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While in hospital jobs you will be paid according to the StR pay scale. A trainee joining the Training Programme after completion of foundation training will join the pay scale at the minimum point. As part of the recruitment process, you will be asked to provide a salary information form completed by your current employer. Due to the nature of your training and the fact that you will rotate through different specialities you may have up to three different employers in your ST1 and ST2 years. When you are in a GP practice, you will be employed by the surgery and hence hold a contract with them.
You will be given a contract of employment to sign for each hospital post on your training programme and you will be bound by the terms and conditions of each contract of employment. Progression through each stage of the training programme is subject to satisfactory performance review by both the Programme and the employing hospital trust.
Any queries relating to salary or terms and conditions of service whilst undertaking hospital posts should be taken up in the first instance with the appropriate medical staffing department.
During most clinical specialties you will be paid a banding for hours you spend beyond the basic 40 hours/week. In GP settings, your basic salary will be topped up by the so-called -GP Registrar supplement---- that currently gives you a 45% top-up to your basic pay. Banding in hospital posts as well as the GP Registrar supplement are subject to regular review by the Doctors and Dentist Review Body (DDRB). In the light of the financial pressures the NHS find itself under and with the full implementation of the European Working Time Directives in August 2009 it is likely that banding and supplement continue to decrease. Every time you change employers and are issued with a new contract, the banding or supplement payable at the time of issuing the new contract will apply. As you are only pay protected for the duration of a contract, you may therefore experience a decrease of your overall income throughout the training.