Summer jobs in healthcare?

Bank HCA! Can't sell it enough! Good pay too - near £15/hour on Sundays :teeth:

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No Future

Original post by lekky

Bank HCA! Can't sell it enough! Good pay too - near £15/hour on Sundays :teeth:

Seconded. Professional arse wiping all the way.

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Original post by Ignoramus

Hi,

Does anyone have any good ideas for any work (voluntary is fine, nay, expected!) around the London area?

Ignoramus

Army! 2k for a month.

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Captain Crash

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Try and get a research project. If you get funding (easier than you think) you can get paid and it looks great on your CV.

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Becca-Sarah

Original post by No Future

Seconded. Professional arse wiping all the way.

Psych HCAing :yes:

Professional babysitting, without the poop.

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Wangers

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Original post by digitalis

Army! 2k for a month.

Doing what?

Reply 8

lekky

Original post by Becca-Sarah

Psych HCAing :yes:

Professional babysitting, without the poop.

Can't do it though. Only done a handfull of shifts so v limited experience.. but like, I can't hold people down to stop them running full pelt into the wall head first or hurting themselves/others in other ways as I have had to do on 2 of my shifts, It just leaves me emotionally drained :frown:

^ mostly only the intensive care mental health ward that requests bank staff here.

(edited 13 years ago)

Reply 9

lekky

Original post by digitalis

Army! 2k for a month.

how/what?

i'd quite like 2K!

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Original post by Wangers

Doing what?

Sandhurst.

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Onychophagia

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Original post by Becca-Sarah

Psych HCAing :yes:

Professional babysitting, without the poop.

I did that for 6 months. There was plenty of ****. Often it was thrown straight at me.

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No Future

Original post by Onychophagia

I did that for 6 months. There was plenty of ****. Often it was thrown straight at me.

This is what a colleague said to me. She left psych HCAing and went to elderly care HCAing because in psych HCAing she was chased, attacked, offered poop as a gift, poop thrown at her, poop hidden in the radiators.

Though it probably depends what sort of psych unit (maybe certain types are generally worse than others?) it is and the patients you get.

Whatever dept you're in, depends on the patients you get as to whether there's a lot of poop or not.

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Wangers

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Original post by digitalis

Sandhurst.

The so called vicers and tarts course? I had a look on the website, you have to do a officer selection board thing, either through the OTC - which also has selection, or TA. Dosn't sound like something you can just rustle up tbh. Also, fitness might be an issue :redface:

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Original post by Wangers

The so called vicers and tarts course? I had a look on the website, you have to do a officer selection board thing, either through the OTC - which also has selection, or TA. Dosn't sound like something you can just rustle up tbh. Also, fitness might be an issue :redface:

Do TA, it's very doable as a med student. It's what I'm doing.

Four days, commissioning board over another two days, then four weeks training. Get paid for all of it!

Fitness isn't that arduous, you have to do 1.5m in 14 minutes when you join which is a pisstake really and be able to do it in 10 and a half minutes by the board. 44 pressups and 50 situps in two minutes.

Reply 15

No Future

Original post by digitalis

Do TA, it's very doable as a med student. It's what I'm doing.

Four days, commissioning board over another two days, then four weeks training. Get paid for all of it!

Fitness isn't that arduous, you have to do 1.5m in 14 minutes when you join which is a pisstake really and be able to do it in 10 and a half minutes by the board. 44 pressups and 50 situps in two minutes.

Ooh what is all this? Can you just do it as a one off or are you signing up for something?

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Original post by No Future

Ooh what is all this? Can you just do it as a one off or are you signing up for something?

No, it's not a one off...it's like a 12 year contract that you can quit at any time without penalty. The TA is the reserve Army (49.5% of the Army Medical Services are from the TA)

You can join as a soldier at any time but can only be commissioned as a 2Lt in your 4th year. It's good fun, the training commitments are quite minimal really and they are a really nice, understanding bunch of people. Pay for all your transport and taxis there and back!

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Becca-Sarah

Original post by digitalis

Do TA, it's very doable as a med student. It's what I'm doing.

Four days, commissioning board over another two days, then four weeks training. Get paid for all of it!

Fitness isn't that arduous, you have to do 1.5m in 14 minutes when you join which is a pisstake really and be able to do it in 10 and a half minutes by the board. 44 pressups and 50 situps in two minutes.

Please tell me there's an easier set of requirements for girls? :puppyeyes:

I could possibly manage 1 pressup in two minutes...

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Original post by Becca-Sarah

Please tell me there's an easier set of requirements for girls? :puppyeyes:

I could possibly manage 1 pressup in two minutes...

Yeah it's more time on the run (equiv to level 8.1 on a bleep test), 21 pressups in two mins and 50 situps in two mins.

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Becca-Sarah