Scottish Nursing Guild Employee Reviews

Working for 3/4 years . Felt pressure to preform always , felt preference was given to other workers for shifts . Was no supported during issues when they arose . Overall I worked full time for many years and left feeling lonely and very unsupported

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Insights into Scottish Nursing Guild

Based on 10 survey responses

What people like

Feeling of personal appreciation
Time and location flexibility
Fair pay for job

Negative and wouldn’t advise anyone to work with them. Support is minimal and it’s more a business than caring about staff

Staff nurse (Current Employee) - Edinburgh - 20 July 2023

What is the best part of working at the company?pay rates are fantastic for a registered nurse What is the most stressful part about working at the company?Lack of training. Your only as good as the last shift you worked What is the work environment and culture like at the company?they push if you have to come out of a shift and make you feel very guilty What is a typical day like for you at the company?There is very little work now

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Official response from Scottish Nursing Guild

25 July 2023

Hi, thank you for leaving a review. We'd like to speak to you in more detail about your comments and address those with the team. Could you please contact us with more information at marketing@nursingguild.com? Thanks, Sarah @ SNG.

Great flexibility & pay

Agency Nurse (Current Employee) - Scotland - 4 May 2023

Excellent pay rates with the flexibility of choosing work around family life. However, not guaranteed shifts therefore not reliable for full time work. Call centre team are always very helpful & supportive. Would highly recommend!

Pros

Great pay rates

Cons

Not guaranteed shifts

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Very professional and excellent pay

Staff Nurse (Current Employee) - Scotland - 19 July 2022

Really enjoyed my experience so far. Call centre staff are informative and friendly. Online App is available to view shifts. Payed on time and multiple times per week.

Pros

Excellent hourly rates of pay

Cons

Shifts sometimes just available the day before

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Well paid when work available

Agency RMN (Current Employee) - Scotland - 30 May 2022

Lots of hospital work for RGNs who have ward based experience. Placements based on previous last two years of clinical work which can limit settings you are able work in. Although I,m an experienced RMN, only able to take Care Home placements or some Community shifts as that’s where I had worked recently. These are very limited on the Guild.Nurses who fit the criteria for the majority of work offered which is with General Hospitals, can make a lot of money. Currently I am looking to join other agencies whose pay rates are less but are able to offer a wider variety of work.

Pros

Probably has the highest pay rates of any Nursing Agency

Cons

Long, confusing recruitment process. Little work for RMN, s unless they have worked on mental health wards recently.

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Fantastic employer

HCA/Support Worker (Current Employee) - Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh - 7 May 2022

Absolutely great company to work for with fantastic supportive management. Great rates of pay and travel allowance included. So glad I left my post and decided to work full time with the guild.

Pros

Wages, management, call centre staff, shift app

Cons

None!

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Great company

worker (Current Employee) - Belfast - 31 March 2021

Great company to work for. They look after all staff/workers and lots of great promotions to reward staff.

Pros

pay rates

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Not enough shifts for HCAs

Health Care Assistant (Current Employee) - Scotland - 10 September 2020

So after you jump over all of their hurdles. And you finally receive your pin and paid for your uniform, you find there are zero shifts for HCAs. This was over a week!!. And when you do get a job FINALLY coming up for a HCA at a hospital, and you check client notes to check see if your skills match. You phone up and they tell you you can't do it because you have to have additional psych restraint training and be tested for covid every week. This Information was never provoded before starting the job, and them making you think that there are a lot of shifts for HCAs.Staff are nice and supportive on the phones. However, i am disappointed about the information giving on shifts for HCAs.

Pros

Great pay. Staff nice.

Cons

Lack of shifts for HCAs, even if ypu are willing to travel.

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Amazing!

Staff Nurse (Current Employee) - Edinburgh - 4 March 2020

Amazing organisation to work for. You are valued and pay rate reflects this. They are massively supportive and I wouldn’t work anywhere else! You won’t get better than SNG!

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Great company

HCA/Support Worker (Current Employee) - Scotland - 10 November 2019

What you get out of the Guild is directly related to the amount of effort you put in E.g. 100%= great pay Great training and holiday pay is pro rata with the hours you do

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I love working for the SNG. Fantastic company and fantastic team.

Staff Nurse (Current Employee) - Scotland - 18 August 2019

I love being part of the SNG, its the most trusted agency within central scoltand. Ive learned lots of skills within this role as constantly undergoing additional training. The hardest part of the job is not getting shifts, if the departments dont have people off sick, you dont get work... The best part is suiting myself when i work.:)

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Horrid company.

Nursing Placement Coordinator (Former Employee) - Scotland - 23 October 2018

Awful company to work for. Management were abusive, back handed and degrading. The environment and team dynamic was despicable with senior team members acting unprofessionally, being nasty and bullying each other. I have never been so shocked as to find a group of people who are meant to be in the caring profession behaving as they did. I would never advise anyone to work for this company or for thornbury (their sister company down south) as I have heard very similar things.

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Great flexibility

Registered Nurse (Current Employee) - Scotland and Northern Ireland - 8 July 2018

Working with the Scottish Nursing Guild has enabled me to progress my Nursing career through further post graduate education which wouldn't have been possible without the flexibility.

Pros

Flexibility

Cons

No consistent work collegues

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Registered Nurse (Current Employee) - Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh - 2 February 2018

Great company to work for. Extremely helpful/knowledgable staff. Being paid what we deserve. Varied placements Varied work experience. Hours variable. No pressure to take shifts. Only work when you want to.

Pros

Varied experience

Cons

Travel requirement

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great pay

Registered Nurse (Current Employee) - Scotland - 18 January 2018

great pay but be prepared for last minute shifts be prepared to travel for work supportive always on the end of phone for advice friendly staff great for keeping you upto date with training supportive for revalidation

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Excellent Rate Pay

Health Care Assistant (Former Employee) - Allover Scotland - 16 October 2017

Zero contract hours Shifts flexible Fuel costs reimbursable No Permanent allocation of work place Shift availability ready on App Free training and other courses related Occasionally free accommodation provided Weekly pay Friendly Staff and Managment

Pros

Above minimum pay rate

Cons

Uniform is not free

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Lack of consistency

Nursing Assistant (Former Employee) - United Kingdom - 1 July 2017

There are some amazing people in the team however it is balanced out with some people with equally as bad practices. The agency does not seem to consider where they are sending some people and the level of incompetency in some of them.

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Staff Nurse RMN (Current Employee) - Edinburgh - 10 March 2017

lack of shifts can be a worry over next shift at times, but good place to be call centre staff very helpful. Would prefer to work full time but agency work is affected by budgets and politicians.

Pros

great rates

Cons

lack of shifts at times

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Good to work for.

Nursery Assistant (Former Employee) - Edinburgh, Midlothian - 28 December 2016

Friendly & supportive. Well paid, although staff had to be prepared to travel for work at short notice. However, the company paid petrol money. They also required staff with a minimum of 6 months experience.

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