Recently qualified QVN wages?

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Busy bee — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 19:08:23 GMT

Thanks everyone - really helpful

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Tracey Louise — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 13:32:26 GMT

[quote user="suzanne reeve"]

i qualifed in 2009 and am only on £6.35. which after reading on here is poor. i didnt do my training were i am now but know that if i had i would be on more. so when nurse qualify after me no i know they are on more then me , which i think is wrong.

i've thought of bringing it up with my boss but its been done before by others who just say they were told you can either stay on it or go find another job.

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I was on similar as a newly qualified and currently on less than most of the above wages for head nurse.

Depends what type of practice (eg 1st opinion, referreral), experience, area etc.

But imo £8 or £9 an hour is alot for 1st opinion newly qualified, sounds more like veterinary hospital / referral

Obviously london area pay more also

Re: Recently qualified QVN wages?

Maisy — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 12:16:18 GMT

[quote user="suzanne reeve"]

i've thought of bringing it up with my boss but its been done before by others who just say they were told you can either stay on it or go find another job.

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Sorry Suzanne, but that is terrible! How employers can consider this to be a salary to live on I don't know. It may be worth speaking to your boss, and if they do retaliate that you can find another job, well....might not be a bad thing, QVNs are in demand. From my experience I've found that its VNs who qualified at their practice may be on a lower salary than someone who didn't train there-no idea why. Possibly the practice is 'making up' initially the costs from training, or the incoming VN can negotiate a salary that they have previously been on? Either way there are plenty of practices around who are more realistic with salaries.

I know vet nursing is never going to be a particularly well paid job, especially in general practice but we shouldn't have to put up with this sort of so called wage.

Re: Recently qualified QVN wages?

suzie17 — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 12:04:22 GMT

i've thought of bringing it up with my boss but its been done before by others who just say they were told you can either stay on it or go find another job.

Re: Recently qualified QVN wages?

salliee5 — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 08:46:37 GMT

I qualified in London about 7 years ago and got a pay rise up to £18,000. I had however also at the same point taken on a lot of head nurse duties (we were a very small practice! - and the head nurse left) and I was effectively running the place. I did have to state my case before they gave it to me, but they did.

However, 7 years on I am not not sure. I do find that as a QVN in London you can often ask what you want, and usually you will get it if you can back up with experience. I certainly would not be ashamed as a new QVN to go in and ask for £19000 or even £20,000 depending on how confident you are in your work, or your level of experience. If you don't ask you don't get!

Re: Recently qualified QVN wages?

Gillian Mostyn — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 22:16:00 GMT

[quote user="niknoks"]Gillian i think £7.50 would be a pretty ok wage for a newly qualified VN, however £8.50 seems low to me as a qualified nurse with several years experience[/quote]

Absolutely agreed. I pay my experienced staff more.

Re: Recently qualified QVN wages?

Nikki Graef — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 17:29:09 GMT

Wow Maisy thats amazing!!

Gillian i think £7.50 would be a pretty ok wage for a newly qualified VN, however £8.50 seems low to me as a qualified nurse with several years experience, at the moment i earn £9 an hour which i think is just ok, i have 11 years experience. Previously i was earning £9.50 but had to take a pay cut as we had to move due to my other halfs job, i think id struggle to be able to live on £8.50 unless i was working a serious amount of hours which then would be pretty tiring and not much fun

Re: Recently qualified QVN wages?

Maisy — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 17:08:59 GMT

As a newly qualified VN I was on around £10 per hour/£18000 p.a for 37 hours a week, with weekends/nights paid as overtime. This was in the Berkshire/Surrey area.

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Kim Buckley — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 17:02:53 GMT

I was on £15,500 as a newly qualified. Think it worked out at just over £8 an hour.

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FINNIGAN — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:59:45 GMT

one paper away from qualifying, am on 16.500, 37.5 hrs week, at practise 6yrs, i think im very lucky!!

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Gillian Mostyn — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:51:14 GMT

That's odd, considering the quite considerable anger displayed to me last year when I advertised a job at a rate of between £7.50 - £8.50 an hour. I was told in no uncertain terms by some people on this website that my pay was very poor.....!!!!

Re: Recently qualified QVN wages?

Nikki Graef — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:43:59 GMT

I dont think many newly qualifieds get £8 an hour?!! I think the average would be around £14,000 which would vary on hourly rate depending on how many hours you do per week, you might get up to 16k being in London, but newly qualified salary tends to be pretty low

Re: Recently qualified QVN wages?

SmegSlayer — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:51:47 GMT

when i qualified january 2010 i was on the east kent cost and was on £14,500 but only because I had 8 previous years experience behind me before starting my training at that practice

Re: Recently qualified QVN wages?

Gillian Mostyn — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:44:52 GMT

[quote user="Phrin Vernon"]13.5k for a 37.5hr week[/quote]

Works out at £6.90 per hour - very poor for a QVN who has been working in practice for so long!!

I'd say that somewhere around £8 per hour is about right - possibly a little more in London?

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groovyguin — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 12:55:25 GMT

That is pretty poor I live in Warwickshire I qualified May 2010 I've started on 17.6k for 40 hr wk.

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Phrin Vernon RVN — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:43:48 GMT

I don't mind sharing that as a newly qualified VN in Derbyshire, mixed practice I'm on 13.5k for a 37.5hr week, which I think is pretty poor!