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By: Interest Rates

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By: Gail

Gail — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 21:23:06 +0000

Hi, sorry for the delay in replying, yes you should probably register with your local comptable (accountant) after you start working in france, they will advice probably the micro type of account, you wwill pay a ppercentage of your income, if it is quite small, in fact you may not have to pay income tax, but will pay your URSSAF, which is the oobligatory to cover all those on maternity leave, the dole etc!, charges for professional tax for your departement and your local town where you work, yes lots of taxes, if you count around 47% of your income for charges/taxes you will not be too disappointed! You will have to pay for a pension too, even though you probably won’t get much at the end, its obligatory in France, unlike Britain where you can chose to opt out. Unfortunately sometimes you pay more than you should the first 3 years as they don’t know at the start you won’t be working all the year, they should adjust this after the 3 years, bienvenue en France!

Hope that helps, best to get the comptable to do all the paperwork, he will organise your SIRET no which will let the tax people know where you are and you will get your Carte Vitalle, which is your card for getting your health care, like the National Insurance in Britain, after that you will probably need a Mutuelle you pay the rest of the costs, it depends of course

By: Debi

Debi — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:16:15 +0000

Hi Gail,
Have read your blog with much interest. I am a principal physio (qualified for 30 years!) running a 5 physio practice in England who has been going through the registration process in France over the last year!
I now have my ‘Attestation’ and have registered with the OrdreMK locally in my departement which is Charente-Maritime. the reason for doing this is that we have a house there and I would like to be able to work in both places – UK and France. I have also taken out french professional liability assurance.
My next step is get my Adeli number and register at the social security. Like you, I want to pay whatever taxes are due – but I am not going to be in France very much at first, so only want to pay taxes appropriate to what I earn. I have done a bit of research into MicroBNC and can see that as professions liberales we are limited to how we can structure things. I was just wondering, if you don’t mind saying which type of business structure you are and whether you have to pay a fixed amount of tax/social security payments or whether it is dependent on earnings.
Thank you in advance.

By: Gail

Gail — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 20:57:04 +0000

Hi, the salary ranges are so different depending on where you work if its a rivate hospital or general, if you are in private practice or not. Best to contact the hospital/cabinet where you would like to work andx discuss your salary.

By: Maria

Maria — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:24:50 +0000

Hi,
Can you give me an idea of the salary ranges for working as a physio in France?
I have 20 years of general orthopedic experience in private and hospital setting. I’m interested in working 20 hours or so a week.
Thanks so much.

By: Gail

Gail — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 10:25:26 +0000

Hi, I mailed you the other week with all the info, hope you got it. Good luck.

By: Katie

Katie — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:39:33 +0000

Hello!
I’m a student physio student in the UK but would like to work in France when I graduate (my family lives there).

Could you give me any tips and information on what I would have to do to register so I would be able to work in France?

Many thanks!

Katie

By: Gail

Gail — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:11:40 +0000

Bonjour Leah,

Le système est un peux différent, tu trouve beaucoup d’info via le Chartered Society of Physiotherapists site, obligé a écrire en anglais! Je crois tu as besoin a faire un dossier pour NHS et faite un stage avec le HPC, Health for Professionals Council, je crois. Après ca se faite (ils vérifier tout tes diplomes), tu peux travail publique dans les hôpitaux et cabinets NHS multi-disciplinary avec les infirmier etc, salarie ou privé (liberale) dans un cabinet privé, non salarie normalement, mais plus que les seances ici!; Normalement ils veux plus que 5 ans travail après diplome avec plusieur formations en addition de ton diplome (on fait acupuncture la aussi).

Alors, peut être mieux tu contact le CSP pour tout l’info courante. Si jamais ce trops, tu peux aussi travail plus facilement comme Sports Massage Therapist, pas dans le système NHS liberale. Bon courage.

Gail

By: Leah

Leah — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 19:50:59 +0000

Bonjour Gail
Je suis désolée de t’écrire ici mais je n’ai pas trouvé sur ton site web comment répondre à ton sujet “About Me” !!
J’ai vu que tu accordais une grande importance à répondre à aider ceux qui t’écrivent et tu as du mérite Je me suis dit que je pourrais à mon tour te poser quelques questions…
Je suis kiné depuis cette année, j’ai été diplomée de l’école de Toulouse. Je suis à la recherche d’information concernant le travail du physiotherapist en Angleterre et je pense que tu dois être au courant !! En fait j’ai mon ami qui est parti travailler à Cancer Research UK à Cambridge et je voudrais aller le rejoindre dès que je peux. J’ai appris que le HPC n’accordait les équivalences qu’au bout de 4-5 ans d’expérience, alors je vais quand même monter mon dossier, on ne sait jamais.
En attendant, j’aimerai en savoir un petit peu plus sur le système anglais de prise en charge. Est ce que c’est la même chose qu’en France ? Est ce qu’il y a des cabinets de kinés comme on en trouve ici? (en lien avec le système de sécurité sociale ou non?)
Comment ça se passe pour les kinés qui travaillent à l’hopital ?
J’ai entendu dire qu’en Angleterre il fallait avoir exercé 2 années à l’hopital avant de pouvoir exercer en libéral, est ce vrai ?
Et au niveau des revenus, est ce que tu sais si ça change beaucoup que ce soit pour l’exercice en libéral ou en hospitalier ?
J’ai cru comprendre que tout était géré par le NHS et que l’exercice libéral non? aaaah je suis perdue !!
Je suis désolée pour toutes ces questions !! Tes réponses me seront d’une grande aide !!
A très vite j’espère,
Cordialement,
Leah

By: Jane

Jane — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:08:20 +0000

Dear Gail,

It seems that you have been very helpful in assisting people with information re: becoming registered to work as a physio in France.

I am a UK physio and am keen to come and work in France for a short period of time (over the winter season) but want to ensure that I am doing it in the correct way.

I have gone through the intial stages of registration (which took ages!) and have my adeli number and certificate. I understand that there is a 2nd stage of registration to go through to become registered with L’ordre des masseurs et kines-do you know if I have to go through this stage to be able to work temporarily in France or if this is only if I want to live and work permanently in France?

I would be very grateful for any information you are able to give me.

Best wishes

Jane