More than 1,500 hospital workers in East Yorkshire and North East Lincolnshire are celebrating after being promoted and given four years’ back pay as part of a deal to ensure they’re paid properly for the work they do.
The healthcare assistants had been carrying out tasks – such as taking blood, performing electrocardiogram tests and inserting cannulas – that should have been paid at a higher rate.
NHS Humber Health Partnership – which oversees Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust – has accepted the staff were performing extra duties and has agreed to move them up a grade, as well as provide back pay from April 2021 to properly compensate them for their work.
The deal also includes workers who previously worked at the hospitals and follows the regrading of maternity support workers employed by Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust earlier this year.
The outcome is another success its Pay Fair for Patient Care campaign, which has won more than £200m for over 40,000 healthcare workers since 2021.
UNISON Hull and East Riding health branch secretary Rachel Waters said: “It’s great news that so many staff will receive a pay rise in time for Christmas.
“It’s an excellent deal which will ensure that hundreds of frontline NHS workers are finally paid properly for the work they do.”
UNISON Grimsby, Goole and Scunthorpe health joint branch secretary Andrea Smith said: “Staff have been carrying out duties above their pay grade to make sure patients get the best possible care for years.
“It’s only right that they are regraded and fairly compensated for the work they’ve done previously.”
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– NHS Humber Health Partnership is an umbrella group made up of Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust. The two trusts have five main hospital sites: Castle Hill Hospital in Hull, Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital in Grimsby, Goole and District Hospital, Hull Royal Infirmary, and Scunthorpe General Hospital.
