gizmo#12 Posted June 6, 2015 Share Posted June 6, 2015 I am negotiating a 9-month contract in a school based clinic. They are not offering much PTO time as I have school holidays, vacations, and the summer off. Offered 7 days and a 13 days "reserve bank" for emergencies. This includes personal, holiday, sick, professional, vacation. I cannot carry over any time to the next year. Their rationale is all the time off I have and that they don't want me to take time off during the school year. My biggest concern is no sick time if I or a family member became ill and paid time off for CME. Anyone have any thoughts? I am the first provider being offered this. BTW I have 34 years of experience. First time this old timer has negotiated a contract. It is a new frontier out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taotaox1 Posted June 6, 2015 Share Posted June 6, 2015 I am negotiating a 9-month contract in a school based clinic. They are not offering much PTO time as I have school holidays, vacations, and the summer off. Offered 7 days and a 13 days "reserve bank" for emergencies. This includes personal, holiday, sick, professional, vacation. I cannot carry over any time to the next year. Their rationale is all the time off I have and that they don't want me to take time off during the school year. My biggest concern is no sick time if I or a family member became ill and paid time off for CME. Anyone have any thoughts? I am the first provider being offered this. BTW I have 34 years of experience. First time this old timer has negotiated a contract. It is a new frontier out there.Are you being paid like you are working 12 months? If so that sounds pretty nice of it works with your schedule. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nichole Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 I work in a SBHC, but I also work in their main medical clinic. I get a normal amount of PTO/Holidays. It seems like 7 + 13 emergency days are okay to me. But I'm not really sure what they mean by that reserve bank or when you could use it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator ventana Posted July 13, 2015 Moderator Share Posted July 13, 2015 never agree to a crappy offer, especially when they are new to the game of hiring a provider. It will also pigeon hole you into one very small box if you consent to a crappy offer I would say bare min is 10 days PTO and 3 days CME and all the holidays. I looked at a few of these, but the problem I had was the pay - they were paying awful rates for a 9 month position, and their arguement was I had all this "time off" that I could fill in with different work. Well that might work for a Janitor or carpenter, but as a medical professional if you are going to hire me as a primary provider I have to be able to make a living off what you pay me. Great I have 2 months off every summer, but that still doesn't justify an offer of 65k annual.... I would have to work my ars off all summer to get to a reasonable annual salary. Now when my son looks at colleges, well then I might try to get hired by the local State Univerisity....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GetMeOuttaThisMess Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 Similar to what I have with a local district. Work summers (4 day week during summer). Salary similar to VA pay. Just had a mandatory district shutdown for a week so wife and I went to Hawaii. Didn't count against PTO. My thought is that I take a traditional vacation during summer and now have extended breaks over holidays. Works for me. I don't need to go anywhere for CME since I can do it all online (cheap date). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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