To consider working for ATOS?

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I am a mental health nurse and have been qualified 14 years. I work in a particularly challenging area supporting clients with emotionally unstable personality disorders in the community. I have periods of poor mental health myself and right now I am exhausted with my job. I feel I am too emotionally fragile myself to continue with the level of stress this job brings. A couple of people have suggested looking into working for ATOS as a disability/ PIP assessor and I am wondering if I would be being unreasonable to consider this? What are people's thoughts?

. The lying hounds. Did you appeal, unborn

YANBU as I see where you're coming from. There are many HCPs like you who go into working for ATOS/Capita etc thinking they can help people, reform the system, make it fair etc etc etc. They can't. The system is rigged, it isn't fair, and the HCPs are pawns in the system. I can guarantee if you have a conscience being an assessor will be an awful, stressful experience, and on that basis would advise against it.

It's a very demoralising process applying, especially if you get knocked back. always appeal, though. 70% of those refused their award get it on appeal.

Gosh thank you for all this information. I absolutely cannot imagine coping if the system really is as biased against the claimant as it would appear from this.