ooh retainer pay

Re: ooh retainer pay

Erica Huggins — Thu, 27 May 2010 23:49:21 GMT

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We do a 1:4 rota, and are on call. Retainer for weekday is £30 per night, and £70 per weekend, if we get called out then we have a set call out fee, regardless of whether we are there 5 minutes or 5 hours. We get paid for every inpatient check aswell. Works well for our practice!

Definately think you should pursue the retainer fee, you are being relied upon to be available, on the day/nights you are on call, meaning you are very limited on what you can do, and where you can go. You have a very good argument to put forward! Good luck

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Thats a reasonable retainer fee.

We do not have OOH as such just a Duty shift which is basically an inpatient check. We get £10 regardless of if there are any inpatients just for the fact we might have to stay late and 'normal time' for when we do check them. This is the same fee for the weekends. Although at the lower end of the scale, the nice thing is if you have no inpatients, you know you will not have to go in or get called so can do anything! yah. only know for sure at 7pm that night though when vets now take over!

Re: ooh retainer pay

sarahpearce81 — Thu, 27 May 2010 21:50:44 GMT

Re: ooh retainer pay

StephSVN — Thu, 27 May 2010 21:32:06 GMT

We get £15 for a weeknight, £40 for a weekend which is Saturday from 4pm til Monday 8:30am (In Yorkshire if that is relevant) plus time+half or double time for any time we are in the practice, no phones and only inpatients if vet needs help with something. This has recently changed, used to be £30 for the weekend and no nurse on call during the week, managed to negotiate an increase when they introduced the weeknight nurse on call.

Re: ooh retainer pay

Emma Purnell — Thu, 27 May 2010 21:25:52 GMT

We get a fee if we are called out but nothing for simply being on call. I don't think any of us are happy about it but the bosses will not shift on it. It would cost them too much.

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Kim Buckley — Thu, 27 May 2010 20:45:12 GMT

I think it's so bad that people don't get paid a retainer. Why should you not get paid for putting your life on hold just in case you get a call? Really annoys me.

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Polly P — Thu, 27 May 2010 20:41:22 GMT

We don't get a retainer or anything in my company and if you are called out you only get the hourly rate or equivalent time off in lieu (but if called out in the night you get the night rate which is higher.)

I work for a big company- the plus side of this is that each nurse only has to be on call for a total of two weeks a year in two one week blocks- The minus side is you can be 'called in' to cover staff sickness or busy times etc. as well as for reasons of emergency when it is your on call week.

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FINNIGAN — Thu, 27 May 2010 15:58:47 GMT

we get £10 retainer for a weekday and £20 for a weekend day and bank holiday, so if im on call on a weekend, which consists of the fri,sat and sund, then i can get £50 for sitting at home, if i get called out then i get an hourly rate for time at surgery, this has only just come about as we were literally doing a w, end for no pay and no hourly rate if called out.we asked around to see what other practises were getting and in our area , west sussex this seemed to be the norm!!!

Re: ooh retainer pay

Kay Eminson — Thu, 27 May 2010 14:22:52 GMT

We do not get one, but we do not have to do in patient checks so it is just sitting around wondering if the phone will ring, which is never does!

This is the same for weekdays/ weekends and bank holidays!

Re: ooh retainer pay

SmegSlayer — Thu, 27 May 2010 07:41:27 GMT

we get one but i can't remember how much it is, then have the nursing inpatients fee or ooh nurse call out fee