Anyone negotiated MORE hours with the NHS? Unlikely?

[marleymooo]

Hi everyone, I have just submitted an application for a role within the NHS, its 18.75 hours (currently work 37.5). Its a band up from what I'm on at the moment but I still dont think we could manage on a 0.5 wte salary.

This role was previously fulltime, although Im unsure if they have removed some of the workload (unlikely) for the part-time post. Being public sector, has anyone any experience of negotiating extra hours for a role such as this that only has limited funding. Would this be something you would bring up at interview stage or job offer stage (or is in pointless to even ask)? Confident arent I lol. Just wondering really on the offchance I get an interview.

You could ask at interview or ask beforehand what the chances are of extra hours. I would imagine it will be 18.75 hrs at the moment though. With cutbacks in the NHS a lot of jobs are advertised as fixed term these days.

I think for the foreseeable future it will be 18.75. As pp said, you could ask,no harm in that. In my Trust there is an admin review going on and hours, bands etc are being cut. Not a good time. Unfortunately, I think this will be throughout the NHS.