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NHS

Why does NHS get a rating of 6.3?

Based on 9,917 job reviews, employees tell us the following about NHS

Based on 9,917 job reviews

About

The NHS is the UK’s publicly funded medical and healthcare provider.

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Pay ranges

  1. Nurses

    £12.54–21.15 per hour

  2. Care workers and assistants

    £9.00–11.22 per hour

  3. Administrators

    £9.00–12.82 per hour

  4. Nursing assistants

    £9.11–11.73 per hour

  5. Receptionists

    £8.65–10.56 per hour

  6. Advanced nurse practitioners

    £17.53–28.04 per hour

  7. Midwives

    £14.41–22.76 per hour

  8. Medical secretaries

    £9.20–12.82 per hour

  9. Radiographers

    £12.96–22.87 per hour

  10. Paramedics

    £12.31–21.13 per hour

  11. Cleaners and domestics

    £9.00–11.06 per hour

  12. Physiotherapists

    £12.62–23.45 per hour

  13. Personal assistants and secretaries

    £9.60–14.69 per hour

  14. Occupational therapists

    £12.82–22.27 per hour

  15. Operating department practitioners

    £12.74–19.91 per hour

  16. Biomedical scientists

    £11.45–22.35 per hour

  17. Pharmacy technicians

    £11.05–20.10 per hour

  18. Pharmacy assistants

    £8.45–11.02 per hour

  19. Phlebotomists

    £9.06–11.48 per hour

  20. Porters

    £9.08–10.68 per hour

  21. Health visitors

    £15.63–21.79 per hour

  22. Pharmacists

    £15.90–31.92 per hour

  23. Dental nurses

    £9.29–15.53 per hour

  24. Housekeepers

    £9.00–10.79 per hour

  25. Emergency medical technicians

    £9.39–17.57 per hour

  26. Matrons

    £18.99–26.18 per hour

  27. Kitchen and catering assistants

    £9.00–9.93 per hour

  28. Clinical support workers

    £8.93–11.48 per hour

  29. Support workers

    £9.09–12.99 per hour

  30. Call and contact centre staff

    £8.86–12.64 per hour

  31. Emergency care assistants

    £9.29–13.12 per hour

  32. Nursery nurses and assistants

    £9.88–13.32 per hour

  33. Social workers

    £9.59–19.61 per hour

  34. Senior care workers

    £9.15–12.14 per hour

  35. Service engineers

    £12.26–20.10 per hour

  36. Chefs

    £9.07–10.48 per hour

  37. Facilities managers

    £15.02–24.64 per hour

  38. Warehouse operatives

    £8.91–12.86 per hour

  39. Vehicle mechanics and technicians

    £10.88–17.64 per hour

  40. Electricians

    £12.39–18.74 per hour

  41. Security guards

    £9.18–10.88 per hour

  42. Retail and sales assistants

    £7.55–10.90 per hour

  43. Delivery drivers and couriers

    £8.61–11.56 per hour

  44. Plumbers & gas engineers

    £12.39–21.78 per hour

Handy to know

How much notice do people get of their shifts?

9%
8%
11%
57%
15%

Based on 7,421 employees

What contracts are people on?

7%
3%
48%
41%

Based on 4,066 employees

How often do people get paid?

Monthly 91% of people report they get paid monthly

Based on 9,846 employees

How are people paid?

42%
by the hour
58%
an annual salary

Based on 9,917 employees

Featured NHS job reviews

  • Best thing

    Making a real difference to patients and their families. If I have a good day, I’ll get to spend lots of time with my patients, do things like wash their hair, make them feel cared for etc. I’ll feel like I’m giving treatments that are making people better and see improvements in someone’s health. I’ll get on well with my team including doctors and other AHP’s. When you have a good day you really really love this job.

    Worst thing

    Feeling burnt out due to poor staffing levels and skill mix. Feeling guilty about not having the time to give good care to patients. Sometimes you are so busy you miss things and feel so guilty, but there is nothing you could have done differently because of factors outside of your control like staffing levels. Not always getting breaks, we are supposed to take two half hour breaks on a 12 hour shift, most days I’ll just have one 20 minute break in the morning. Always leaving an hour late. Having a poor work like balance, this job becomes your life.

    5.5

    Deputy sister, March 2021

    • Manages people
    • £16.04 per hour
    • 25 or older
    • More than 3 years experience

  • Best thing

    Being able to talk to different people on a daily basis.
    Attending the helipad and feeling like part of an elite team.
    Walking and maintaining a good level of fitness.
    Banter with other portering colleagues.
    Feeling like you are helping people.

    Worst thing

    Seeing some not very things stuff including bad patients off the helicopter, mortuary jobs (child and adult) very sick patients.

    Covid has been a massive stress and we have seen more death than my 2 years combined working there beforehand.

    Aggressive and intimidating patients, I have been assaulted twice in 3 years.

    Sometimes being made to feel worthless by higher members of staff

    6.8

    Porter, March 2021

    • £18,000 per year, working a 40 hour week
    • 21–24 years old
    • 1–3 years experience

  • Best thing

    Very satisfying work. Good job if you like people. Well resourced. Good company ethos. Enormous camaraderie...even internationally!

    Worst thing

    Exorbitant paperwork. Low staff numbers that are deemed safe. Learning highly skilled jobs but not being financially rewarded for taking on extended role. Stress. Physically very demanding. Diminishes own health (working nights, going without meals, drinking too little). Genuine risk to your own health...e.g. TB, COVID etc

    7.4

    Nurse, December 2020

    • £26,000 per year, working a 35 hour week
    • 25 or older
    • More than 3 years experience

  • Best thing

    I enjoy helping and caring for most people that are in my care, my colleagues are a great inspiration to me on stressful shifts

    Worst thing

    Having rude, demanding patients with no right to reply, having far to heavy workload for the staffing levels at times with higher management, in my opinion, having little understanding of what really happens on the Shop floor, and no hope of a pay rise for such a stressful job especially in these unprecedented times!

    6.0

    Healthcare assistant, November 2020

    • £9.88 per hour
    • 25 or older
    • More than 3 years experience
See all 2373 NHS job reviews

Jobs by location

  1. Greater London

    432 job openings

  2. Greater Manchester

    77 job openings

  3. Lanarkshire

    71 job openings

  4. West Midlands

    70 job openings

  5. Devon

    65 job openings

  6. North Yorkshire

    59 job openings

  7. Berkshire

    52 job openings

  8. Surrey

    48 job openings

  9. Hampshire

    46 job openings

  10. Essex

    45 job openings

  11. South Yorkshire

    41 job openings

  12. Bristol

    35 job openings

  13. Oxfordshire

    35 job openings

  14. Merseyside

    32 job openings

  15. West Yorkshire

    31 job openings

  16. Norfolk

    30 job openings

  17. Kent

    29 job openings

  18. Somerset

    29 job openings

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NHS ranks joint 22nd to work for in healthcare

  1. 22= Ambulance Service
    6.3
  2. 22= NHS
    6.3
  3. 22= NHS Scotland
    6.3
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