
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We pay between £10 and £12 per hour according to experience.
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We here in Norfolk pay between £6.80 (apprentice) to £8.60 to our nurses.
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I have 1 nurse who has been with us since Jan 2002. She qualified in June 2006 & passed her radiography exam in Dec 2008, although as we are a small single handed practice she has not really had the opportunity to use this qualification.
She is paid £9.70/hour.
The other has worked for us since Jan 2009 she qualified in Dec 2009 & is paid £8.75/hr
Our working day is 7.5 hours but we pay 8 hours daily to cover any hours worked over
We pay the nurses registration fee, membership to the British Dental Nurse association & also their CPD through the FMC publication cpd in practice
Staff employed prior to 2008 also have private health insurance
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We are in Bath and we pay £8.32 per hour.
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Approximately £9.50 – £10.50 per hour
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We pay our nurses from £7 (unqualified but training) – £11 per hour dependent on additional qualifications such as sedation training and additional responsibilities.
Download the Result from the BDA 2010 DCP Pay Survey
