Yes
Saturday is 1.5 times normal pay
Sunday is 1.75 times normal pay
Public holidays are 2.5 times normal pay
Normal pay in NSW is $ 93 an hour which is about 55 pounds at the moment
We work 10 hour shifts so working the weekend gives you an extra $1200 ( 700 pounds )
So I does make quite a difference
We have a few people who do work more weekends purely because it pays better than the weekdays
andy
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Nambour ED in SE Queensland, information recent and up to date as my boss there, now retired, came over few weeks ago
I think they have similar WTE to andrew stearmans dept.
it should b noted that there is financial incentive in queensland for weekend work...I am not sure whther same / similar bonus payments apply in NSW Andy?
dr mark f nicol
emergency medicine consultant
The Flying Scotsman Ltd.
CAA Aviation Medical Examiner 20161
On Wednesday, 16 October 2013, 19:05, Prescott Mark <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Interested to know from Mark about the system now in Australia that he refers to - what are the working arrangements at weekends of all the In-patient specialities when the ED Consultants are working 3-up.?
It is funny how so much pressure and attention is focussed into our departments and so much less into ward-ways of OOHs working
Mark P
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Sent: 16 October 2013 17:43
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is it all about incentives and disincentives
my previous ED in Australia now has three consultants (staff specialists) working every day of every weekend, my current NHS post with similar pt numbers but fewer consultants has 1 consultant proactively job planned for 3 PAs each day of the weekend working 1:6 .
when I suggested that we go to 2 consultants each day, increase weekend frequency to 1;4, reducing oncall frequency to 1:8..it fell on deaf ears
what r the dissincentives...all on consultant tier find themeslves doing extra DPCare, and coming in on days off important meetings which all too often are poorly planned and poorly executed
I have on four recent occasions needed to travel for the benefit of the trust, I have not been remunerated for travel, parking, time off in lieu, business travel insurance
my study leave budget has been cancelled for the foreseeable future..unless we can clearly justify it towards appraisal revalidation
looking to the wider organization our colleagues in other directorates or divisions are not unified in collaborative working out of hours nor at weekends, they r disengaged from proactively seeing patients and adhere to old school hierarchical approach to pt assessment....why should I break a gut when colleagues in other disciplines do not
dr mark f nicol
emergency medicine consultant
The Flying Scotsman Ltd.
CAA Aviation Medical Examiner 20161
On Tuesday, 15 October 2013, 20:33, Blackham Julian (NORTH BRISTOL NHS TRUST) <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
While I agree that we do not work anything like the number of weekend / night shifts of our nursing colleagues, we work considerable more antisocial hours than our in patient consultant colleagues. Although I accept that our departmental work load is higher at weekend than during the week (we routinely use locums to support our weekend working). Our in patient colleagues work considerably less weekends, and with a lower intensity of working than we do in EM. Until the in patient specialities start to work a similar intensity of weekend working, I think we will make our profession even less appealing if we increase our weekend frequency / intensity, compared to our in patent colleagues. I could offer my patients a better service with 7 day a week access to clinic / investigations, which would also help to manage some of the pressure for beds.
Yours
Jules
On 15 Oct 2013, at 14:19, " Bethel , Jim" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
do not necessarily suffer a poverty of aspiration from working 1:3 weekends or even 1:2 - from 27 years of working in emergency care I can say that most nurses would have felt fortunate to have every other weekend off and 1 weekend off a month was considered usual and most people were happy with that
I do think that to some extent there has to be a shift in the expectations of medical colleagues in this respect - we were providing 24 hour senior nurse (band 7) cover in ED 15 years ago and that was with 7.0 WTE - this was spreading it a bit thin but in the same department at the same time 10.0 WTE consultant medical staff could provide only 16 hour cover 6 days a week and 8 hours on a Sunday
I think we need to meet in the middle somewhere
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