Who pays to work? Registration fees

[Blueotter22]

Hello,

just posting here for traffic and hoping to gain some insight to other peoples professions really.

Im an allied health care professional and we’ve just been told that the HCPC are looking to increase our annual fees by 20% to keep up with inflation apparently.

For me, a single mum and band 6 NHS professional this means I’ll be paying £33 a month for my HCPC fees and membership to my professional body. £405 a year just to legally do my job. I think this is outrageous and unfair, especially when they haven’t justified exactly what they are spending their 33 million on (that’s how much the HCPC take in fees a year)

I can’t do my job without being a member of the HCPC and having indemnity cover. I either pay or find a job elsewhere outside of healthcare.

I understand it’s important to have the HCPC and a process to report unsafe healthcare workers etc. But we also have to pay for our DBS and rarely get dedicated CPD time to meet our HCPC standards. Yet we can be called upon for audit to show how we have maintained our CPD.

Anyways, it just got me thinking, which other professions pay to work and if you wouldn’t mind sharing - how much do you pay and what do you get for that?

I know nurses and social workers pay too but unsure their fees. Do accountants/ lawyers pay to be registered?

thanks so much in advance

Per year
£270ish professional registration
£370 indemnity. This was £160 but went up when I got additional qualification (for which there was no pay rise in nhs)
£200 professional body
£150 body for specialist area

Other than reclaiming tax, no contribution from employer when working for nhs. I left, get paid far more and new employer covers cost.

No surprise nhs haemorrhage staff when they treat them like this

AHP

Professional body: £22
Union: £14
HCPC on top of this

I thought that Most NHS staff are not actually employed by the NHS and that you have to pay to be registered with them and to undertake the jobs that the NHS ask you.

Like GPS. All GPs are private but pay into some sort of contract with the government, which is reimbursed, in order to provide free healthcare.

Health practitioners need to pay to be covered by a body that protects them and allows them to provide NHS services.

I'm probably wrong .

I’m not surprised that I have to pay registration fees, I knew I would have to when I was training to become an AHP.

What stings is that they can bump up the fee by 20% and unless I want to find a different career then I just have to accept it and pay.

Meanwhile the HCPC are spending money on Christmas parties and their staff are on huge salaries - the top dog earning 190k a year, I wonder if he has to pay registration fees? The council chair attended 6 meetings in a year and was paid a 70k allowance to do so.

Maybe I don’t really understand all the behind the scenes stuff they do to run the HCPC but they should be transparent on what the justification is and perhaps it would sting less.

I’m a single parent with a take home pay of just over 2k a month (which I get is really fortunate for me but it’s only my income at home), £33 is a lot of money to pay to work and I just wonder how this is going to impact the NHS further and staff retention.

Pharmacist here, £257 to register and £120 for insurance.
NHS paid nothing towards it, I'm in community now and my big multiple pays my registration bit not my insurance.

I found my job on the NHS jobs website, I couldn’t apply without HCPC registration. I’m employed directly by them. I could choose to work for another organisation who may pay my fees for me, but I was one of the last cohorts of students to receive the NHS bursary and I wanted to pay back to the NHS for that reason - I also get to work with children who otherwise wouldn’t get a service so I stay with the NHS even though I get daily emails of agencies job paying twice or three times more and with fees covered - which is very very tempting.

I am an accountant, there is an annual registration fee, usually I have been able to claim it as a work expense.

£65 per annum to register with the GTCS. You can’t teach in Scotland without it (so no cover supervisors at all and no teaching assistants taking classes.) And you can only teach the level and the subject/subjects you are registered in.

dentist ARF £680 a year indemnity £388 a month

University business school academic. Various professional bodies - cost ranges from £25 - £250 a year. The university pays for almost all of them.

Either of the dentists remember when we took the GDC to court to stop them increasing our fees? Weirdly paying for both sides of the case. The judge agreed but said they were so badly run they would go under without the increase.

Gone back down a bit since then at least.

Not current but was a QSW, fees were £80 when I left, my most recent employer would reimburse the fees though.

So true and what we all should be writing on the consultation. Joke

@MrsMorton yep it wasn’t that long ago £890 I think it was

Social workers used to pay 90£ a year to HCPC it is now 180£ pa to social work england, nothing in return. We can claim it against tax but that is it

its £90 a year for Social Work England? I've literally just paid it!

www.socialworkengland.org.uk/registration/registration-fees/

the £90 pays for them to uphold the standards of the profession by ensuring public confidence in those registered to practice via fitness to practice hearings.

they also write/maintain the social work standards and do random checks on CPD.

I only pay about £100 a year. But j HAVE ti be in a union apparently.. that’s £24 a month.

Teacher in lreland..about 160 euro to Teaching Council annually.
Union fees separate and while not all teachers are in the union the vast majority are.

Yep - HCPC and then RCSLT membership here.

And you should get tax relief on your subs. We got a couple of hundred back earlier this year for DH teaching subs

I worked in childcare, paid out $500 before id done a days paid (minimum wage) work

@Blueotter22 I thought a lot of NHS boards give salaried clinician staff indemnity cover? Certainly I thought my role did... Bit concerned if that isn't true!

Ours is £30 per year, but its paid for by my employer.

Sorry. Bit late to the party there!

Surveyor, in excess of £500 but I’ve never worked anywhere where it wasn’t paid by the employer!