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Post by Dan Dare on Dec 18, 2022 8:09:26 GMT
Red is going to love this, the job - which pays £110-115K - is based in Stafford.
Rod Liddle has a good time with it in the Sunday Times:
… I divined this from the prospectus, which was a lengthy dissertation of incoherence, flatulence and fashionable drivel. For example, I would be expected to “be responsible for establishing and maintaining the highest levels of Lived Experience Practice and amplifying the voice of those using services within decision-making at all levels of the organisation”. Fine — I can do that, even though I don’t know what it actually means.
The description continued: “The aim is for this post to provide leadership for lived experience practice; bring the experiential lens to Trust Board decision-making, and facilitate the cultural changes needed to infuse and propagate best practice . . .” And so on. Any wiser? Me neither.
Better still, the post appeared to require no qualifications whatsoever — no experience (other than, uh, that lived experience), no NVQs, no degree and no A-levels. The only thing it did demand was that I must have experienced “power imbalance” in my life.
The salary is £110,000-£115,000. That’s what I call a decent whack. You nurses, emptying those catheters and rubbing liniment into an octogenarian’s nutsack while complaining about your wages — you are being taken for mugs. There are loads of “lived experience” jobs up for grabs in the NHS, including trainee lived experience assistants (nope, not kidding), all paying a hell of a lot more than you get, no qualifications necessary. Not to mention the various heads and deputy heads of “diversity”, the grandest of which has a salary not far short of double the prime minister’s. As John Lydon once memorably put it: “Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?”
According to the news programmes, this is a time of acute privation, with the poor scrabbling in wheelie bins for half-eaten kebabs and pensioners freezing to death in their living rooms because they can’t afford to put the heating on. We are enjoined, sagely, to cut our coat according to our cloth. But none of this applies to our government or the institutions that rule our lives. They have no intention of cutting down on cloth. They are busy ordering more cloth, plus shoulder pads and silk lining.
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Post by Toreador on Dec 18, 2022 9:52:50 GMT
Red is going to love this, the job - which pays £110-115K - is based in Stafford.
Rod Liddle has a good time with it in the Sunday Times:
… I divined this from the prospectus, which was a lengthy dissertation of incoherence, flatulence and fashionable drivel. For example, I would be expected to “be responsible for establishing and maintaining the highest levels of Lived Experience Practice and amplifying the voice of those using services within decision-making at all levels of the organisation”. Fine — I can do that, even though I don’t know what it actually means.
The description continued: “The aim is for this post to provide leadership for lived experience practice; bring the experiential lens to Trust Board decision-making, and facilitate the cultural changes needed to infuse and propagate best practice . . .” And so on. Any wiser? Me neither.
Better still, the post appeared to require no qualifications whatsoever — no experience (other than, uh, that lived experience), no NVQs, no degree and no A-levels. The only thing it did demand was that I must have experienced “power imbalance” in my life.
The salary is £110,000-£115,000. That’s what I call a decent whack. You nurses, emptying those catheters and rubbing liniment into an octogenarian’s nutsack while complaining about your wages — you are being taken for mugs. There are loads of “lived experience” jobs up for grabs in the NHS, including trainee lived experience assistants (nope, not kidding), all paying a hell of a lot more than you get, no qualifications necessary. Not to mention the various heads and deputy heads of “diversity”, the grandest of which has a salary not far short of double the prime minister’s. As John Lydon once memorably put it: “Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?”
According to the news programmes, this is a time of acute privation, with the poor scrabbling in wheelie bins for half-eaten kebabs and pensioners freezing to death in their living rooms because they can’t afford to put the heating on. We are enjoined, sagely, to cut our coat according to our cloth. But none of this applies to our government or the institutions that rule our lives. They have no intention of cutting down on cloth. They are busy ordering more cloth, plus shoulder pads and silk lining.
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Post by johnofgwent on Dec 18, 2022 15:30:29 GMT
There is, I would say, one, and only one, reason for such a position.
A good few years ago I had a conversation with a particular individual with a reputation for sorting out various problems mainly in the chemical and petroleum industry.
He recounted the time an enthusiastic project manager wished to tackle a particular problem and proposed investment in a new facility based on a pilot plant
This chap and two of his colleagues leaned forward and asked what solution this chap had found to the production of a particular chemical as a side effect
To which the applicant admitted hevhad not yet pushed the polit plant that far ahead
And was then fairly firmly told ‘well, when you do, and you find this issue, come back and tell us how you solved it, because the three of us tried for five years…..’
The point being such a post is clearly there to suggest those repeating the clusterfucks of history should recall the last time it was done…
I can’t see such a person being listened to myself
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Post by Red Rackham on Dec 19, 2022 10:32:43 GMT
It's a disgraceful waste of money. Has anyone established exactly what a 'director of lived experience' actually does? Actually I feel suitably qualified I've had 'lived experiences', havent we all? Perhaps I should give em a bell. Discuss my work-life balance and the obvious mental health issues that will arise if I'm not on the golf course by 12 noon every Friday.
This nonsense is typical of a publicly funded organisation who seem determined to promote the virtues of woke, and I have to say no one should be surprised. We are after all talking about an organisation who feels the need to employ no fewar than 800 diversity and inclusion officers and paints pedestrian crossings in rainbow colours.
I feel sure the religion of woke will die out, and this is woke. Perhaps not just yet, but it will.
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Post by dappy on Dec 19, 2022 10:54:56 GMT
If you don’t know what this role does, how have you formed the opinion that it is a disgraceful waste of money?
It might be - I don’t know what the role is either - but am aware that the UK Health Service does need to move towards preventing illness not just treating it. Maybe this is what this is.
You don’t have to be outraged just because the populist establishment tell you to be.
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Post by Dan Dare on Dec 19, 2022 11:35:40 GMT
The full job description is available at the link in the OP.
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Post by dappy on Dec 19, 2022 12:26:03 GMT
Personally not an “issue” I care about enough to invest the time. If you want to be outraged however and express such outrage forcefully,, you really are obligated to do so
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Post by Pacifico on Dec 19, 2022 17:57:42 GMT
Personally not an “issue” I care about enough to invest the time. If you want to be outraged however and express such outrage forcefully,, you really are obligated to do so as long as you dont get outraged the next time someone from the NHS claims that they are short of money.. |
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