Edit: from my non-NHS previous job, I don’t ask much about the patient details except their name date of birth and if they can provide me a bit of info but not necessarily because I’m not the clinician as long as the GP’s available I can book patients in.
I just accepted a receptionist post and let’s say it’s totally a different culture from being an NHS receptionist.
I’m not here to blame the patients nor the receptionists. The receptionist and patients are lovely people but once they talk to each other – they clashed. No wonder receptionist are that way because most patients too and I have been extremely nice but I don’t think I can managed the bickering on the other end. I don’t think it’s my nature of well-being and trying to unlearn things being a GP receptionist before but not NHS nor UK.
I’m not sure if I can handle that work.
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Depends on your type of contract (bank staff, part time, perm) or what your notice period you have in the first few months
Of course you can resign. No one can force you to work your notice period, and you might want to do what you can to keep things sweet if you ever need to return to the NHS in another role; but no one can compel you to work.
You just won’t get paid, you won’t get a very helpful reference (worked for three days…), and you may not be able to claim unemployment benefits due to being voluntarily unemployed.
Yes, you can.
However, it will affect any benefits you may be able to claim.
If the job is significantly different to what was advertised you may be able to argue the point over that.
Either way, you are still within your probationary period and no contract will be worth pursuing by your employer. They may however choose never to employ you again.
Put yourself first. If you really don’t like the job it will hurt you in the long run to try to stay in it.
You can but you can ask for the rest of the time as annual leave as that’s your entitlement. You’re entitled to your notice period being annual leave. Someone left and had 3 weeks of annual leave as that’s what was left in their annual leave hours.
You can resign from any job for little reason immediately, but bear in mind it won’t look good for future employment.
I did this. It was more like 1.5 weeks. I effectively jumped before I was pushed, and ask to leave early – really because I wanted to spend some time off before starting my new job. They let me go, possibly out of guilt.