• Question: what made you want to work for the NHS

    Asked by same11yes on 30 Mar 2023. This question was also asked by yays11met.
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      Karen Innes answered on 30 Mar 2023:

      Its a large organisation so lots of opportunity for development and training. They also have a decent pension!

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      Yuen Say Toh answered on 30 Mar 2023:

      affordable care for all and we can still do so much with proactive care so instead of only curing the problem, we can start helping/educate people to improve their life and prevent their deterioration

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      Kate Knowles answered on 31 Mar 2023:

      Because I believe the NHS is the right way to provide healthcare and i wanted to be a nurse

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      Laurence Quirk answered on 31 Mar 2023:

      I thought the job looked good. I wanted a job where I thought I could help people. I’m not clinical so I don’t see patients, but I hope I feel like I am making a difference to staff working in primary care.

      When I say the job advertised I thought I had the right skills and knowledge for the job

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      Sarah Chalmers-Page answered on 3 Apr 2023:

      I wanted a job where I could help people, and it was obvious that my skills were more management and less practical – I was never going to be a good firefighter, for example!

      Also, the NHS gradaute scheme offered a good further qualification at the time, and that helped. The pay is reasonable, the holiday allowances are good, and I have stayed in the NHS for about 20 years now because I enjoy the work and like most of the people I meet.

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      Angela Musson answered on 3 Jul 2023:

      I chose to work for the NHS after a career of 25 years in Food Safety and 10 years in Health and Wellness. I wanted to make a difference with the Business skills I had developed in my previous roles and help put right some of the issues I had seen as a care worker

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