How low can you go?

[El-loco]

What do you guys think about the advert in situations wanted in the P.J. 12th March 2011, p318?

An experienced community locum is looking for work at £12 per hour (this is not a typo - people I know have checked this out).

Looks like locums and community employed pharmacists are going to have to take a big cut in salery if this catches on.

Anyone care to undercut this?

[Pharmanaut]

What do you guys think about the advert in situations wanted in the P.J. 12th March 2011, p318?

An experienced community locum is looking for work at £12 per hour (this is not a typo - people I know have checked this out).

Looks like locums and community employed pharmacists are going to have to take a big cut in salery if this catches on.

Anyone care to undercut this?

Amazing.

[radiohead]

How shall I put this

" you pay peanuts, you get monkeys"

[roper]

I have 2 children to pay Childcare for. I guess I am better extending my maternity leave at those rates!

[Web Ferret]

Must be an average pharmacist or in an area with too many pharmacists/not enough branches.

[Pharmanaut]

Must be an average pharmacist or in an area with too many pharmacists/not enough branches.

As I always say - vocational pharmacists get nowhere in pharmacy these days.

[SolomonQ]

now if this person is looking to undercut, they would ask for maybe £17-19 but £12 (halving), there must be a back story to this. If you were a locum recruiter for a multiple/independent would you contact this person?

[Fleegle]

I have always had the feeling it could come down to this. Locum pharmacists are self-employed, If there is little or no work available, they must do what any other self-employed contractor in any discipline would do...cut their rates. £12 per hour is a whole lot better than nothing at all, and given the current financial climate, I am not one bit surprised. The UK has been swamped with EU pharmacists recently, not only from eastern Europe, but notably from Ireland.
Pharmacy in Ireland is in turmoil. Pre-reg pharmacists are working for no pay just to gain their society membership. There are no pre-reg positions available in hospitals anywhere, because the Health Service Executive (NHS 'equivalent') have introduced a no-recruitment policy in order to save money. Most newly-qualified pharmacists from Ireland don't have a snowball's chance in hell of securing employment here, so many have gone to the UK to seek work.

They often have huge bank loans to pay off, so I am inclined to believe UK locum rates will go into free-fall...some of these guys would work for a sandwich in order to get their foot in the door. Believe me..I have an ever-increasing pile of newly-qualified CVs, currently a foot thick.

Crazy I know, but true, and these guys are NOT monkeys.....

Fleegle.

[Rafael]

i have only done around 25 days of locuming on the top of my full time job over the last 5 months. i turned down work on a lot of occasions, the least i accepted was 23quid/hour, the highest was 32 quid/hour + 2 hours for travelling time as an emergency. i could work 6 days a week and find locum work within maximum 45 mins drive if i wanted. obviously it differs from an area to another and i am in a position to pick and choose as i am not a full time locum.
just thought i tell you something encouraging, its not bad everywhere and plenty of work is available in some places. be positive

[culchie82]

I've heard of reports of one newly qualified in NI working for free (essentially working as an extra dispenser) in the hope that the experience will help secure a full time, when one does come up. Strange logic, but shows you how bad things are!