Work Permit - Will it be a problem?

[Limes]

I'm a newly qualified hospital pharmacist and would love to earn a bit more cash on the side doing some locums. I'm also a work permit holder. Just wondering if it would be a problem to locum for other companies. Would appreciate any advice regarding this matter. Thanks!

[Fleegle]

I'm a newly qualified hospital pharmacist and would love to earn a bit more cash on the side doing some locums. I'm also a work permit holder. Just wondering if it would be a problem to locum for other companies. Would appreciate any advice regarding this matter. Thanks!

Can't see any immediate problem..as long as you are rpsgb registered as a pharmacist, you can work in whichever field you choose. Just one thing..your reference to "a bit more cash on the side"..unfortunately, locum earnings are also taxable by law...tread carefully.

[johnep]

I did locums for 20 years while in industry. I kept them in separate account.

If only do a few then should declare on tax form. Best to do it properly as can the claim all the usual expenses, mileage etc. I never made a profit for about 15 years and the 'loss' was just deducted from PAYE. Learnt this from a chap at work who wanted a large house and bought a chicken farm. He never ran it as a proper business but was able to deduct 'losses' from his PAYE.

'Gentleman farmers' just do it on a larger scale.

Once stayed at a mansion B&B in the New Forest which was owned by an ICI rep. Again any 'losses' were deductable.

Would pay you to have a consultation with an acct.
johnep

[paul2008]

I'm a newly qualified hospital pharmacist and would love to earn a bit more cash on the side doing some locums. I'm also a work permit holder. Just wondering if it would be a problem to locum for other companies. Would appreciate any advice regarding this matter. Thanks!

If I were you I would check the terms of your work permit. in some countries they tie you to one employer. have a look on the http://www.ukvisas.gov.uk

you may find an answer there.


Best of luck,

Paul

[sakura]

According to the following website, work permit holders can take additional work, provided that you comply with the requirements mentioned in the website:

UK Border Agency | Supplementary employment

Hope this helps

[Limes]

Thanks everyone for all their help. I'm definitely going to have to read up on all the conditions of employment and work permits before I do anything else!

[Rafael]

David could you please move my recent posts to this thread. i was not aware of such a thread.
cheers

[johnep]

Not a place for this, but, Raoul did you by any chance fly out or back on the A380?
johnep

[Rafael]

No john
i did fly with Emirates EK 040 to dubai, then EK 346 from there to Malay.
and the same for my return flight, tho different plane numbers.

Emirates airline use Boeing 777-300 for that route.


i would say that was the best flight i ever had, way better than the British airways flights. you get your own screen, 500 films, 1000s of songs, different radios, you even can access the internet if you are willing to pay for that, you can play games with people sitting on different seats, you can ring any seat.....etc
the food was so yummy, 3 meals per flight (10 hours from Malay to dubai, and 8 hours flight from dubai to Birmingham).
xx

[johnep]

Sounds good. makes such a difference when a few comforts on board.

I did a similar flight in 1970 from Hong Kong to Tehran and then onto Heathrow.
Plane was a VC10. Fast, quiet and leather seats.

However. most of my flights on 747 in the top cabin. Must say slept most of the way in an alcoholic haze. Good days. On night flights I would pretend time was UK and perhaps skip evening meal. I would get changed into PJs and take up the arm rests of three seats (I usually flew off season). With a stroke of luck would wake up about an hour out of heathrow and able to have good wash, complete change of clothes and breakfast. To be met at terminal by chauffered car and hear all the company gossip.

Much better to be on a jumbo en route to the tropics than at risk of making an error in a pharmacy.

If you have any languages, get into export or perhaps an expat in country of your choice. It is a good life.

johnep