Imagine you’re in your final year of a nursing degree.
It’s been a long slog – you started in the year that the health service was recovering from Covid, and as it turns out it never really did.
Placements – and your supposed “supernumerary status” – have been especially difficult, particularly in those moments where it became clear that you were anything but.
But you’re on the final stretch now – one more three month placement stretch (with who knows how many more months to wait to get your inadequate expenses back) and you’ll be on the register and in a job.
But then you’re told there’s a problem. Because of some “misunderstanding” over what can and can’t be counted as placement hours, you discover that you’re in fact six weeks of placement short.
The good news is that your job offer is being held. But the bad news is that you have no idea what your rights are over the loss of earnings, extra costs and general uncertainty that you’ve now been plunged into.
