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NHS Scotland is Scotland’s publicly funded medical and healthcare provider.

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NHS Scotland job reviews

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  • Best thing

    Hours and pay seem to be good

    Worst thing

    Management like in most places have their favourites

    9.9

    NHS Scotland Warehouse operative, June 2023

  • Best thing

    Helpful and friendly team
    Training

    Worst thing

    Busy times and short staffed

    9.8

    NHS Scotland Health care assistant, November 2022

  • Best thing

    The people I work with

    Worst thing

    The odd patient here or there can be very nasty

    8.0

    NHS Scotland Administrator, November 2022

  • Best thing

    Knowing I'm helping people

    Worst thing

    Pressure short staffed,night shift is worse half the staff but can be just as busy,constantly moving patients to other wards during the night when they were asleep, not good

    7.6

    NHS Scotland Healthcare assistant, April 2022

  • Best thing

    Helping people stay independant

    Worst thing

    Office politics. Favouritism

    7.8

    NHS Scotland Support worker, April 2022

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  • Best thing

    Staff and patients.

    Worst thing

    Staff shortages

    7.1

    NHS Scotland Employee, March 2022

  • Best thing

    Patients

    Worst thing

    Understaffed and not enough beds

    6.4

    NHS Scotland Employee, March 2022

  • Best thing

    Nice team of people

    Worst thing

    Need longer rotas

    8.2

    NHS Scotland Employee, March 2022

  • Best thing

    Amazing colleagues

    Worst thing

    Poor pay due to working at a GP practice and being employed directly by the GPS’s so they can pay what they want and don’t have to pay the same rates as hospital receptionists that do less work than we do

    7.7

    NHS Scotland Medical receptionist, March 2022

  • Best thing

    The best team I have ever worked with, all very kind, caring and compassionate and incredibly helpful.

    Worst thing

    Way too busy, whereas others in similar roles have more staff, unfair treatment.

    6.3

    NHS Scotland Employee, February 2022

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  • Best thing

    Flexible working hours
    Some good colleagues

    Worst thing

    Stressful situations
    Lack of understanding
    Lack of communication
    Cancelled clinics, theatre sessions
    Waiting times

    4.6

    NHS Scotland Medical secretary, January 2022

  • Best thing

    The team environment is amazing and everyone helps out

    Worst thing

    It can be a highly stressful job with long 12 hour shifts

    9.8

    NHS Scotland Health care assistant, December 2021

  • Best thing

    Job satisfaction, time off

    Worst thing

    Late finishes, interrupted meal breaks, constant hospital vehicle stacking

    8.5

    NHS Scotland Ambulance technician, September 2021

  • Best thing

    I love my job and my boss, every single member of staff stepped up during covid

    Worst thing

    The patients are beginning to be very rude to us as they feel they should be seen face to face and this is because of the message that the government are giving out that GP practices and the NHS are getting back to normal. Which they are not

    9.8

    NHS Scotland Administrator, September 2021

  • Best thing

    Getting to look after people

    Worst thing

    Pay, hours, pressure, lack of progression, impossible to get further training

    1.1

    NHS Scotland Healthcare support worker, September 2021

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  • Best thing

    Chatting with the patients and seeing them recover

    Worst thing

    Patients lashing out coming round from anaesthesia and the injuries/RSI's from frequent intensive physical lifting

    8.2

    NHS Scotland Healthcare assistant, August 2021

  • Best thing

    the people the staff one family

    Worst thing

    when i'm no longer needed :(

    9.5

    NHS Scotland Employee, July 2021

  • Best thing

    I be been in the NHS for 40 yrs it must be a good place to work for

    Worst thing

    Driving in all weathers

    9.9

    NHS Scotland HCSW, July 2021

  • Best thing

    The satisfaction of helping people as best you can

    Worst thing

    Phone from distressed people who have lost a loved one

    9.8

    NHS Scotland Employee, July 2021

  • Best thing

    Team comradeship

    Worst thing

    Communication
    Not feeling valued

    7.3

    NHS Scotland Personal assistant, July 2021

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  • Best thing

    The work itself

    Worst thing

    Managers attitude to things

    9.6

    NHS Scotland Employee, July 2021

  • Best thing

    The team

    Worst thing

    Pay, stress, abuse

    9.8

    NHS Scotland Medical receptionist, July 2021

  • Best thing

    Absolutely nothing!

    Worst thing

    Team mate doesn't want me there even though I was employed to help them.

    4.1

    NHS Scotland Admin assistant, July 2021

  • Best thing

    Job Security, working hours, and leave allowance.

    Worst thing

    It can be repetitive.

    9.4

    NHS Scotland Employee, June 2021

  • Best thing

    Caring for the patient

    Worst thing

    Stress.

    7.3

    NHS Scotland Health care assistant, June 2021

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  • Best thing

    Good team work

    Worst thing

    not sure

    9.4

    NHS Scotland Employee, June 2021

  • Best thing

    Near to home

    Worst thing

    Stress levels are massive staff morale is very low

    6.0

    NHS Scotland Administrator, June 2021

  • Best thing

    You get to look after people when their in need

    Worst thing

    Being treated like a child , and often our environment isn’t very safe for clientele or staff

    2.8

    NHS Scotland HCSW, June 2021

  • Best thing

    rotaatt

    Worst thing

    attitude of some managers

    6.1

    NHS Scotland Employee, June 2021

  • Best thing

    My team and the job diversity

    Worst thing

    The stress and the job diversity

    5.0

    NHS Scotland Employee, June 2021

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  • Best thing

    The pay and conditions

    Worst thing

    Very little support, lots of bullying tactics used for mgmt to get their own way

    4.6

    NHS Scotland Call handler, June 2021

  • Best thing

    Dynamic and opportunity

    Worst thing

    Double standards, not follow polices ,lack equality ,lack training, bank staff is marginalized. Difficulties in team work as people are trained om defeferent standards or not full train to do task safe

    4.6

    NHS Scotland HCSW, June 2021

  • Best thing

    Being able to care for people just out of surgery. Making them smile when their down or had bad news.

    Worst thing

    Not enough staff

    7.5

    NHS Scotland Healthcare support worker, June 2021

  • Best thing

    Holidays and pension

    Worst thing

    People attitude and management structure

    6.7

    NHS Scotland Administrator, May 2021

  • Best thing

    Feeling of eventual achievement

    Worst thing

    Not enough staff. Lack of encouragement/support

    6.9

    NHS Scotland Medical secretary, May 2021

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  • Best thing

    Flexibility, great colleagues, excellent manager who really cares about their staff

    Worst thing

    Abusive patients, job workload and lack of appointments

    10

    NHS Scotland Medical receptionist, May 2021

  • Best thing

    Love my team apart from managing who have never even introduced themselves to us

    Worst thing

    Management don’t have a clue

    3.7

    NHS Scotland Healthcare assistant, May 2021

  • Best thing

    Banter between the team

    Worst thing

    Constant stress and pressure being piled on by other projects and expecting the service desk to absorb the fallout. No budget to increase staff for the service desk yet expected to deal with increasing workloads as other dept increase staff. Measures put in place to assist mental health now being withdrawn as covid crisis is easing. NHS great at looking after the mental health of the nation provided you don't actually work for the NHS

    4.5

    NHS Scotland Employee, May 2021

  • Best thing

    Helping people

    Worst thing

    Unsociable hours but I wouldn’t change it if I had the choice

    9.0

    NHS Scotland HCSW, May 2021

  • Best thing

    Satisfaction watching people recovering from illness, working with a brilliant team of nurses

    Worst thing

    Sadness when patients don’t recover, negativity of other people, upset relatives and knowing no matter what you say nothing makes them feel better

    10

    NHS Scotland Health care assistant, May 2021

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  • Best thing

    Part time hours

    Worst thing

    Uncertainty over shifts

    3.3

    NHS Scotland Medical receptionist, May 2021

  • Best thing

    Colleagues we all look out fir each other’s

    Worst thing

    Shifts given at last minute and nurses are horrible to work with

    1.8

    NHS Scotland Employee, May 2021

  • Best thing

    I love my job bug it’s hard going

    Worst thing

    Managers who don’t know what they are doing

    7.8

    NHS Scotland Supervisor, April 2021

  • Best thing

    Enjoy some of the tasks.

    Worst thing

    Verbal abuse on phone

    7.3

    NHS Scotland Medical secretary, April 2021

  • Best thing

    Jobs good

    Worst thing

    Management and communication

    8.6

    NHS Scotland Ambulance care assistant, April 2021

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  • Best thing

    My hours off work and rate off pay

    Worst thing

    Lack off staff due to work load and High demand

    2.1

    NHS Scotland Receptionist, April 2021

  • Best thing

    Job satisfaction Location, parking, hours , benefits

    Worst thing

    Staff attitude

    9.2

    NHS Scotland Pharmacy technician, April 2021

  • Best thing

    Love my team

    Worst thing

    Long days and can be emotionally draining

    9.1

    NHS Scotland Clinical support worker, April 2021

  • Best thing

    Job security

    Worst thing

    Rude patients, lack of appointments, rude gps

    3.0

    NHS Scotland Medical receptionist, April 2021

  • Best thing

    Helping others

    Worst thing

    Taking verbal abuse from others

    2.7

    NHS Scotland Employee, April 2021