NHS Advertises For ‘Director of Lived Experience’. Salary? £115,000!
The Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is advertising for a ‘Director of Lived Experience’, boasting that it’s the first job of its kind in the health service. MailOnline has more.
With record backlogs, an unprecedented nurses’ strike and typical winter pressures already putting immense strain on the NHS, one might think bosses would be pumping every penny into frontline care.
But instead the cash-strapped health service has posted an advert for a £115,000-a-year ‘Director of Lived Experience’, who is capable of creating “brave spaces”.
Critics argued the six-figure role was a “kick in the teeth” to taxpayers, as millions of patients wait on the elective care backlog.
The ad, placed by the Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, boasts how it is the first job of its kind in the health service.
The NHS has previously referred to experiencing racism or discrimination or being a “white ally” and recognising white privilege as examples of a “lived experience”.
Ads for the role, posted on the NHS’s recruitment website as well as third party websites such as LinkedIn, say the successful candidate will be “interpersonally talented” and a “strategic bridge-builder”.
They must also have a “personal experience of life-altering health condition(s)” and, having used health services, then “experienced significant power imbalances”.
A supplementary document for applicants says tackling power imbalances within the Trust will be one of the main roles for the successful candidate.
“The Director will broker psychologically safe environments that allow people to co-produce and become equal partners in their care,” it reads.
Another part of the document says the director will also need to make “brave spaces” for patients and families to be able to give feedback on the organisation.
Other priorities include seeking out “seldom heard” disadvantaged groups “who may experience health inequalities”.
Joe Ventre, digital campaign manager of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said trusts could ill-afford to squander cash on “non-jobs” at time the NHS was under such financial strain.
“Well-paid non-jobs like this are a kick in the teeth for hard-pressed taxpayers,” he said.
“At a time when nurses are striking over pay and patients wait on backlogs, there can be no excuse for trusts squandering cash.
“The health service must put an end to these right-on roles and focus resources on frontline care.”
Over seven million people in England, about one in eight people, are now on the NHS waiting list for elective care, with many living in significant pain as they wait for procedures like knee and hip replacements.
Queues are expected to get even worse in response to NHS strikes, which began yesterday with up to 100,000 nurses taking to picket lines.
A successful candidate for the director of lived experience can expect a salary between £110,000 and £115,000 per year.
This amounts to around four times as much as a newly qualified NHS nurse, who earns about £27,000.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: According to the Telegraph, the NHS is hiring an “army” of Lived Experience tsars, having identified at least 20 such job titles across seven NHS trusts, being paid a total of at least £600,000. More here.
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Patients are already living with the experience of the worst health service in western Europe.
Job for Director Idiot is to create ‘safe spaces’ for the oppressed ie non-white or ‘disadvantaged’ ie. non-white; and even ‘brave spaces’ for patients so they can provide ‘feedback’ to the Communist Death Care System. The assumption which is wrong, is that you have access to start with which you don’t, or that non-whites or ‘disadvantaged’ are treatly differently – they aren’t.
Beggars belief how useless the NHS is.
At this point it’s basically smoke signals communicating between the nomenklatura the fact they’re now running things, and sending an ‘up yours’ to anybody who doesn’t like it.
They are either taking the p*ss out of taxpayers, or they are advertising these jobs as a cover for some well-connected people without any other qualifications, who have already been promised them.
Or, in essence, both.
It is an absolute given that the job has already been awarded to some yes- man pipsqueak. It’s quite probable that a selection and interview process will be walked through just to give a sheen of due process and of course it permits even greater waste of taxpayers money.
I think that highly unlikely. It is far, far more likely to be some ‘yes-woman‘.
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Women’s Budget Group, 2018
Health and gender
“77% of the NHS workforce are female, accounting for 43% of doctors and 88.6% of registered nurses”
https://wbg.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/health-pre-budget-nov-2017-final.pdf.
Everything about this screams ‘Soviet Union’, especially the use of incomprehensible language. In the old days, we’d have all jumped on ships and set sail to find and build a new home.
They’re so woke, they haven’t slept in days!
Shouldn’t this be hat tipped huxleypiggles Toby?
🤣 At least we know they check out the comments sections, despite never actually getting involved. I’ve seen this happen a few times. Take it as a compliment.😉 I’ve seen the odd thing popping up on Mike Yeadons Telegram channel too that’d been posted here first. He used to visit and comment from time to time didn’t he? Now I get the feeling he just visits.
Thanks Mogs.
I’ve had this happen a few times. Means that the links posted get a wider readership. I agree with Mogs, it’s a compliment, when it’s happened for links I’ve posted, I get a a warm fuzzy glow. Sad I know, but hey!
Thanks BB.
The Stonewall “Diversity Index” is the gamification of virtue signalling. The fee is so small, in order to make it a ‘no brainer’ for accountants. But it’s a parasite seeking entry. It achieves nothing and harms the host.
Lived experience? Haven’t we all lived experience? I never got paid 115k for living!
Chunts !!!!..,,
As posted yesterday.
Thanks Toby!
A ‘Director’ suggest that there isn’t one of them, but a team of people beneath them, doing….I have no idea. It isn’t treating patients.
What, I wonder, does their measure deliverables look like. Surely some Key Performance Indicators against which to judge their success or lack of it..? I’m struggling to think what they might be.
I was going to make the very same point. It starts with a single role, then it becomes three people, those three then need a manager, three become six and they need two managers and two team leads, then they need a director…
Reading this bs makes my heart bleed!
The country I love and respect is being systematically dismantled and replace with something unrecognisable
RIP country of my childhood 😢
Seconded.
It means yet another diktat of woke crap for the frontline staff to attend to instead of attending to the clinical work which they want to spend their time on.
Will only result in fewer patient contacts & increased lists, which do prey on the minds of clinical staff. These long waiting lists result in more intractible health problems, more time spent on dealing with patient complaints about long waits & increased stress levels amongst the staff as well as a diluted service for when the patients do get seen. It’s a toxic combination. I’ve spent too many years of my NHS service fire fighting huge caseloads, stupid waiting times, irate (rightly so) patients & families & only being able to provide a minimum service. Highly stressful, guilt inducing & not good enough.
There are NHS staff who care deeply about the clinical care which they provide & put the patients first, sadly not enough of them have stood up to be counted these last few years as it is a thankless task standing up & fighting for quality patient care. Believe me, I was exhausted by it.
I called the doctors surgery last week and was told I would be called back later that day by a nurse. The nurse went home ill, so I got no call. Later that day I was told to call back in the morning to arrange another call. This time I did get the call back and was told I needed to see the doctor (something I already knew). The first appointment was a week on Thursday.. When I arrived, the appointment had not been recorded on their system. I said “But I made this appointment last week”——-I was met with the usual officious stare that indicated if I were to say anymore about this I would be “causing offence” or some other such feeble wokery. So as I normally do, I remained calm and asked “How shall we resolve this then?” The receptionist said she could squeeze me in the next morning, but then low and behold when I got home I received a phone call saying that my appointment for that day was correct after all and that it had been entered under the wrong name, but I could come in at 5 pm if I wanted to. ———-I… Read more »
The Government should ban these ludicrous non-jobs.
Newly appointed Director of Lived Experience at first day on the job:
“What’ve I gotta do again?”
If I recall correctly, a short while ago there were the ever present warnings that if the NHS didn’t get more money it was about to collapse. I don’t recall any threats of strikes, however.
Then the government said it was willing to pump more money into the NHS, provided some of the top heavy layers of management were removed.
Suddenly, one of the highest paid trade union official in the UK, Pat Cullen, the head of the Royal College of Nursing, was calling for strike action.
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In 1984 a KGB defector, Yuri Bezmenov, wrote a book, “Love Letter To America”, in which he outlined KGB operations against the West. The book is quite short and is now available to read free online.
In the book Bezmenov revealed that the KGB spent only 20% of their budget on actual spying. The other 80% was spent on supporting groups to undermine Western culture.
This would be done in four stages, taking about 40 years, the first being the demoralisation of the West, which would take fifteen to twenty years and would include:-
Does any of that sound familiar?
The KGB no longer exists, of course. Remind me, whatever happened to it’s last chief?
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