These NHS Job Links Can Raise Your Pay from £22K to £30K + The Night I Met Daddy
Are You Undervaluing Your Clinical Skills?
Too many skilled healthcare workers in the UK—especially Black and immigrant professionals—are earning far less than their experience deserves.
Recently, I worked with a client in Birmingham who had strong clinical competencies: wound care, catheter care, PEG/NG feeding, stoma management—yet her annual salary sat at just £22,000.
This is not just underpayment. It’s systemic undervaluation.
Let’s be clear: those are Band 3-level skills, and several NHS Trusts are currently hiring for similar roles paying up to £30,000.
Here are 2 examples:
🔹 Community Healthcare Assistant – Band 3
Bromley Healthcare | £29,176–£30,225 incl. HCAS
📍Beckenham, Orpington, Biggin Hill | 🕒 37.5 hrs/week
📅 Apply by 01/06/2025 → View job_
🔹 Healthcare Assistant – Band 3
Surrey Downs Health & Care | £29,176–£30,225 incl. HCAS
📍Epsom Hospital & Community Services | 🕒 37.5 hrs/week
📅 Apply by 23/05/2025 → View job
If you have comparable clinical experience, don’t settle for less. Learn how to position yourself professionally—and apply where your value is recognised.
The Night I Met Daddy
A few years ago, during one of the coldest nights I've ever experienced in South East London, while working as a bouncer at a nightclub, the manager asked me to escort an older Black man from the premises. He was highly intoxicated. As I introduced myself and walked him out, he whispered: 'Just call me Daddy.'
He didn’t resist. He simply came with me but settled himself on the pavement just in front of the club. He cradled a nearly empty gin bottle as if it were the last precious thing in his life, as he struggled to steady his hand for a puff from an almost burnt-out cigarette butt he’d picked from the street.
As he did all these, he kept talking and didn’t seem to care if I was listening.
The things he told me that night chilled me to my bones even more than the winter night. The details are a story for another day, but I will give you a short version today.
He had come to the UK with his wife and 2 kids as a chartered accountant hired from overseas for one of the top 4s.
Life was good - holidays with his family in exotic locations, money and gifts for extended family and friends, and hosting throngs almost every weekend in his very large house.
The future was bright, but for a not-too-long time.
However, as the bills rose and the expenses tripled against stagnated income, his wife left, and the children took her side in the divorce - he has not seen them for over 10 years.
Money, he said, is fickle, but it holds everything together. Under a broken system, one after the other, he lost everything, including hope.
Just before he dozed off, he whispered:
“Son, know this: You can borrow from the future to spend on the present. But when the future comes to collect, the world as you know it will gradually crumble around you."
As I struggled to push him into a better laying position and cover him with some old blankets from the storeroom, I struggled to hold back my tears.
Why I Wrote My Book
That night wasn’t just emotional—it was transformational.
It reminded me of a truth too often overlooked:
Without financial knowledge and structure, even the strongest can fall. Many in the Black Community do not have basic knowledge of income, investment, and financial independence.
That’s why I wrote my FREE book to make this topic very simple and basic:
A Practical Guide to Income, Investment, and Financial Liberation for Black Immigrants in the UK.
This isn’t just theory. It’s survival. It’s empowerment. It’s a strategy to break the cycle.
It’s for people like Daddy—and it’s for people like you, who are determined to stop surviving and start building.
💬 Let’s Connect
Gaius Amonye
Founder, StandTall Community
Researcher | Financial Educator | Advocate for Black Wealth
Let’s rewrite our story. One job. One strategy. One life at a time.
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