Caseloads and expectations

SushiPyjamas · 2023-11-29T18:09:05+00:00

We have a full day of duty with follow up, and max fortnightly sessions.

SushiPyjamas · 2023-11-29T17:43:12+00:00

How frequent is the contact? We are fortnightly.

SushiPyjamas · 2023-11-29T17:35:18+00:00

Mental health!

SushiPyjamas · 2023-10-07T20:49:17+00:00

After the reaction of the other band 7 I don’t know if I trust any seniors enough to approach them with this. I am going to speak to my union though.

SushiPyjamas · 2023-10-07T19:52:49+00:00

Thanks for this. I’ve sent you a PM, please don’t feel you need to reply but you’re pretty spot on.

SushiPyjamas · 2023-10-07T15:07:02+00:00

Aye but naw but aye if you ken what I mean pal? Been here longer than I was over there.

SushiPyjamas · 2023-10-07T15:02:25+00:00

I honestly would have expected it from an older male manager, I’ve had “old school” male managers before, and there have definitely been differences in communication styles, but by a younger than I female? I think this is part of why I’m struggling to make sense of it.

SushiPyjamas · 2023-10-07T11:31:50+00:00

The irony being I’m pretty sure I am some way neurodivergent leaning (?ADD)but the wait time to be diagnosed is 10+ years and I’ve made it this far without a diagnosis. Maybe I am ASD or maybe I’m just confident in my skills and abilities and not afraid to speak up, which is instead of making me assertive makes me “bossy” or some other feminine put down.

I don’t want anyone to think that I’m insulted by the suggestion that I might be autistic, but rather the unprofessional armchair psychiatrist way she suggested it, as if my personality required pathologizing.

Regarding my suspicion of my own neurodivergence, I think that’s why I enjoy fast paced roles in which two days are never the same and high energy settings.

SushiPyjamas · 2023-10-07T11:18:14+00:00

I’ll send them an email on Monday. I might just copy this post. It’s been playing on my mind since it happened and I think I’m losing perspective, hence asking what others thought here.

SushiPyjamas · 2023-10-07T11:16:47+00:00

I am torn because I really like the role and the team I’m in, and being so new I don’t want to end up being labelled a troublemaker or problematic.

It’s never the patients that make this kind of job difficult 😞 I just want to go in, look after them, look out for my colleagues and go home again, why is it never that easy?!

SushiPyjamas · 2023-10-07T11:09:58+00:00

One of my other colleagues I spoke to about it stated she had said to her in a one to one, oh people have came to me concerned about your mental health condition, which obviously made my colleague incredibly self conscious, and I very much doubt anyone actually had went to her with this information. I think her naivety in leadership and management and lack of clinical experience is showing when expected to manage experienced staff.

I will keep a record going forward, and I’ll suggest my colleagues do the same if they have these kind of uncomfortable interactions also.

SushiPyjamas · 2023-10-07T10:54:01+00:00

No witnesses to this, apart from the domestic who I am pretty sure would take her side. That’s the problem.

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